# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Cron gateway survives agent-issued interpreter kills

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a bug where agent-issued process kills targeting the interpreter image name (e.g. taskkill /F /IM python.exe) could terminate the supervised cron gateway itself. The work adds an image-name branch to the lifecycle guard to block or survive such kills.

## 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 #114880. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #114880 (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-114880`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #113667: \[Bug\]: agent-issued \`taskkill /F /IM python.exe\` from inside the gateway kills the gateway — lifecycle guard has no image-name branch

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#114880: fix(cron): supervised gateway survives agent-issued kills of its own interpreter image (#113667, salvage #113671, #94379)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `cron/lifecycle_guard.py`, `gateway/lifecycle_ledger.py`, `gateway/restart.py`, `tests/gateway/test_lifecycle_ledger.py`, `tests/gateway/test_restart_service_detection.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_gateway_restart_loop.py`, `tests/tools/test_execute_code_lifecycle_guard_deadline.py`, `tests/tools/test_launchctl_guard_diagnostic.py`, `tests/tools/test_process_registry.py`, `tools/code_execution_tool.py`, `tools/process_registry.py`, `tools/terminal_tool_guards.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/security.md`
- **#113671: fix(cron): block taskkill gateway interpreter**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `309b764a1595`, `#114880`, `#113667`, `#113671`, `#94379`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #114880 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-18`.