# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Cron external worker plugin and secret resolution

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern cron jobs running under external or multiplexed worker topologies, focusing on plugin discovery, secret source hydration, and related agent-mode behaviors. The work spans liveness, routing, retention, and authentication issues specific to that worker configuration.

## 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 #126156. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #126156 (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-126156`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #121929: \[Bug\]: External cron workers cannot resolve plugin-registered secret sources — agent-mode cron jobs fail with AuthError since the restart-safe worker topology

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#126156: cron under multiplex: liveness, manual-run delivery, managed routes, degraded-send retention and worker secrets follow the job's owning profile (#121881 #99579 #99631 #124248 #120330 #125363 #121212 #121929)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `cron/jobs.py`, `cron/scheduler.py`, `cron/scheduler_delivery.py`, `cron/scheduler_preflight.py`, `hermes_cli/cron.py`, `tests/cron/test_cron_reconnect_only_rejection.py`, `tests/cron/test_external_worker_secret_sources.py`, `tests/cron/test_preflight_managed_routes.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_cron.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_cron_satellite_diagnostics.py`, `tests/tools/test_cronjob_run_immediate.py`, `tests/tools/test_cronjob_run_primary_routed.py`, `tools/cronjob_tools.py`
- **#121950: fix(cron): discover plugins in external workers so plugin secret sources hydrate**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#121929`, `#121950`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #126156 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-28`.
- Subsystem: `cron`