# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Corrupt state.db silently accepting or misreporting writes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

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.

## 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 #99652. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #99652 (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-99652`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #97940: SQLITE_CORRUPT on canonical B-trees is misdiagnosed as FTS corruption; logs claim 'canonical message rows are preserved' while transcript writes silently fail

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#99652: fix(state): structurally corrupt state.db no longer keeps accepting writes (#97940, salvage #96038)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `gateway/session.py`, `hermes_state.py`, `tests/gateway/test_session.py`, `tests/state/test_fts_runtime_rebuild.py`
- **#98090: fix(state): stop structurally corrupt databases from accepting writes**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#99652`, `#96038`, `#76280`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #99652 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-31`.