# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Cron fire-fence timeout vs ownership loss correction

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and PRs address a bug where a local fire-fence timeout during heartbeat renewal was incorrectly treated as loss of fire-claim ownership, causing slow or fenced deliveries to be falsely recorded as \`failed\`. The work focuses on correctly distinguishing fire-fence contention from actual ownership loss.

## TL;DR

- 6 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 4 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: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-109310`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.33`: 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

- #108341: cron: fire-claim heartbeat treats a local fire-fence timeout as ownership loss, so a slow notifying delivery is recorded as failed

## 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  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`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`
- **#108359: fix(cron): renew fire-claim heartbeat without fire-fence timeout (fixes #108341)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `9a60a7f3167e`, `#108341`
- **#108360: fix(cron): distinguish fire fence contention from ownership loss**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#108359`
- **#108471: fix(cron): remove unnecessary fire_fence_lock in heartbeat_fire_claim**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `9a60a7f3167e`
- **#127874: fix(cron): an unacquirable fire fence is not lost fire-claim ownership**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #109310 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-12`.