NousResearch/hermes-agent

MCP retry loop and circuit breaker handling

Cluster 10447. Data as of

Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #109180 on 12 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.

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A fix was merged to main in PR #109180. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
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The maintainers' tracker marks this resolved, deciding PR #10776. That is separate from the fix event.
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These members concern an infinite retry loop triggered when an MCP tool returns an error, and related fixes introducing a circuit breaker to prevent retry burn loops while preserving tool responses.

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Fixes on record

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  • #10776 fix: add circuit breaker to MCP tool handler to prevent retry burn loops

    merged to main

    files: tools/mcp_tool.py

  • #109180 fix(mcp): recovered retry keeps the tool's real answer, breaker strike intact (salvage #106753)

    merged to main

    files: contributors/emails/[redacted:email], tests/tools/test_mcp_tool_session_expired.py, tools/mcp_tool_handlers.py

Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#10447Gateway hangs when Google Workspace MCP skill returns error — infinite retry loop
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  • Pairwise link density 0.67: the share of item 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.

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Merged PRs
#10776, #109180
Closed issues
1
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0 PRs closed without merging
Fix link checked
12 Sep 2026

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