# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Bot-relay roster clear: retry vs spent logic

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address how a one-shot roster clear experiencing errors is handled: whether it is retried or incorrectly marked as spent, which affects whether departed machines' agents remain unresolvable or stay looked up indefinitely.

## 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 #114947. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #114947 (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-114947`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #113862: A failed one-shot roster clear is marked spent, so a departed machine's agents stay resolvable forever

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#114947: fix(desktop): a failed bot-relay roster clear is retried instead of spent (#113862, salvage #113863)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/relay.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/relay.ts`
- **#113863: fix(bot-relay): a failed roster clear is retried, not spent**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `2cf241210a62`, `#114947`, `#113862`, `#113863`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #114947 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-18`.