# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Cron fire-fence deadlock and false ownership-loss corrections

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These changes address a bug where cron jobs running longer than ~60 seconds deadlock on their own fire fence, producing false \`'ownership lost'\` or \`'interrupted by shutdown'\` errors. The corrections separate fire-fence contention from genuine claim ownership loss so long-running deliveries are no longer incorrectly marked as \`failed\`.

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 3 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #109310. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #109310 (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-109310`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.40`: 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

- #100401: \[Bug\]: cron — fire-claim heartbeat deadlocks on its own run's fence, killing every job that runs >60s as "Interrupted by shutdown"

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#109310: fix(cron): long fenced deliveries no longer recorded as failed 'ownership lost' (#108341, #100401; salvage #106745)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `cron/jobs.py`, `tests/cron/test_claim_job_for_fire.py`
- **#100418: fix(cron): don't treat a busy fire fence as lost claim ownership**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `9a60a7f3167e`
- **#109003: fix(cron): separate fire-fence contention from fire-claim ownership loss**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `9a60a7f3167e`
- **#109083: fix(cron): don't wait on the fire fence to renew a live fire claim**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `9a60a7f3167e`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #109310 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-12`.