# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Bot Chat DM delivery and ownership routing fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address how local direct messages and cron events are routed to an active Bot Chat owner, correcting cases where delivery was refused due to incorrect tab or lease ownership checks.

## 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 #105442. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #105442 (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-105442`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #103030: target_busy delivery refused by background-tab lease: ownership tracks open chat, not viewed tab (follow-up to #99956)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#105442: fix: cron and local DMs reach an open Desktop Bot Chat**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/monitoring/cron_health.py`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `cron/executions.py`, `cron/scheduler.py`, `cron/scheduler_delivery.py`, `hermes_cli/cron.py`, `tests/cron/test_cron_live_bot_delivery.py`, `tests/tools/test_bot_live_owner_delivery.py`, `tests/tools/test_bot_mode_dm.py`, `tests/tui_gateway/test_auto_continue.py`, `tests/tui_gateway/test_bot_live_owner_delivery.py`, `tools/bot_live_delivery.py`, `tools/bot_mode_dm.py`, `tools/cronjob_tools.py`, `tui_gateway/prompt_turn.py`, `tui_gateway/session_auto_continue.py`, `tui_gateway/session_lifecycle.py`, `tui_gateway/session_notifications.py`, `tui_gateway/turn_marker.py`, `website/docs/developer-guide/cron-internals.md` (+2 more)
- **#103437: fix(bot-mode): deliver local DMs into a live Bot Chat owner instead of refusing**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `5280fe99872a58f1b9d25b00a79d240ecd035f7d`, `#101564`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #105442 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-07`.