# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Cron stale job catch-up control after host sleep

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #111212: Cron catch-up after host sleep fires stale jobs hours/days late with no visible policy or audit trail
- PR #111225: fix(cron): stop stale jobs from running without per-job policy

These items concern cron jobs firing stale or delayed executions after a host sleeps, and the addition of a per-job opt-out policy to suppress such catch-up runs. The group covers the reported behavior, visibility concerns, and related fixes.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 1 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.67`: 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.

## Open related issues

- #111212: Cron catch-up after host sleep fires stale jobs hours/days late with no visible policy or audit trail

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#111225: fix(cron): stop stale jobs from running without per-job policy**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `cron/jobs.py`, `cron/scheduler.py`, `hermes_cli/cron.py`, `hermes_cli/subcommands/cron.py`, `tests/cron/test_catchup_policy.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_cron.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_cron_dispatch_visibility.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_cron_parser_builder.py`, `tests/tools/test_cronjob_tools.py`, `tools/cronjob_job_args.py`, `tools/cronjob_tools.py`, `website/docs/developer-guide/cron-internals.md`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/cron.md`
- **#125360: fix(cron): per-job catch_up opt-out skips stale fires after host sleep**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `ba661999fc74`

## Fix status

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