# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Cron delivery status wrongly overwritten by post-delivery blips

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and fixes concern a specific bug where a successfully delivered cron run has its terminal status incorrectly overwritten—by 'ownership lost', 'interrupted by shutdown', or similar errors—when a fire-claim heartbeat or sample misses after delivery has already completed.

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 2 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #109310. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #109310 (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: `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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.40`: 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

- #105861: Cron agent jobs: successful delivery overwritten with "Interrupted by shutdown before terminal completion." when fire-claim heartbeat lapses mid-run

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#109310: fix(cron): long fenced deliveries no longer recorded as failed 'ownership lost' (#108341, #100401; salvage #106745)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `cron/jobs.py`, `tests/cron/test_claim_job_for_fire.py`
- **#114332: A delivered cron run keeps its real status when the fire-claim sample misses afterwards (#105861, salvage #113283)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `cron/scheduler.py`, `tests/cron/test_fire_claim_lost_after_delivery.py`, `tests/cron/test_script_claim_heartbeat.py`, `tests/cron/test_shutdown_interrupt.py`
- **#105882: fix(cron): keep a delivered run's success through a transient post-delivery claim blip (#105861)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#109310`, `#105861`, `#109310`, `#105861`
- **#113283: fix(cron): a delivered run keeps its ok status when the fire-claim sample misses after delivery**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#114332`, `#114332`, `#114332`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #109310 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-17`.