# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Docker capability-probe transient failure caching fix

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern a bug where a temporary failure during Docker's capability-probe process is incorrectly cached as a permanent unsupported state, disabling container resource limits for the entire process lifetime. The work addresses stopping that transient failure from being treated as a definitive negative result.

## 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 #116722. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #116722 (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-116722`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #116162: Transient Docker capability-probe failure permanently disables container resource limits

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#116722: fix(docker): a transient capability-probe failure no longer disables container resource limits for the whole process (#116162, salvage #116163)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_docker_cgroup_limits.py`, `tools/environments/docker.py`
- **#116163: fix(docker): stop caching transient capability-probe failures as unsupported**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `16ae9cfccb33`, `#116722`, `#116162`, `#116163`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #116722 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-20`.