# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Kanban dead-attempt claim release and owner receipt handling

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

The members appear related to Kanban worker dispatch: one bug report describes a running card with an unresolved owner receipt and no worker_bound event that dispatcher paths cannot reclaim, and one PR title proposes releasing a dead attempt's claim in that situation. A third item bundles several Kanban worker changes (session_search, slot freeing, explanation of missing delegate_task), which only partly overlaps the first two.

## 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 #141906. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #141906 (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-141906`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #140858: \[Bug\]: a running card with an unresolved owner receipt and no worker_bound event is unreclaimable by every dispatcher path

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#141906: Kanban workers: session_search works, dead attempts free their slot, missing delegate_task is explained (#141705, #140858, #141793)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/conversation_loop.py`, `agent/tool_executor.py`, `hermes_cli/kanban_db.py`, `hermes_cli/kanban_db_context.py`, `hermes_cli/kanban_db_dispatch.py`, `hermes_cli/kanban_diagnostics.py`, `hermes_cli/kanban_owner_recovery.py`, `hermes_cli/kanban_worker_log.py`, `model_tools.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_owner_receipt_reclaim.py`, `tests/tools/test_managed_worker_tool_diagnostics.py`, `tests/tools/test_preview_scope_gate.py`, `tests/tools/test_session_search_worker_store.py`, `tools/session_search_tool.py`, `tools/tool_search.py`, `tools/tool_search_validation.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/kanban-worker-lanes.md`
- **#140859: fix(kanban): release a dead attempt's claim when its owner receipt cannot be resolved**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#141906`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #141906 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-20`.
- Subsystem: `cron`