# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Kanban orphan worker cleanup after task completion

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and PRs concern kanban workers that become orphaned when a task finishes and their state.db sidecar is deleted, leaving them unrecoverable by normal commands. The work addresses detecting and reaping such terminal orphan workers during subsequent dispatch cycles.

## 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 #112270. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #112270 (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-112270`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #111791: kanban worker orphaned on task completion holds a deleted state.db sidecar — no official command can reclaim it

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#112270: fix(kanban): workers that outlive their finished run are reaped on the next dispatch tick (#111791, slim redo of #111798)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `hermes_cli/kanban_db.py`, `hermes_cli/kanban_db_connect.py`, `hermes_cli/kanban_db_dispatch.py`, `hermes_cli/kanban_ops.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_terminal_worker_reaper.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/kanban.md`
- **#111798: fix(kanban): reap terminal orphan workers**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `bd63866253`, `#112270`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #112270 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-16`.