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Discord liveness probe improvements for silent failures

NousResearch/hermes-agent · cluster 109521

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #109963. Check it covers your case.

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A fix was merged to main in PR #109963. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
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The maintainers' tracker marks this resolved, deciding PR #111178. That is separate from the fix event.
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These issues and fixes address a scenario where the Discord gateway socket ACKs heartbeats but delivers no events, causing silent outages without triggering the watchdog. The work adds a dispatch-side liveness dimension and improves handling of invalid knob values.

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  • #109963 fix(discord): unusable liveness knob values warn instead of disabling the watchdog silently (#109521, salvage #109782)

    merged to main

    files: plugins/platforms/discord/adapter.py, tests/gateway/test_discord_liveness.py, website/docs/user-guide/messaging/discord.md

  • #111178 Discord adapter trips liveness when the socket ACKs heartbeats but delivers no events (#109521, salvage #111014)

    merged to main

    files: hermes_cli/config_defaults.py, plugins/platforms/discord/adapter.py, tests/gateway/test_config.py, tests/gateway/test_discord_event_silence.py, tests/gateway/test_discord_liveness.py, website/docs/user-guide/messaging/discord.md, website/i18n/zh-Hans/docusaurus-plugin-content-docs/current/user-guide/messaging/discord.md

2 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: merged via another change 2

  • #109782 fix(discord): liveness probe gains a dispatch-side dimension (#109521) · merged via another change → #109963, #109521
  • #111014 fix(discord): dispatch-side liveness dimension detects an ACKing-but-deaf gateway socket (#109521) · merged via another change → 7959e3b, #111178
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#109521[Bug]: Discord adapter goes silent for hours (no crash, no log, watchdog doesn't fire) — two distinct incidents
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#109963, #111178
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2 PRs closed without merging
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15 Sep 2026

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