# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Cron workers hanging due to inherited gateway env vars

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern cron and unattended workers incorrectly inheriting gateway presence environment variables (HERMES_INTERACTIVE, HERMES_GATEWAY_SESSION, HERMES_EXEC_ASK), causing them to hang on approval cards. The work involves isolating or stripping those variables from external worker environments.

## 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 #111483. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #111483 (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-111483`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #110932: Cron workers inherit gateway presence vars (HERMES_INTERACTIVE/HERMES_GATEWAY_SESSION/HERMES_EXEC_ASK) and hang on approval cards

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#111483: fix(approval): cron and other unattended runs no longer hang on approval cards after inheriting gateway presence env (#110932, salvage #110949)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `cron/scheduler.py`, `tests/tools/test_cron_not_interactive.py`, `tests/tools/test_cronjob_tools.py`, `tools/approval.py`, `tools/cronjob_tools.py`
- **#110942: fix(cron): isolate external worker presence env**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#111483`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #111483 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-15`.