# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Iteration budget warnings and checkpoint fixes

## Open now

- 0 issues, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- PR #104683: fix(agent): warn before iteration budget exhaustion

These items address warning the model before its iteration budget runs out and ensuring Kanban workers can checkpoint before tool access expires. Two members focus on pre-exhaustion warnings; one addresses a related checkpoint timing fix.

## 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 #104900. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #104900 (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-104900`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #104674: Expose the iteration budget to the model: a one-time pre-exhaustion warning

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#104900: fix: Kanban workers can checkpoint before tool access expires (#104782, #104674)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/agent_init.py`, `agent/iteration_budget.py`, `agent/tool_executor.py`, `agent/turn_context.py`, `agent/turn_iteration_prep.py`, `hermes_cli/config_defaults.py`, `tests/agent/test_iteration_budget_warning.py`, `tests/agent/test_kanban_budget_checkpoint.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/configuration.md`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/kanban.md`
- **#104683: fix(agent): warn before iteration budget exhaustion**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `agent/agent_init.py`, `agent/turn_context.py`, `agent/turn_iteration_prep.py`, `hermes_cli/config_defaults.py`, `tests/agent/test_iteration_budget_warning.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/configuration.md`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #104900 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-07`.
- Subsystem: `agent`