# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Subagent handle and lifecycle ownership across session rotation

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #138860: Public subagent lifecycle handles stop working after parent-session rotation
- PR #138877: fix(agent): preserve public subagent handles across compression
- PR #138882: fix(plugins): preserve lifecycle ownership across session rotation

These three items appear related: one issue reports public subagent lifecycle handles ceasing to work after parent-session rotation, and two pull requests propose preserving lifecycle ownership or public subagent handles across session rotation and compression. The titles alone do not show whether the changes address the issue or what their current status is.

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #138860: Public subagent lifecycle handles stop working after parent-session rotation

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#138877: fix(agent): preserve public subagent handles across compression**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
  - files: `agent/subagent_lifecycle.py`, `tests/agent/test_subagent_lifecycle.py`
- **#138882: fix(plugins): preserve lifecycle ownership across session rotation**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
  - files: `agent/subagent_lifecycle.py`, `tests/agent/test_subagent_lifecycle_ownership.py`, `tools/delegate_tool_registry.py`, `website/docs/developer-guide/subagent-lifecycle-api.md`

## Fix status

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