# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Delegated child agent watchdog and streaming fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address false-positive stale/dead detection killing delegated child agents during reasoning model thinking pauses, and related streaming behavior for delegated children and cron turns. The work involves bounding watchdog thresholds and restoring inline streaming to prevent premature termination.

## 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 #100906. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #100906 (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: `unresolved`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #100260: \[Bug\]: direct_api_call stale watchdog kills delegated children during reasoning-model thinking — silence is normal for non-streaming + reasoning, threshold raise only postpones death

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#100906: fix(agent): delegated children and cron turns stream again (inline, no worker) — z.ai 524 / #100260 child deaths**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/chat_completion_helpers.py`, `tests/run_agent/test_direct_contexts_stream_inline.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/configuration.md`
- **#100385: fix(delegate): bound reasoning children without stale false-kills**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `c5b99a3ee5ee1fc21de45904cb975f65fce201ec`, `#100906`, `#100260`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #100906 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-02`.