# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Preserve completed tool results after headless exit

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and fixes address a scenario where completed background or terminal-managed results are lost when a headless bot or parent process exits prematurely. The work focuses on recovering or preserving those results so they are not discarded.

## 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 #104949. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #104949 (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-104949`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `1.00`: 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

- #104511: Headless Bot Chat loses completed terminal-managed Hermes review handoff

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#104949: fix(tools): recover completed terminal output after parent exit (#104511, salvage #104805)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `evals/process_result_receipt_probe.py`, `tests/tools/test_completed_process_results.py`, `tests/tools/test_oneshot_completion_linger.py`, `tools/process_registry.py`, `tools/process_registry_checkpoint.py`, `tools/process_registry_results.py`, `website/docs/developer-guide/tools-runtime.md`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/tools.md`, `website/i18n/zh-Hans/docusaurus-plugin-content-docs/current/user-guide/features/tools.md`
- **#104805: fix(tools): preserve completed background results after headless exit**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `5695ebc40f`, `b72e373e23`, `633955408b`, `fbed1d4584`, `0522ae934e`, `1735ccde44`, `#104949`, `#104511`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #104949 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-07`.