# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Gateway startup watchdog disarm regression fix

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A regression caused the startup watchdog to kill healthy gateways roughly every 25 minutes because the disarm call was missing from the s6 handoff point in gateway/run.py. The cluster covers the bug report, the fix, and accompanying tests.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #115309. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #115309 (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-115309`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #102000: Startup watchdog kills a healthy gateway every ~25 min — disarm site missing from \`gateway/run.py\` (regression between 593aa74c and e629c900/latest)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#115309: Startup watchdog no longer kills a gateway that handed off to s6 supervision (#102000, salvage #102024)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `hermes_cli/gateway.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_gateway_s6_dispatch.py`
- **#102668: test(gateway): guard startup-watchdog disarm at loop-confirmed-live (#102000)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#102000`, `#102024`
- **#102703: fix(gateway): disarm startup watchdog at s6 handoff (#102000)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #115309 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-18`.