# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Avoid caching empty successful search responses

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #95516: Do not cache successful-but-empty web search results
- PR #95527: fix(web): stop caching successful-but-empty search responses

These members address a bug where successful but empty search results were being TTL-cached, and propose or implement a fix to prevent that behavior.

## TL;DR

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #95516: Do not cache successful-but-empty web search results

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#95527: fix(web): stop caching successful-but-empty search responses**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#96113`, `#95527`, `#95516`, `#85660`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_web_result_cache.py`, `tools/web_result_cache.py`
- **#95539: fix(web): don't TTL-cache successful-but-empty search responses (#95516)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#95527`, `#95516`

## Fix status

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