# NousResearch/hermes-agent · TUI heartbeat watchdog incorrectly closes streaming sockets

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A bug where the heartbeat watchdog did not count streamed frames as liveness signals, causing it to force-close healthy gateway sockets during long streaming turns. Related fixes and patches address this false-kill behavior.

## 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 #116992. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #116992 (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-116992`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #115251: TUI heartbeat watchdog kills healthy sockets during long turns ('response' liveness ignores streaming) -> false kill, split sessions

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#116992: fix(tui): a streaming gateway socket is no longer force-closed mid-turn by the heartbeat watchdog (#115251, salvage #115328)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/shared/src/json-rpc-channel.test.ts`, `apps/shared/src/json-rpc-gateway.ts`, `ui-tui/src/__tests__/gatewayClientHeartbeatLiveness.test.ts`, `ui-tui/src/gatewayClient.ts`
- **#115328: fix(tui): count streamed frames as heartbeat liveness (#115251)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `1cf8a9fb417f`, `#116992`, `#115251`, `#115328`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #116992 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-20`.