# NousResearch/hermes-agent · serve-restart marker cleanup and failure messaging

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #134995: \[Bug\]: pending serve-restart marker is keyed on the stopped PID, every hermes invocation warns until a manual restart
- PR #135003: fix(cli): discharge a serve-restart marker when its respawn is booked failed

These items address how a dashboard respawn error is communicated and how stale serve-restart markers tied to stopped PIDs are properly cleared when a respawn cannot be scheduled.

## 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #134995: \[Bug\]: pending serve-restart marker is keyed on the stopped PID, every hermes invocation warns until a manual restart

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#135003: fix(cli): discharge a serve-restart marker when its respawn is booked failed**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#134328`, `#134995`, `#135155`
  - files: `hermes_cli/dashboard_procs.py`, `hermes_cli/update_serve_obligations.py`, `hermes_cli/update_serve_resume.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_old_updater_takeover.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_stale_dashboard.py`
- **#135155: fix(update): name the remedy when a dashboard respawn fails**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#135003`

## Fix status

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