# NousResearch/hermes-agent · delegate_task hangs with zero API calls under specific conditions

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

Reports a bug where delegate_task hangs and makes no API calls when combining web access, a secondary toolset, long context, and max_iterations of roughly 20 or more. Both members describe the same issue.

## TL;DR

- 2 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 2 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 0 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix found: no merged or attempted fix PR is on record for this cluster.
- **Recommended:** if this matches your symptom, consider adding to the existing issue(s) below rather than opening a new one.

## 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 (`LLM_ONLY`): no structural link between members; the grouping rests entirely on an automated relevance judgement over their text.
- Read the members yourself before treating them as one problem.
- Pairwise link density `0.36`: 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

- #14724: Bug Report: delegate_task hangs with 0 API calls when web + secondary toolset + long context + max_iterations >= ~20
- #14726: delegate_task hangs with 0 API calls when web + secondary toolset + long context + max_iterations >= ~20

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.