# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Windows gateway restart handoff after update issues

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern a bug where the gateway relaunch verification fails after a Hermes update on Windows, and two fixes addressing how the post-update restart handoff is handled, including incorrect argv reading and job-surviving ownership routing.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #121635. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #121635 (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-121635`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #107002: Bug: Windows: hermes update completes successfully, but gateway relaunch verification fails (#48820)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#121635: fix(update): stop reading gateway identity off the Windows restart watcher's argv (#107002)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `gateway/status.py`, `hermes_cli/gateway.py`, `hermes_cli/update_cmd_windows.py`, `tests/_fixtures/live_system_guard.py`, `tests/gateway/test_control_socket_windows_live.py`, `tests/gateway/test_gateway_command_line_matcher.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_desktop_lifecycle_windows_live.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_plan_reconciliation_windows_live.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_stderr_timestamp.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_venv_holder_windows_live.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_windows_relaunch_verify_budget.py`, `tests/live_process_fixtures.py`, `tests/test_live_system_guard_self_test.py`
- **#127240: fix(gateway): route the post-update restart handoff through a job-surviving owner**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#84409`, `#115495`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #121635 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-25`.