# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Surface correct stage and stderr during update failures

## Open now

- 1 issue, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #85840: hermes update: uv/pip stderr swallowed — Python-deps failure misreported as "Git update failed"

These items address error reporting during the update process, where the failing stage was misattributed and stderr output from uv/pip and other tools was not surfaced to the user.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Open related issues

- #85840: hermes update: uv/pip stderr swallowed — Python-deps failure misreported as "Git update failed"

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#85871: fix(install): name the failing stage in hermes update instead of always "Git update failed"**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `057dcdf236`, `eac3f645ef`, `#85840`, `#87304`, `#2`, `#1`
- **#85944: fix(update): surface actual failure stage and stderr**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#85840`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `hermes_cli`