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[Bug]: redact_sensitive_text does not recognise Discord bot tokens Open

area/auth bug comp/agent P3 platform/discord type/security

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117848 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
[Bug]: tools/neutts_synth.py discards the real exception on a failed neutts import, always prints the same hardcoded message Open

P3 tool/tts type/bug

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 90/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117794 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
[Bug]: context-limit error parsing has no pattern for llama.cpp's "context size (N tokens)" phrasing Open

area/compression area/local-models area/sessions comp/agent duplicate P2 sweeper:risk-session-state type/bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117793 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 21, 2026
[Bug]: classify_items.py cron script never includes its own required JSON schema in the prompt Open

comp/cron P2 sweeper:risk-automation type/bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117792 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 21, 2026
[Bug]: TASK_COMPLETION_GUIDANCE has no guard against fabricating a TOOL CALL when no matching tool exists Open

comp/agent P2 provider/qwen tool/terminal type/bug

Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 90/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117791 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
[Perf]: the capability epoch counts archived skills, so archiving one rebuilds every Bot Chat's system prompt Open

area/sessions comp/agent P2 tool/skills type/perf

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117788 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
[Bug]: Named custom provider on a local-server alias shares the ambient endpoint's quarantine key Open

area/config area/local-models comp/agent P2 provider/ollama type/bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117759 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
web: `npm run build -w web` always fails — `vite.config.ts` does not typecheck (TS18048) Open

comp/dashboard P3 type/bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 86/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117722 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
[Bug]: Telegram inline picker accepts negative offsets and serves the catalog tail Open

comp/plugins P3 platform/telegram type/bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 90/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117717 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
[Bug]: notebooks/06_visualization_quickstart.ipynb fails: SHAPVisualizer.plot_waterfall raises IndexError Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100

bancolombia/sentinel#23 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[Bug]: RRCFDetector.fit()/predict() require pandas input despite array-like docstring Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

bancolombia/sentinel#21 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[Bug]: examples/custom_parser_example.py fails on Windows (hardcoded /tmp path) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

bancolombia/sentinel#20 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
fix(contracts): ProfileRow is missing previous_names, so profiles.list violates its own result contract Open

area/profiles comp/tui P2 type/bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117696 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
test md Open

CI

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100

sympy/sympy#30547 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
quickjs: support `timeout=None` (no per-call deadline) in `CodeInterpreterMiddleware` Open

integration:quickjs org:external priority:backlog topic:code-interpreter topic:middleware type:feature

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100

langchain-ai/deepagents#6450 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
OpenAISamplingHandler drops ToolResultContent when a user message's list content also carries text/image blocks Open

bug client

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

PrefectHQ/fastmcp#5182 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
last-mile drop-off on this SKILL.md Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100

wshobson/agents#717 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Agent: empty B_action_dependencies entry ([[0], []]) fails with a batch-size error Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

infer-actively/pymdp#454 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
cron: _owner_is_live() rejects a live process on an exact start-time compare, marking running executions unknown Open

comp/cron P2 type/bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117505 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
tl.feature_signature returns an object io.validate rejects Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

scverse/mantispy#103 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[Feature] Make RAG UPLOAD_EXTS configurable via environment variable Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

unslothai/unsloth#11385 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Account history records the opposite of what happened when notifications are turned on or off Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 94/100

fossasia/eventyay#5786 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
kanban show --json omits max_runtime_seconds, so a runtime cap cannot be verified from the CLI Open

comp/cli comp/cron P3 type/bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117433 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[BUG] examples/tau2: _clean_messages(for_user=True) deletes the user simulator's own tool calls and results, breaking the telecom domain Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

areal-project/AReaL#1741 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Silent smart-approval failure mode: empty-verdict guardian responses log at DEBUG only (or not at all), invisible at default log levels Open

comp/tools P2 type/bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117428 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
homewizard: Watermeter total usage sensor suggests ft³ regardless of configured unit system Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

home-assistant/core#182792 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[Bot] Ad/Parking Redirect Report Open

report

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

emmabostian/developer-portfolios#4233 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
stubtest flags PEP 661 `sentinel` defaults, but not `object()` markers Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

python/mypy#22013 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[lldb] TestSynthesizedPropertyAccessor failed with an unrelated PR Open

lldb test-suite

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

llvm/llvm-project#224948 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[BUG] GeometricMeanAbsoluteError class drops the zero-error epsilon guard, diverging from the function and its own docstring Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

sktime/sktime#11223 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Fix it so long strings don't cause the page to get wider on mobile Open

Affects: Mobile/Responsive Affects: UI Module: CSS Needs: Breakdown Needs: Lead Needs: Triage Type: Bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

internetarchive/openlibrary#13683 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
feat: add originalUriBaseIds to SARIF output for GitHub Code Scanning file links Open

enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

yunaremaia/driftcheck#246 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
fix(cron): expired one-shot schedules can incorrectly retain synthetic Slack thread origins Open

comp/cron P2 platform/slack sweeper:risk-message-delivery type/bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117357 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Docs say approvals.mode defaults to smart, but code falls back to manual when the key is absent Open

area/config comp/tools P2 sweeper:risk-compatibility type/bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117341 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
bbh: declared dataset_samples is 250 but the default task evaluates 6509 Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 92/100

UKGovernmentBEIS/inspect_evals#2487 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
apps: declared dataset_samples is 5000 but the default task evaluates 3000 Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 94/100

UKGovernmentBEIS/inspect_evals#2486 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
pedalboard riscv64 support Open

wheel

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

riseproject-dev/python-wheels#2134 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
bug: _parse_cargo_toml uses break instead of continue — silently skips dependencies after section headers Open

bug good-first-issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

yunaremaia/taintrace#110 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
bug: execution_count incremented twice per check() call — max_executions enforced at half limit Open

bug security

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 90/100

yunaremaia/agent-guard#112 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
--workers N loses TCP_NODELAY: every keep-alive request past the first costs ~43ms on Linux Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

Kludex/uvicorn#3149 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Telegram typing indicator can stay on forever while the agent is idle (pre-delivery stop missing) Open

comp/gateway P2 platform/telegram sweeper:risk-message-delivery sweeper:risk-session-state type/bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117300 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Runtime-added observers receive no frame events when the observer set is empty Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

pipecat-ai/pipecat#5860 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
The CI data cache has no size budget, and the 10 GB limit fails quietly Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

scverse/mantispy#95 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Multi-plate profiles are read one file at a time Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

scverse/mantispy#93 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Security gate blocks any fork PR touching a .py file that contains an ANSI escape byte Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 92/100

huggingface/transformers-ci#125 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Three help/output tests pass or fail depending on import order and TERM, never in CI Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 86/100

dynamist/phabfive#414 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[Perf]: the gateway-identity check forks `ps` on macOS when psutil (a core dependency) answers 190x faster Open

comp/gateway P3 type/perf

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117270 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Hindsight local_embedded: TypeError 'module' object is not callable in _new_embedded_client Open

area/memory comp/plugins P3 tool/memory type/bug

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 90/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117266 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Remote backend probe leaks user-identifying metadata (user, home, cwd) Open

comp/agent P3 type/security

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

NousResearch/hermes-agent#117262 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
composition_dispersion is not a reserved uns name, and hit_calling's Raises is out of date Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

scverse/mantispy#91 · Opened Sep 20, 2026

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