# NousResearch/hermes-agent · TUI duplicate adjacent message rendering bug

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #88362: \[Bug\] TUI: user and assistant messages both render duplicated (pairwise) in long sessions
- PR #88412: fix(tui): drop exact adjacent replay of a plain transcript message

A bug causes user and assistant transcript messages to appear duplicated in long sessions. The related fixes address deduplication of adjacent identical rows in the TUI transcript view.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 1 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #88362: \[Bug\] TUI: user and assistant messages both render duplicated (pairwise) in long sessions

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#88412: fix(tui): drop exact adjacent replay of a plain transcript message**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#59634`, `#59673`
  - files: `ui-tui/src/lib/messages.test.ts`, `ui-tui/src/lib/messages.ts`
- **#88423: fix(tui): dedupe adjacent user/assistant transcript rows**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#88412`, `#88362`

## Fix status

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