# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Cron ticker thread resilience during startup failures

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and pull requests address a bug where the cron scheduler daemon thread silently dies during gateway startup, causing no jobs to fire. The work focuses on keeping or respawning the ticker thread through startup recovery and marker-write failures.

## 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 #111079. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #111079 (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-111079`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #111010: \[Bug\]: Cron scheduler daemon thread silently dies on gateway startup — no jobs fire

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#111079: Multiplex gateway: cron ticker survives startup and is respawned, Discord-thread Kanban subs deliver under profile_routes, secondary-profile skills dispatch (#111010, #110919, #110695; salvage #111034, #110928, #110698)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `cron/scheduler_provider.py`, `cron/scheduler_thread.py`, `gateway/kanban_watchers_notifier.py`, `gateway/run.py`, `hermes_cli/kanban.py`, `hermes_cli/kanban_db_notify.py`, `hermes_cli/kanban_parser.py`, `tests/cron/test_ticker_startup_survival.py`, `tests/gateway/test_kanban_routed_transport.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_notify.py`, `tests/tui_gateway/test_protocol.py`, `tui_gateway/methods_tools.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/kanban.md`
- **#111034: fix(cron): keep the ticker thread alive through startup recovery and marker writes**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `23ef64081c`, `a8b7af8586957`, `#111079`
- **#111182: Cron ticker thread survives startup recovery and marker-write failures (#111010, salvage #111034)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `8fce4baf8c`, `45b42202fa`, `#111034`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #111079 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-14`.