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Kanban worker liveness and progress separation fixes

NousResearch/hermes-agent · cluster 100971 · cron

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3 open items. Fix attempted, not merged.

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1open issue
2open PRs
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1 issue and 2 PRs.

These items address a flaw where worker heartbeats refresh on any activity, preventing stale detection of looping workers that make no real progress. The work involves separating liveness signals from progress tracking and bounding worker runtime by estimates.

Open issues1

  • Issue#100971Kanban worker heartbeat refreshes on any activity, so a looping worker never goes stale — only max_runtime_seconds ends it

Open PRs2

  • PR#101014fix(kanban): reclaim looping workers that stay live without progress
  • PR#134830fix(kanban): separate worker liveness from progress; bound runtime by estimate
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  • Pairwise link density 0.67: the share of item 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.

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