# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Kanban stop nudge persisting after rejected terminal handoff

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #136843: \[Bug\]: a REJECTED kanban_complete counts as a terminal handoff, silently disabling the worker stop-nudge for the rest of the session
- PR #136845: fix(kanban): keep stop nudge after rejected handoff
- PR #138607: fix(agent): keep the kanban stop nudge after a REJECTED terminal call

These items concern the kanban worker stop-nudge being disabled when a kanban_complete call is REJECTED but still treated as a terminal handoff. One is a bug report and two are fix proposals aimed at keeping the nudge after a rejected handoff; their status is not established here.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 2 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 0 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #136843: \[Bug\]: a REJECTED kanban_complete counts as a terminal handoff, silently disabling the worker stop-nudge for the rest of the session

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#136845: fix(kanban): keep stop nudge after rejected handoff**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
  - files: `agent/kanban_stop.py`, `tests/agent/test_kanban_stop.py`
- **#138607: fix(agent): keep the kanban stop nudge after a REJECTED terminal call**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `agent/kanban_stop.py`, `tests/agent/test_kanban_stop.py`

## Fix status

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