# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Kanban respawn guard and stale rate-limit error text

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #126190: \[Bug\]: Kanban task stuck in ready forever: stale rate-limit text in last_failure_error trips respawn guard blocker_auth after dependency promotion
- PR #126212: fix(kanban): clear stale rate-limit text when recompute_ready promotes a card

These items all concern the Kanban respawn guard and stale rate-limit text left in last_failure_error, which one bug report links to a task staying in ready after dependency promotion. The two fix-titled items appear to address this by using run outcomes instead of error prose and by clearing stale text when recompute_ready promotes a card.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 1 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `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.

## Open related issues

- #126190: \[Bug\]: Kanban task stuck in ready forever: stale rate-limit text in last_failure_error trips respawn guard blocker_auth after dependency promotion

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#126212: fix(kanban): clear stale rate-limit text when recompute_ready promotes a card**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `c92379513d`
  - files: `hermes_cli/kanban_db.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_db.py`
- **#142737: fix(kanban): respawn guard decides from run outcomes, never from error prose**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `stale_abandoned`; implication `active`

## Fix status

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