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Adding retry logic to peer DM transient failures

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #116964 on 20 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.

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These items address a missing retry policy in the peer DM transport, which unlike local and relayed DM lanes did not retry on transient turn failures. Changes span the peer, API server, and gateway layers.

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  • #116964 fix(peer): hermes peer dm retries a transient turn once and hides a bare silence marker (#115325, salvage #115380 #111992)

    merged to main

    files: agent/session_persistence.py, gateway/platforms/api_server.py, hermes_cli/quiet_single_query.py, hermes_cli/subcommands/peer.py, tests/gateway/test_peer_dm_transient_retry.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_peer_cmd.py, tools/bot_failure_reasons.py

2 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: done elsewhere 1 · merged via another change 1

  • #115378 fix(api-server): retry transient peer-DM turn failures (#115325) · done elsewhere → #116964, #115325, #115378
  • #115380 fix(gateway): a peer DM retries a transient turn failure once, like the other two lanes · merged via another change → #116964, #115380, #115325
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#115325hermes peer dm never retries a transient turn failure — the third DM transport is missing the retry policy local and relayed DMs share (#93091 item 5)
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