# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Delegated guardrail halts misreported as completed

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #102694: Delegated guardrail termination is reported as completed
- PR #102701: fix(delegation): report guardrail halts as failures
- PR #102705: fix(delegate): classify hard guardrail halts as failed delegation status (#102694)

These issues and fixes address a bug where guardrail-halted children in delegation are incorrectly reported as completed rather than as failures. Multiple fixes attempt to correct the status classification for guardrail terminations, including cases where \`failed\` delegation status should be assigned to hard guardrail halts.

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 2 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 2 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.40`: 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

- #102694: Delegated guardrail termination is reported as completed

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#102701: fix(delegation): report guardrail halts as failures**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `1baf9db505eb0a6fb0301978a795395d29d09e83`, `#102705`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_delegate.py`, `tests/tools/test_delegate_output_schema.py`, `tools/delegate_tool.py`, `tools/delegate_tool_child_run.py`
- **#102705: fix(delegate): classify hard guardrail halts as failed delegation status (#102694)**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `stale_abandoned`; implication `active`; refs `#102701`, `#102694`, `#102701`
  - files: `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `tests/tools/test_delegate_guardrail_halt.py`, `tools/delegate_tool.py`
- **#102718: fix: Delegated guardrail termination is reported as completed (#102694)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#102701`, `#102694`, `#102705`
- **#102862: fix(delegate): guardrail-halted children are not reported as completed**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#102701`, `#102694`, `#102701`, `#102705`, `#102718`

## Fix status

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