# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Cron delivery retention race condition fixes

## Open now

- 0 issues, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- PR #104002: fix(cron): serialize delivery deduplication with terminal retention

These issues and pull requests address a race condition where cron delivery retention logic could conflict with enqueue operations, potentially resurrecting already-delivered executions. The work focuses on serializing deduplication with terminal retention to prevent this.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 0 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #104909. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #104909 (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-104909`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #104001: Cron delivery retention can race enqueue and resurrect an already delivered execution

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#104909: fix: delivered cron runs stay delivered during retention (#104001, salvage #104002)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `cron/delivery_queue.py`, `tests/cron/test_delivery_queue_retention_race.py`
- **#104002: fix(cron): serialize delivery deduplication with terminal retention**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `4b7111a40ea99b49b5ebb05dec57512c8ec8939f`, `245e48008fa814b3251f50755eb656bd9fb86cb1`, `83efdf5e5e634e7a5b0b33e21e986eefb28d7142`, `#104001`, `#75833`
  - files: `cron/delivery_queue.py`, `tests/cron/test_delivery_queue_retention_race.py`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #104909 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-07`.
- Subsystem: `cron`