# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Bot-relay turn booking vs handoff kill bug

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern a bug where a relayed turn's completion is incorrectly treated as a delivery timeout and killed alongside its handoff, rather than being booked from its own turn report. The fixes address how lingering relayed turns at the cap are handled separately from their handoff lifecycle.

## 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 #116968. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #116968 (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-116968`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `1.00`: 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

- #114980: \[Bug\]: relayed DM shares one 600s deadline between the turn and the exit linger — a completed turn is booked as delivery_timeout, its reply lost and its handoff killed

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#116968: fix(bot-relay): a relayed turn still lingering at the cap is booked from its turn report, not killed with its handoff (#114980, salvage #115312)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `cli.py`, `cron/scheduler_delivery.py`, `hermes_cli/quiet_single_query.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_quiet_single_query.py`, `tests/tools/test_bot_retry_policy.py`, `tests/tools/test_bot_turn_lock.py`, `tests/tui_gateway/test_bot_relay_methods.py`, `tui_gateway/methods_bot_relay.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/bot-mode.md`
- **#115312: fix(bot-relay): a relayed turn is booked from its turn report at the cap, not killed with its handoff (#114980)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#116968`, `#114980`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #116968 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-20`.