# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Cron stale-code ticker and gateway restart bugs

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and fixes concern a cron ticker incorrectly treating stale-code yields as dispatch outages, and related problems with gateway restart detection and fleet-restart warning persistence. Multiple adjacent but distinct bugs share a common root area around stale gateway handling and cron scheduling behavior.

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 3 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #117501. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #117501 (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-117501`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.40`: 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

- #117275: \[Bug\]: hermes update never restarts the running gateway — cron ticker yields every tick as 'stale code' for hours, \`cron status\` stays green during a total dispatch outage

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#117501: fix(update): stale-code cron yield reads as an outage and hermes update restarts proven-stale gateways (#117275)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `cron/scheduler.py`, `hermes_cli/cron.py`, `hermes_cli/update_cmd_fleet.py`, `hermes_cli/update_cmd_stale_survivors.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_stale_gateway_yield.py`, `website/docs/developer-guide/cron-internals.md`
- **#117679: fix(cron): stale-code ticker keeps dispatching when the lock holder is not a fresh gateway (#117275, salvage #117287)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `cron/scheduler.py`, `gateway/code_skew.py`, `tests/cron/test_cron_tick_stale_yield.py`, `website/docs/developer-guide/cron-internals.md`
- **#117748: Fleet-restart warning no longer sticks forever on a serve backend, and macOS reports a gateway restarted only when its PID changed (#117275)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `hermes_cli/gateway.py`, `hermes_cli/update_abort_recovery.py`, `hermes_cli/update_cmd_fleet.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_fleet_restart_pending.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_launchd_restart_verification.py`
- **#117287: fix(cron): keep schedules dispatching when the gateway holder is stale**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `95b1f4c855`, `#117679`, `#117275`, `#117501`, `#117679`, `#117748`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #117501 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-21`.