# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Fix WebSocket idle connection false-disconnect issues

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #101160: fix(buzz): read-idle watchdog reconnects every 300s on healthy quiet relays (silence treated as death)
- PR #101166: fix(buzz): keep quiet healthy WebSocket connections alive

These items address a bug where quiet but healthy WebSocket relay connections were being incorrectly treated as dead and reconnected unnecessarily. Fixes involve probing liveness on read-idle before reconnecting and suppressing related retry noise.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Open related issues

- #101160: fix(buzz): read-idle watchdog reconnects every 300s on healthy quiet relays (silence treated as death)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#101166: fix(buzz): keep quiet healthy WebSocket connections alive**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `254158f453`, `33c9b1d779`, `22ea374686b685e9e012ada609d57f31ed5406e1`, `#133331`, `#101166`, `#112049`
  - files: `plugins/platforms/buzz/adapter.py`, `tests/gateway/test_buzz_websocket.py`
- **#101258: fix(buzz): probe liveness on read idle before reconnecting; fix(gateway): stop empty-response retry noise on chats (#101160, #101138)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#98097`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `gateway`