# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Cron dispatch failures not creating incidents or alerts

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A bug was identified where cron job dispatch failures to external workers produced no incident record and no failure notification. Related fixes address surfacing these failures through the incident and alerting path.

## 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 #124013. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #124013 (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-124013`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #123401: \[BUG\] Cron dispatch failures create no incident and send no failure notification

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#124013: fix(cron): alert on restart-safe worker dispatch failures (salvage #123432)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `cron/scheduler.py`, `tests/cron/test_restart_safe_worker.py`
- **#123432: fix(cron): surface external-worker dispatch failures through the incident path**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `ffe5cf049de79c07b78756668e2c2ba72fd0e99a`, `#124013`
- **#123433: fix(cron): record incident and deliver notice on external worker dispatch failure (#123401)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `ffe5cf049de79c07b78756668e2c2ba72fd0e99a`, `#124013`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #124013 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-26`.