# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Cron store write failures block all scheduled jobs

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A bug where an unwritable or full cron store causes the scheduler to abort all jobs on the profile; fixes ensure dispatching continues despite persistence errors, with outage visibility in status, metrics, and diagnostics.

## 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 #133283. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #133283 (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-133283`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #132932: \[Bug\]: a cron store that cannot be written stops every job on the profile (due scan aborts)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#133283: fix(cron): a full or read-only cron store no longer stops the scheduler; jobs catch up once on recovery and the outage shows in cron status, doctor, metrics and the home channel (#132932, salvage #132933)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/monitoring/cron_health.py`, `agent/monitoring/gateway_health_export.py`, `contributors/emails/86016656+PRELVAS94@users.noreply.github.com`, `cron/constants.py`, `cron/executions.py`, `cron/jobs.py`, `cron/occurrences.py`, `cron/scheduler.py`, `cron/scheduler_ownership.py`, `cron/scheduler_tick.py`, `cron/store_health.py`, `cron/unreachable_retry.py`, `gateway/cron_store_notices.py`, `gateway/run_startup.py`, `hermes_cli/cron.py`, `hermes_cli/doctor.py`, `hermes_cli/doctor_state.py`, `locales/af.yaml`, `locales/ar.yaml`, `locales/de.yaml` (+19 more)
- **#132933: fix(cron): keep dispatching when the due scan cannot persist its repairs**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `152aa695bb`, `#133283`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #133283 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-07`.
- Subsystem: `cron`