# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Session stuck busy when notification delivery claim lost

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern a bug where a desktop session becomes permanently busy if its notification poller loses the delivery claim, because the running state is never handed back. The fix involves returning the session's turn when a notification loses its delivery claim.

## 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 #116739. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #116739 (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-116739`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #116255: \[Bug\]: a Desktop session is left permanently busy when its notification poller loses the delivery claim — running is never released, so the chat, its lease and the bot's mailbox are stuck until restart

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#116739: fix(tui-gateway): a notification that loses its delivery claim hands the session's turn back (#116255, salvage #116256)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `tests/tui_gateway/test_notification_turn_release.py`, `tui_gateway/session_notifications.py`
- **#116256: fix(tui-gateway): a notification that loses its delivery claim hands the session's turn back (#116255)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `e78752906415`, `#116739`, `#116255`, `#116256`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #116739 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-20`.