NousResearch/hermes-agent

Kanban auto-heartbeat silent failure fix

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #114793 on 18 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.

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A bug where kanban auto-heartbeat silently returned True on failure for workers with delegated child context, causing claim starvation. The related items address reporting that failure and emitting a warning instead.

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  • #114793 fix(kanban): fenced worker auto-heartbeat reports failure and warns instead of silently returning True (#113609, salvage #113616)

    merged to main

    files: tests/cron/test_cron_kanban_env_isolation.py, tests/tools/test_delegate_kanban_isolation.py, tools/kanban_tools.py, website/docs/user-guide/features/kanban.md

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: merged via another change 1

  • #113616 fix(kanban): report failed auto-heartbeats · merged via another change → e3e0866, #114793, #113609, #113616
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#113609[Bug]: kanban auto-heartbeat bridge silently fails for workers inheriting HERMES_DELEGATED_CHILD_CONTEXT (claim starves; function returns True)
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18 Sep 2026

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