NousResearch/hermes-agent

Fix: update sweep impostor and foreign-home backend bugs

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #95641 on 26 Aug 2026. Check it covers your case.

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These items address a bug where hermes update could respawn backends belonging to a foreign HERMES_HOME, causing port conflicts and crash loops, and ensure the stale-backend sweep no longer incorrectly kills SSH-owned backends.

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  • #95641 fix(update): the stale-backend sweep no longer kills SSH-owned backends or respawns foreign-home impostors (#92012 + #94030)

    merged to main

    files: hermes_cli/dashboard_procs.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_update_stale_dashboard.py

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: merged via another change 1

  • #94044 fix(update): never respawn backends from a foreign HERMES_HOME · merged via another change → 57309c0, #95641, #94030, #90030
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#94030[Bug]: hermes update respawns foreign-HERMES_HOME serve argv-only — impostor steals the port, supervised backend crash-loops (EADDRINUSE)
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