# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Profile updates incorrectly overwrite user cron jobs

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a bug where profile installation or update operations replace or delete cron job configurations instead of merging them, causing user-defined and runtime cron jobs to be lost. The work involves changing the merge strategy for distributed cron job data.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #121264. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #121264 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #120823: \[Bug\]: profile update deletes the user's own cron jobs, and profile install leaves shipped jobs running

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#121264: hermes profile update merges shipped cron jobs instead of replacing the store (#120823, salvage #120910)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `cron/job_definition.py`, `hermes_cli/profile_distribution.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_profile_distribution.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/profile-distributions.md`
- **#120824: fix(profiles): merge cron/jobs.json per job so update keeps the installer's jobs**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `68ca2c8564`, `b0aefcce70`, `#120823`, `#121264`, `#120910`
- **#120910: fix(profiles): merge distributed cron jobs without replacing runtime state**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `99b7078921`, `06c3062e36`, `68ca2c8564`, `5ae39093ad`, `a49f13d762`, `d9a6a13c86`, `f17b78f0e3`, `b0aefcce70`, `#121264`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #121264 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-24`.