NousResearch/hermes-agent

Nested Hermes terminal working directory and TERMINAL_CWD handling

Cluster 95078 · environments. Data as of

Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #143988 on 24 Oct 2026. Check it covers your case.

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The members appear to share one theme: a nested or child Hermes process may use a stale TERMINAL_CWD rather than the explicit launch or per-command working directory. They include a bug report and two fix-oriented changes touching CLI chat and terminal run environments; their outcomes are not stated here.

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  • #143988 fix(cli): a hermes chat started from an agent's terminal runs in its launch directory (#95078)

    merged to main

    files: hermes_cli/cli_config_load.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_cli_config_load_launch_cwd.py

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: done elsewhere 1

  • #95093 fix(terminal): pin the local run-env TERMINAL_CWD to the per-command cwd · done elsewhere → dc8e416, #95078, #143988
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#95078[Bug]: nested Hermes inherits stale TERMINAL_CWD instead of explicit subprocess working directory
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  • Pairwise link density 0.67: the share of item 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.

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