# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Bounding gateway background delivery retry loops with backoff and limits

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #141893: Async delegation watcher retries stranded pending deliveries every 2s forever (no backoff, no attempt accounting)
- PR #141959: fix(gateway): bound the async-completion delivery loop with backoff and a replay-age drop

Three members concern background or async deliveries in the gateway that appear to be retried repeatedly without backoff or attempt accounting. Two are fix proposals: one makes refused deliveries settle across several delivery types, and the other adds backoff and a replay-age drop. The third describes the 2-second indefinite retry behavior in the async delegation watcher.

## TL;DR

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #141893: Async delegation watcher retries stranded pending deliveries every 2s forever (no backoff, no attempt accounting)

## 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)
- **#141959: fix(gateway): bound the async-completion delivery loop with backoff and a replay-age drop**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#141926`, `#141893`
  - files: `gateway/run_notifications.py`, `tests/gateway/test_async_delivery_retry_bounds.py`, `tools/async_delegation.py`

## 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`