chat -c silent failure and --create-if-missing flag
Cluster 86794. Data as of
Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #87706 on 16 Aug 2026. Check it covers your case.
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- Known?
- Yes. 3 related items grouped here, 1 issue already closed.
- Fix event
- A fix was merged to main in PR #87706. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
- Tracker
- The maintainers' tracker marks this
resolved, deciding PR #87706. That is separate from the fix event. - Still open
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These members address the behavior of chat -c when no session matches a given title, proposing it should fail loudly on stderr rather than silently no-op, and introducing a --create-if-missing flag as an alternative.
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Open PRs0
Fixes on record
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#87706 fix(cli): chat -c fails loudly on stderr and gains --create-if-missing (salvage #86812)
files:
contributors/emails/[email protected],hermes_cli/_parser.py,hermes_cli/main.py,tests/hermes_cli/test_chat_c_fail_loudly.py
1 PR closed without merging
From the close comments: merged via another change 1
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#86812 fix(cli): chat -c fails loudly on stderr and gains --create-if-missing · merged via another change →
#87706,#86794
Closed issues · 1
- Closed#86794chat -c "<title>" silently no-ops when no session matches (fail loudly / --create-if-missing)
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- Merged PRs
- #87706
- Closed issues
- 1
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- 1 PR closed without merging
- Fix link checked
- 16 Aug 2026