# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Windows gateway crash detection and recovery

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #112628: \[Bug\]: Windows gateway deaths are silent: no alert, no unattended recovery, no consumer for existing liveness signals
- PR #91099: fix(gateway): supervise Windows watchdog exits
- PR #112638: fix(gateway): recover stale Windows gateways

These items address silent Windows gateway process deaths that go undetected and unrecovered. The work involves supervising watchdog exits, alerting on failures, and recovering stale gateway processes.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 2 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 0 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #112628: \[Bug\]: Windows gateway deaths are silent: no alert, no unattended recovery, no consumer for existing liveness signals

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#91099: fix(gateway): supervise Windows watchdog exits**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `stale_abandoned`; implication `active`; refs `#81633`
  - files: `gateway/shutdown_watchdog.py`, `hermes_cli/gateway_windows.py`, `tests/gateway/test_loop_liveness_watchdog.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_gateway_windows.py`
- **#112638: fix(gateway): recover stale Windows gateways**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
  - files: `hermes_cli/gateway_windows.py`, `hermes_cli/gateway_windows_liveness.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_gateway_windows_liveness.py`

## Fix status

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