Bug Description

When running Hermes in an interactive session on a Windows machine via WSL/Linux bridging to a physical host storage drive (e.g., an external or secondary partition like E:), intermittent connection layer dropped states occur. Specifically, the API client environment frequently encounters [SSL] record layer failure (_ssl.c:2590) and general APIConnectionError exceptions.

When these network drops fire mid-stream during or immediately after a file manipulation command, the running instance resets. Because the environment does not explicitly flush the kernel-level write buffers to the hardware disk immediately after file appends, the local file cache tracking is abandoned, resulting in data silent rollbacks where recent session summaries are completely wiped out of Markdown storage logs (e.g., session_summaries.md), rolling them back to stale state variations from prior days.

Steps to Reproduce

Configure Hermes on a Windows/WSL layout to interactively modify logging files positioned on a secondary Windows partition mounted under Linux paths (e.g., /mnt/e/Hermes/AI_BRAIN/...).

Run a command that appends multi-line text blocks to log targets (e.g., standard session closure triggers).

Introduce or simulate an unstable internet connection drop that disrupts communication mid-transaction with the remote provider endpoint (https://api.x.ai/v1).

Look for network exceptions: [SSL] record layer failure or Connection error.

Terminate or exit the terminal session wrapper.

Open a fresh terminal environment instance and run /mnt/e/.../close_session.sh or a command to read back the log tracking updates (Hermes, load my morning timeline).

Expected Behavior

Any text safely outputted to the prompt line as successfully appended should be hard-committed to disk. If a network disruption triggers an API instance reboot, the pre-existing file modifications executed before the connection failure should remain physically locked on the host storage environment.

Actual Behavior

The cloud-based provider drops context tracking upon connection failure, resetting the active screen cache state. Concurrently, because the write operations are buffered by the operating system kernel and lack a hard sync commit call, the modifications evaporate when the interactive session drops, resetting the target Markdown tracking databases back 2 to 3 chronological updates.

⚠️ API call failed (attempt 1/3): ReadError 🔌 Provider: xai-oauth Model: grok-4.3 🌐 Endpoint: https://api.x.ai/v1 📝 Error: [SSL] record layer failure (_ssl.c:2590) ⏳ Retrying in 3.0s (attempt 1/3)...

⚠️ API call failed (attempt 1/3): APIConnectionError 🔌 Provider: xai-oauth Model: grok-4.3 🌐 Endpoint: https://api.x.ai/v1 📝 Error: Connection error.

Affected Component

Agent Core (conversation loop, context compression, memory)

Messaging Platform (if gateway-related)

No response

Debug Report

Report       https://paste.rs/gPItE
  agent.log    https://paste.rs/aQ8xt
  gateway.log  https://paste.rs/Uwj8a

Operating System

Windows 11 running WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux / Ubuntu 24.04 translation layer)

Python Version

Python 3.14.4

Hermes Version

Hermes Agent v0.14.0 (2026.5.16), Python: 3.11.15 OpenAI SDK: 2.24.0

Additional Logs / Traceback (optional)

Root Cause Analysis (optional)

The pipeline relies on cloud agent logic executing edits through a local terminal wrapper. Because disk write optimizations under Linux/WSL delay committing data out of volatile system memory buffers to physical partition sectors, file appends are left in a temporary state. If an unhandled network layer crash interrupts the process, the active shell cache drops without closing the streams smoothly, abandoning unwritten files and creating chronological data loss.

Proposed Fix (optional)

A successful workaround was implemented by explicitly patching the logging wrapper scripts to insert an immediate, low-level file system synchronization flush command directly following any file mutation instructions: Bash echo -e "\n$TIMESTAMP | Session ID: $SESSION_ID | $LOG_MSG" >> "$SUMMARY_FILE" echo -e "\n[$TIMESTAMP] Session closed via close_session.sh. | Summary: $LOG_MSG" >> "$LOG_FILE"

Force immediate hardware flush to host drive (prevents rollback when terminal context drops)

sync

Introducing deterministic sync hooks across core logging subroutines ensures the OS forces data to disk sectors instantly, insulating structural storage updates against runtime context exceptions or unstable connections.

Are you willing to submit a PR for this?

• I'd like to fix this myself and submit a PR