# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Background review fork runtime inheritance bug

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #105825: Background review/curator turns inherit fallback model after primary failover recovery
- PR #105835: fix(#105825): background review fork inherits primary, not fallback runtime

These items concern a bug where background review or curator fork processes incorrectly inherit the fallback runtime/model instead of the primary one. The work addresses how runtime selection is propagated during or after primary failover scenarios.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 1 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Open related issues

- #105825: Background review/curator turns inherit fallback model after primary failover recovery

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#105830: fix(review): pin background-review fork to primary runtime during fallback (#105825)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#105835`
- **#105835: fix(#105825): background review fork inherits primary, not fallback runtime**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#105830`
  - files: `agent/background_review.py`

## Fix status

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