# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Kanban auto-heartbeat silent failure fix

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

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.

## 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 #114793. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #114793 (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-114793`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #113609: \[Bug\]: kanban auto-heartbeat bridge silently fails for workers inheriting HERMES_DELEGATED_CHILD_CONTEXT (claim starves; function returns True)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#114793: fix(kanban): fenced worker auto-heartbeat reports failure and warns instead of silently returning True (#113609, salvage #113616)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - 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`
- **#113616: fix(kanban): report failed auto-heartbeats**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `e3e086689973`, `#114793`, `#113609`, `#113616`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #114793 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-18`.