# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Kanban budget-exhausted outcome scoping for delegated workers

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and fixes address how budget-exhausted kanban outcomes are incorrectly triggered or inherited by delegated child workers, and work to scope that behavior exclusively to dispatcher-owned worker contexts. A related bug covers delegated children improperly interacting with the parent's kanban card.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #113147. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #113147 (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-113147`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #112817: \[Bug\]: delegate_task children can be nudged into kanban_complete and mark the parent board task timed_out via inherited HERMES_KANBAN_TASK

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#113147: Delegated children of a kanban worker never act on the parent's card (budget fallback, operator notes, title)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/title_generator.py`, `agent/turn_finalizer.py`, `tests/agent/test_title_generator.py`, `tests/agent/test_turn_finalizer_iteration_limit_exit.py`, `tests/tools/test_kanban_comment_injection.py`, `tools/kanban_tools.py`
- **#112827: fix(agent): scope turn_finalizer budget-exhausted kanban outcome to dispatcher-owned workers**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#112817`
- **#112828: fix(agent): gate kanban budget-exhausted outcome on dispatcher-owned worker context**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#112817`, `#112827`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #113147 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-16`.