# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Shared processes.json checkpoint ownership and background job recovery

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #120856: \[Bug\]: gateway restart adopts and later kills other processes' background jobs via the shared processes.json
- PR #120857: fix(process): each process owns its checkpoint entries; recovery adopts only dead writers' jobs
- PR #136530: fix(process): sessions sharing a profile no longer erase each other's background jobs from processes.json

These members all concern background jobs recorded in a shared processes.json checkpoint file. They describe sessions erasing each other's entries and gateway restart recovery adopting, and later killing, jobs that belong to other processes; two are fixes that propose per-process ownership and adopting only dead writers' jobs.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 2 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 0 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `1.00`: 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.

## Open related issues

- #120856: \[Bug\]: gateway restart adopts and later kills other processes' background jobs via the shared processes.json

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#120857: fix(process): each process owns its checkpoint entries; recovery adopts only dead writers' jobs**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#136530`
  - files: `.gitignore`, `tests/gateway/test_completion_session_boundary.py`, `tests/gateway/test_multiplex_served_profile_parity.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_flat_install_state_gitignore.py`, `tests/tools/test_notify_on_complete.py`, `tests/tools/test_process_checkpoint_writers.py`, `tests/tools/test_process_registry.py`, `tools/process_registry.py`, `tools/process_registry_checkpoint.py`, `tools/process_registry_results.py`, `website/docs/developer-guide/tools-runtime.md`
- **#136530: fix(process): sessions sharing a profile no longer erase each other's background jobs from processes.json**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
  - files: `.gitignore`, `tests/gateway/test_completion_session_boundary.py`, `tests/gateway/test_multiplex_served_profile_parity.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_flat_install_state_gitignore.py`, `tests/tools/test_notify_on_complete.py`, `tests/tools/test_process_checkpoint_readopt.py`, `tests/tools/test_process_checkpoint_worker_handoff.py`, `tests/tools/test_process_checkpoint_writers.py`, `tests/tools/test_process_registry.py`, `tools/process_registry.py`, `tools/process_registry_checkpoint.py`, `tools/process_registry_results.py`, `website/docs/developer-guide/tools-runtime.md`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `agent`