# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Kanban quota-wall exit code misclassification bug

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern a defect where rate-limit or quota exhaustion causes Kanban workers to exit with the wrong code (75 or clean-exit) rather than the correct sentinel, because the quota-wall condition is misidentified as a protocol violation. The work involves diagnosing the misclassification and fixing exit-code inference when failure reason metadata is absent.

## 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 #112500. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #112500 (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-112500`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #101800: Rate-limit exit sentinel is unreachable: quota exhaustion is misclassified as a clean-exit protocol violation and crashloops the board

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#112500: Kanban workers on a rate-limit/billing wall exit 75 instead of rc=0 protocol violations (#101800, #48000, salvage #110917)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `cli.py`, `contributors/emails/dmelkk-secondbrain@users.noreply.github.com`, `hermes_cli/cli_chat_turn_mixin.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_single_query_exit_contract.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/kanban.md`
- **#102318: fix(cli): infer quota wall for kanban exit code when failure_reason is missing (fixes #101800)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `1b2a75fa27dc8`, `#112500`, `#110917`, `#97623`, `#82154`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #112500 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-16`.