# NousResearch/hermes-agent · delegate_task timeout handling and config fixes

## Open now

- 0 issues, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- PR #105653: fix(cli): stop flagging documented timeouts.* keys as unrecognized in config set

These items address a bug where a generic 420-second tool deadline incorrectly preempts delegation child timeouts, causing orphaned child tasks, along with related fixes to nested orchestrator result delivery and a CLI config validation issue with timeout keys.

## 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.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #105628: Cron/oneshot delegate_task: generic 420s tool deadline preempts delegation.child_timeout_seconds, orphaning a token-spending child

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#103486: fix(delegate): nested orchestrators get their workers' results back — delegate_task exempt from the 420 s tool deadline; summary budget uses current prompt, not the session sum**. merged to main
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/tool_executor.py`, `agent/turn_usage.py`, `tests/agent/test_sequential_deadline_delegate_exempt.py`, `tests/tools/test_delegate_summary_budget.py`, `tools/delegate_tool_results.py`
- **#105653: fix(cli): stop flagging documented timeouts.* keys as unrecognized in config set**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `hermes_cli/config.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_set_config_value.py`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `hermes_cli`