# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Discord liveness probe improvements for silent failures

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

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.

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 2 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #109963. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #109963 (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-111178`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.40`: 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

- #109521: \[Bug\]: Discord adapter goes silent for hours (no crash, no log, watchdog doesn't fire) — two distinct incidents

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#109963: fix(discord): unusable liveness knob values warn instead of disabling the watchdog silently (#109521, salvage #109782)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - 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 · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - 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`
- **#109782: fix(discord): liveness probe gains a dispatch-side dimension (#109521)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#109963`, `#109521`, `#109963`
- **#111014: fix(discord): dispatch-side liveness dimension detects an ACKing-but-deaf gateway socket (#109521)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `7959e3b0ff`, `#111178`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #109963 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-15`.