# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Fix background process kill receipt timing issue

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a bug where cancelling or incompletely killing a background process causes it to disappear from or remain incorrectly listed in the background process list. The fix ensures the process tree is verified as dead before a killed receipt is written.

## 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 #116952. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #116952 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #115490: \[Bug\]\[Desktop\]: live background process missing from background list after cancelled kill

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#116952: fix(process): an incomplete kill keeps the background entry listed instead of writing a killed receipt (#115490, salvage #115504)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_kill_verify_tree_death.py`, `tests/tools/test_process_registry.py`, `tools/process_registry.py`
- **#115504: fix(process): verify tree death before writing killed receipt**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `a931b455a6a2`, `#116952`, `#115490`, `#115504`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #116952 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-20`.