# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Empty-response scaffolding persisting in session state

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #92877: \[Bug\]: Empty-response recovery scaffolding persists to session store after interruption → session permanently returns (empty)
- PR #92887: fix(agent): keep resumed sessions from repeating empty responses
- PR #126439: fix(agent): a finished turn hands back history without retry scaffolding

These items concern a bug where recovery scaffolding for empty agent responses is incorrectly saved to the session store, causing resumed sessions to repeatedly return empty responses. The group covers the bug report and related fixes targeting how finished turns and resumed sessions handle this scaffolding.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 2 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 0 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #92877: \[Bug\]: Empty-response recovery scaffolding persists to session store after interruption → session permanently returns (empty)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#92887: fix(agent): keep resumed sessions from repeating empty responses**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `ebcca6085a`
  - files: `hermes_state.py`, `tests/hermes_state/test_empty_recovery_scaffolding_repair.py`
- **#126439: fix(agent): a finished turn hands back history without retry scaffolding**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
  - files: `agent/conversation_loop.py`, `agent/session_persistence.py`, `tests/agent/test_empty_response_recovery_persistence.py`

## Fix status

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