NousResearch/hermes-agent

Reduce shell process spawning in file read/write ops

Cluster 95161. Data as of 2026-10-30 11:57 UTC

Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #101599 on 2 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.

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These items all concern a performance improvement to collapse multiple shell process invocations in read_file and write_file into a single round-trip. The work appears to span an original issue and at least one related or salvaged pull request addressing the same optimization.

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#101599 perf(file-ops): collapse read_file/write_file shell probes into one round-trip (salvage #95160)

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files: contributors/emails/[redacted:email], tests/tools/file_ops_fakes.py, tests/tools/test_file_operations.py, tests/tools/test_file_operations_edge_cases.py, tests/tools/test_file_ops_single_roundtrip.py, tools/file_operations.py

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#95160 perf(file-ops): collapse read_file/write_file shell probes into one round-trip · merged via another change → 6a2b3f1, 9fbb3b7, d3275ac, 47a8f61, e1c0c4b, #101599

Closed issues · 1

Closed#95161[Perf]: read_file spawns 4–5 shell processes per call; one compound command (or a native local read) does the same work

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Merged PRs: #101599
Closed issues: 1
Attempts: 1 PR closed without merging
Fix link checked: 2 Sep 2026

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