# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Gateway process lingers after teardown completes

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #108729: \[Bug\]: hermes update burns full 1875s drain budget — gateway process lingers after completed teardown (stale platform ws thread + non-quiesced event loop)
- PR #108736: fix(gateway): arm a post-teardown exit backstop for wedged shutdowns
- PR #108738: fix(gateway): bound process exit after completed teardown

A bug where the gateway process fails to exit cleanly after teardown, leaving stale threads and an unquiesced event loop, along with two fixes that add bounded exit behavior and a backstop for wedged shutdowns.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 2 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 0 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #108729: \[Bug\]: hermes update burns full 1875s drain budget — gateway process lingers after completed teardown (stale platform ws thread + non-quiesced event loop)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#108736: fix(gateway): arm a post-teardown exit backstop for wedged shutdowns**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `volume_quota`; implication `active`; refs `#108729`, `#108738`, `#108738`
  - files: `gateway/run_shutdown.py`, `gateway/shutdown_watchdog.py`, `tests/gateway/test_post_teardown_exit_backstop.py`
- **#108738: fix(gateway): bound process exit after completed teardown**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `volume_quota`; implication `active`; refs `#108729`, `#108736`, `#108736`
  - files: `gateway/run.py`, `gateway/run_bootstrap.py`, `gateway/run_shutdown.py`, `gateway/shutdown_watchdog.py`, `tests/gateway/test_gateway_process_exit.py`, `tests/gateway/test_gateway_shutdown.py`, `tests/gateway/test_shutdown_watchdog.py`

## Fix status

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