# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Nested Hermes terminal working directory and TERMINAL_CWD handling

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

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.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #143988. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #143988 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-143988`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #95078: \[Bug\]: nested Hermes inherits stale TERMINAL_CWD instead of explicit subprocess working directory

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#143988: fix(cli): a hermes chat started from an agent's terminal runs in its launch directory (#95078)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `hermes_cli/cli_config_load.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_cli_config_load_launch_cwd.py`
- **#95093: fix(terminal): pin the local run-env TERMINAL_CWD to the per-command cwd**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `dc8e416b34`, `#95078`, `#143988`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #143988 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-24`.
- Subsystem: `environments`