# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Terminal heartbeat schema defaults and validation fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and pull requests address a bug where the terminal heartbeat schema caused foreground validation loops and notification flooding. The fixes involve normalizing heartbeat defaults, ensuring disabled heartbeat configurations are schema-valid, and removing a materialized foreground terminal heartbeat.

## TL;DR

- 6 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 4 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #133793. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #133793 (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-133793`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.33`: 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

- #119196: \[Bug\]: terminal heartbeat schema causes foreground validation loops and notification flooding

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#133793: fix(terminal): a foreground call with heartbeat runs instead of looping on a refusal (#121634, salvage #119201)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_process_heartbeat.py`, `tools/terminal_tool.py`
- **#119201: fix: normalize foreground terminal heartbeat defaults**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `4317ed0e7139`, `4317ed0e7139b0edb4ee9ff6e56a36b07ccfd77e`, `#119202`
- **#119202: fix(terminal): make disabled heartbeat schema-valid**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `4317ed0e71`, `#119196`
- **#119203: fix(tools): drop a materialized foreground terminal heartbeat**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#119201`
- **#124108: fix: normalize a materialized foreground terminal heartbeat and give it a disabled schema default**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `4317ed0e71`, `#119196`, `#119202`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #133793 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-07`.