# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Fix auto-title truncated JSON fragment bug

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a bug where session auto-titling produces raw JSON fragments when model responses are truncated, particularly at low token limits. The fixes reject or discard truncated structured output and prevent malformed titles from being stored.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #113960. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #113960 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-113960`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.67`: the share of member pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. `1.00` means every pair is linked.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #83903: Auto-title returns raw JSON fragments when max_tokens=64 truncates model response

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#113960: fix(aux): session auto-titles land from reasoning_content and never store truncated JSON fragments (#82291, #83903, salvage #96122 #83985 #85424)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/title_generator.py`, `tests/agent/test_title_generator.py`
- **#96122: fix(title): reject truncated structured output**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `eff18764ff1`, `#113960`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #113960 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-17`.
- Subsystem: `agent`