# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Gateway auto-resume recovery note persistence issue

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These members address a bug where the gateway's auto-resume mechanism incorrectly persists recovery notes or empty user messages, which then triggers the pre-call sanitizer on subsequent turns.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #89558. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #89558 (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-89558`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #86580: Gateway auto-resume persists an empty user message that triggers Pre-call sanitizer on every subsequent turn

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#89558: fix(gateway): auto-resume stops leaving an empty user row that re-trips the sanitizer every turn (#86580, salvage #86789)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `gateway/run.py`, `tests/gateway/test_restart_resume_pending.py`
- **#86788: fix(gateway): persist resume recovery notes**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
- **#86789: fix(gateway): persist resume recovery notes**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#89558`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #89558 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-18`.
- Subsystem: `gateway`