NousResearch/hermes-agent

Corrupt state.db silently accepting or misreporting writes

Cluster 97940. Data as of

Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #99652 on 31 Aug 2026. Check it covers your case.

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A fix was merged to main in PR #99652. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
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These issues concern a structural corruption condition in state.db where writes are incorrectly accepted or misdiagnosed rather than rejected, and log messages falsely indicate success. The work focuses on detecting corruption early and halting further writes to a corrupt database.

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  • #99652 fix(state): structurally corrupt state.db no longer keeps accepting writes (#97940, salvage #96038)

    merged to main

    files: contributors/emails/[redacted:email], gateway/session.py, hermes_state.py, tests/gateway/test_session.py, tests/state/test_fts_runtime_rebuild.py

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: done elsewhere 1

  • #98090 fix(state): stop structurally corrupt databases from accepting writes · done elsewhere → #99652, #96038, #76280
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#97940SQLITE_CORRUPT on canonical B-trees is misdiagnosed as FTS corruption; logs claim 'canonical message rows are preserved' while transcript writes silently fail
How this cluster was grouped
  • Link evidence (structural links throughout): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
  • 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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31 Aug 2026

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