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Kanban child card blocking and demotion fixes

Cluster 110996 · hermes cli. Data as of 2026-10-24 04:06 UTC

Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #111468 on 15 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.

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Known?: Yes. 4 related items grouped here, 1 issue already closed.
Fix event: A fix was merged to main in PR #111468. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
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These issues and pull requests address how child cards behave when linked under blocked or unfinished parents, including surfacing the reason a ready card drops to todo and handling forced promotion or claiming of such children.

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#111468 fix(kanban): linking a ready card under an unfinished parent records why it dropped to todo (#110996, salvage #111005)

merged to main

files: hermes_cli/kanban.py, hermes_cli/kanban_db.py, plugins/kanban/dashboard/plugin_api.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_db.py, tests/tools/test_kanban_tools.py, tools/kanban_tools.py, website/docs/user-guide/features/kanban.md

2 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: done elsewhere 2

#110999 fix(kanban): allow forced support children of blocked parents · done elsewhere → #110996, #111468, #111005
#111005 fix(kanban): surface the link-time demotion of a ready child to todo · done elsewhere → 35b1609

Closed issues · 1

Closed#110996Cards created as children of a blocked parent are unclaimable by construction: claim_task re-rejects parents_not_done even after promote --force

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Link evidence (structural links throughout): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
Pairwise link density 0.50: the share of item 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.

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Subsystem: hermes cli
Merged PRs: #111468
Closed issues: 1
Attempts: 2 PRs closed without merging
Fix link checked: 15 Sep 2026

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