# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Move dashboard-client heartbeat file write off event loop

## Open now

- 1 issue, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #139011: \[Bug\]: blocking heartbeat file touch on the gateway event loop stalls the owner; managed workers die with owner_unavailable

Three members concern the dashboard-client heartbeat marker write: one bug report describes a blocking file touch on the gateway event loop stalling the owner, with managed workers reporting owner_unavailable, and two pull requests (scale-to-zero and tui) propose moving that write off the connection path or event loop. Whether these changes address the bug is not stated in the titles.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #139274. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #139274 (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: `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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #139011: \[Bug\]: blocking heartbeat file touch on the gateway event loop stalls the owner; managed workers die with owner_unavailable

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#139274: fix(gateway): finite Kanban card turns, off-loop heartbeat write, no foreign-ABI venv overlay**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `gateway/run.py`, `gateway/session_authority.py`, `gateway/session_kanban.py`, `hermes_state_runtime.py`, `pm/environments.py`, `tests/gateway/test_kanban_finite_admission.py`, `tests/gateway/test_scale_to_zero_dashboard_client.py`, `tests/gateway/test_windows_venv_import_guard.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_runtime_paths.py`, `tui_gateway/ws.py`
- **#139023: fix(tui): write the dashboard-client heartbeat marker off the event loop**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#139274`, `#134889`, `#139036`, `#139011`
- **#139036: fix(scale-to-zero): keep the dashboard-client heartbeat write off the connection path**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#139274`, `#134889`, `#139023`, `#139011`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #139274 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-15`.
- Subsystem: `dashboard`