NousResearch/hermes-agent

Cron external worker cold start timeout fixes

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #110192 on 13 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.

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These issues and PRs address a problem where cold external worker startups were being abandoned because the acknowledgment deadline (5 seconds) was shorter than the time needed for a cold start (~12 seconds). Changes extend or align the ack deadline and preserve startup diagnostics.

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  • #110192 cron: cold external worker starts no longer abandoned at 5s — ack deadline equals the 30s adoption grace (#109243, salvage #109252)

    merged to main

    files: cron/scheduler.py, tests/cron/test_restart_safe_worker.py

2 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: done elsewhere 1 · other 1

  • #109252 fix(cron): allow cold external worker startup · done elsewhere → 157aa71, #110192, #109294
  • #109294 fix(cron): preserve external worker startup diagnostics · other → #109243, #110192, #109252
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#109243cron: external-worker handoff requires an ack within 5s, but a cold worker start takes ~12s
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#110192
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13 Sep 2026

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