# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Hermes PID 1 zombie reaping and supervision warnings

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a bug where overriding the entrypoint or running Hermes unsupervised as PID 1 leaves no zombie reaper, causing orphan process accumulation. They cover a CLI warning, documentation guidance around 'init: true', and the underlying bug report.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #112232. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #112232 (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-112232`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #111577: \[Bug\]: entrypoint override (or non-PID-1 fallback) leaves no zombie reaper — orphans accumulate under PID 1, and the supervision tree is lost with them

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#112232: docs(docker): overriding entrypoint: drops the zombie reaper — document init: true and warn when hermes is PID 1 (#111577, salvage #111584)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `hermes_cli/main.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_unsupervised_pid1_warning.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/docker.md`
- **#111584: fix(cli): warn when hermes runs unsupervised as PID 1**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `a2837ec088`, `#112232`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #112232 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-16`.