# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Kanban child card blocking and demotion fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

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.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #111468. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #111468 (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-111468`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

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

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#111468: fix(kanban): linking a ready card under an unfinished parent records why it dropped to todo (#110996, salvage #111005)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - 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`
- **#110999: fix(kanban): allow forced support children of blocked parents**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#110996`, `#111468`, `#111005`
- **#111005: fix(kanban): surface the link-time demotion of a ready child to todo**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `35b1609fc3`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #111468 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-15`.
- Subsystem: `hermes_cli`