# NousResearch/hermes-agent · SQLite lock misread as lease loss fix

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a bug where a transient SQLite lock on state.db was incorrectly treated as a lost lease, causing healthy long-running turns to be hard-interrupted. The work involves preventing that false lease-loss signal from terminating active turns.

## 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 #134577. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #134577 (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-134577`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #126667: \[Bug\]: Lease refresher treats a transient SQLite lock as lease loss, hard-interrupting healthy long turns

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#134577: A busy state.db no longer kills a running turn as a lost lease (#126667, salvage #126671)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/turn_facade_lease.py`, `hermes_state_compression.py`, `tests/agent/test_turn_facade_lease.py`
- **#126671: fix(agent): do not interrupt a turn when lease refresh hits a SQLite lock**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `c538ec5f402`, `bae3a010121`, `23cd9902684`, `b8788c3cb12`, `#134577`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #134577 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-07`.
- Subsystem: `agent`