# NousResearch/hermes-agent · MoA non-finite settings crash fixes and fallbacks

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address bugs where non-finite values (e.g. NaN, infinity) in MoA fanout, cadence, and temperature settings cause crashes or bypass normalization. The fixes add safe fallback handling instead of crashing.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #111355. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #111355 (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-111355`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #110801: \[Bug\]: non-finite MoA settings crash cadence parsing and escape temperature normalization

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#111355: fix(moa): non-finite fanout/temperature settings fall back instead of crashing hermes moa list (#110801, salvage #110802)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `hermes_cli/moa_config.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_moa_numeric_config.py`
- **#110802: fix(moa): safely normalize non-finite cadence and temperature settings**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#111355`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #111355 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-15`.