# NousResearch/hermes-agent · App-server sessions timing out during post-tool silence

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and fixes address a bug where healthy app-server sessions are incorrectly retired after 90 seconds of silence following a tool call. The changes aim to make sessions tolerate extended post-tool reasoning pauses without being terminated.

## 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 #113079. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #113079 (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-113079`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #112928: Codex app-server sessions are incorrectly retired after 90s of post-tool silence

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#113079: fix(codex): healthy app-server sessions survive long post-tool reasoning silence (#112928, salvage #112932)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/codex_runtime.py`, `agent/transports/codex_app_server_session.py`, `tests/agent/transports/test_codex_app_server_session.py`
- **#112932: fix(codex): tolerate post-tool app-server silence**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #113079 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-16`.