# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Background deliveries refused by gateway admission looping or requeuing repeatedly

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

The members concern background completions or deliveries that the gateway refuses with an admission conflict, particularly when pinned to a reset session, and that appear to be requeued repeatedly instead of being delivered or dropped. One is a bug report, and the other two are fix proposals aimed at settling such deliveries or bounding requeues with backoff.

## 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 #141926. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #141926 (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-141926`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #141562: \[Bug\]: Background completions pinned to a reset session are refused admission_conflict forever — never delivered, never dropped

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#141926: fix: background deliveries the unified gateway refuses settle instead of looping (watch, async, cron, Bot Chat, DM)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/thread/assistant-message.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/ar_assistant.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/de.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/de_notices.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/en.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/en_error_layers.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/es.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/es_notices.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/fr.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/fr_notices.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/ja.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/ja_notices.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/ru.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/ru_notices.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/zh-hant_assistant.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/zh.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/zh_notices.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/error-surface.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/error-surface.ts`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]` (+34 more)
- **#140911: fix(gateway): bound watch-drain requeues with backoff after refused admission**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `a9b2968381`, `#141926`, `#140899`, `#141562`, `#142115`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #141926 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-20`.
- Subsystem: `gateway`