# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Kanban hard-delete and removal of archived tasks

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern adding the ability to permanently delete or remove archived tasks from the Kanban board, via a trash zone, bulk delete, or a CLI archive --rm flag.

## 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 #28355. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #28355 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #19913: \[Feature\]: Kanban Delete archived jobs

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#28355: feat(kanban): archive --rm to hard-delete archived tasks (#19964)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `hermes_cli/kanban.py`, `hermes_cli/kanban_db.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_core_functionality.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_db.py`
- **#19964: Add kanban archive --rm for archived tasks**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `bde6313e3`, `#28355`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #28355 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-05-19`.
- Subsystem: `hermes_cli`