# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Cron jobs skip LLM when script output is empty

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and PRs add a mechanism to conditionally skip LLM invocation in cron jobs when a pre-run script produces no output. One entry also bundles unrelated Windows and config fixes.

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 2 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 3 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_PARTIAL`): some members are connected by structural evidence (shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference); the rest are joined by an automated relevance judgement over their text.
- Members outside that structural core may belong to a different underlying problem.
- Pairwise link density `0.34`: 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

- #10656: feat(cron): add script_skip_if_empty to skip LLM when script returns empty output
- #60256: Feature: conditional LLM invocation from no-agent cron scripts

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#10659: Feat/cron precheck skip llm**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `e01713140`, `#12373`
- **#10680: fix: Windows UTF-8 + config + rollback + model picker + cron skip**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
- **#60341: feat(cron): conditional LLM invocation from no-agent scripts**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `54cd633366cf51810e2efc31e228a5774556b3c3`

## Fix status

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