# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Cron job inactivity timer affected by host sleep

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a bug where time spent with the host asleep is incorrectly counted toward cron job inactivity, causing jobs to be killed prematurely. Two are fix attempts and one is the corresponding bug report.

## 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 #131682. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #131682 (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-131682`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #131523: Cron jobs are killed for inactivity after the host sleeps: sleep time counts as idle time

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#131682: fix(cron): stop counting host sleep as job inactivity**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/session_activity.py`, `agent/turn_liveness.py`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `cron/scheduler.py`, `tests/agent/test_turn_liveness_watchdog.py`, `tests/cron/test_cron_inactivity_timeout.py`, `website/docs/developer-guide/cron-internals.md`
- **#131524: fix(cron): stop counting host sleep as job inactivity**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #131682 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-02`.