# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Gateway lock ownership and cron liveness fixes

## Open now

- 1 issue, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #18631: Add CLI-level regression coverage for shared-lock cron status

These members address bugs and regression coverage around shared runtime lock ownership in the gateway and how the cron/builtin-ticker subsystem trusts that lock to determine liveness. A recurring concern is preventing scoped status polls from incorrectly deleting or overwriting a live foreign gateway's pid or lock state.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 2 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #106516. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #106516 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #18631: Add CLI-level regression coverage for shared-lock cron status

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#96214: fix(cron): trust the gateway runtime lock for builtin-ticker liveness (salvage #95947)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `hermes_cli/cron.py`, `tests/cron/test_87033_cronjob_gateway_liveness.py`
- **#106516: fix(gateway): scoped profile status polls no longer delete a live foreign gateway's pid/lock (#106406, salvage #106454 #104113)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `gateway/status.py`, `tests/gateway/test_status.py`
- **#79566: fix(gateway): preserve shared runtime lock ownership**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#96214`, `#106516`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #106516 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-09`.
- Subsystem: `cron`