# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Kanban parallel worker resource-group scheduling

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #111188: \[Feature\]: Rules-aware parallel worker assignment in Kanban
- PR #111201: feat(kanban): schedule workers by shared resource groups

These items concern adding resource-group and mutual-exclusion logic to Kanban's parallel worker assignment, so that workers sharing resources are scheduled without contention.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Open related issues

- #111188: \[Feature\]: Rules-aware parallel worker assignment in Kanban

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#111191: feat(kanban): avoid shared resource worker contention**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#111201`
- **#111201: feat(kanban): schedule workers by shared resource groups**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `3ea8eafc11896cc89a7b4098509f29681e6c20e5`, `6f72163e4da4e9ca34d8ca61d96ced04fe5df43b`, `#111201`, `#111188`, `#111191`
  - files: `gateway/kanban_watchers_dispatcher.py`, `hermes_cli/config_defaults.py`, `hermes_cli/kanban_db.py`, `hermes_cli/kanban_db_connect.py`, `hermes_cli/kanban_db_dispatch.py`, `hermes_cli/kanban_ops.py`, `tests/gateway/test_kanban_auto_decompose_secret_scope.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_resource_groups.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/kanban.md`
- **#125373: feat(kanban): mutual-exclusion groups for parallel worker assignment**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `398bf7281152`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `cron`