# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Kanban reliability: failure budgets, fast-trip, exit decode

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address multiple Kanban dispatcher improvements: giving the review lane its own independent failure budget, adding a fast-trip mechanism for terminal provider errors, decoding Windows exit codes, and parking cards on revoked-key or missing-model errors instead of consuming the retry budget.

## 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 #115594. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #115594 (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: `unresolved`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #114587: kanban dispatcher: independent review-lane failure budget, terminal-provider fast-trip, Windows exit decode

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#115594: Kanban workers killed by a revoked key or missing model park the card after one spawn instead of burning the retry budget (#114587, salvage #114589)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `cli.py`, `cron/AGENTS.md`, `hermes_cli/kanban_db.py`, `hermes_cli/kanban_db_dispatch.py`, `hermes_cli/kanban_diagnostics.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_db.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_single_query_exit_contract.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/kanban.md`
- **#114589: feat(kanban): independent review-lane failure budget + terminal-provider fast-trip + Windows exit decode**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `2b94b0d40f`, `#115594`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #115594 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-19`.