# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Unachievable goals misclassified as done in kanban

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A bug causes the goal_judge to return a 'done' verdict for genuinely unachievable goals instead of marking them as blocked. The members address detecting and correctly routing unachievable goals to a blocked state rather than silently completing them.

## 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 #101278. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #101278 (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-101278`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #100954: goal_judge's "genuinely unachievable" branch still returns verdict=done, so an impossible goal completes silently instead of blocking (kanban_complete gate can't tell the two apart)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#101278: fix(kanban): unachievable goals land in blocked, not done (#100954, salvage #101108)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/itsflownium@users.noreply.github.com`, `hermes_cli/goals.py`, `hermes_cli/kanban.py`, `hermes_cli/loops.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_goals.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_goal_mode.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_loops.py`, `tools/kanban_tools.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/goals.md`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/kanban.md`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/loops.md`
- **#101108: fix(kanban): judge unachievable goals as blocked, never done**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `5c6cbbc1be`, `#101278`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #101278 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-02`.