# NousResearch/hermes-agent · MCP server reconnection and process tracking fixes, including cron sessions

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

Most members concern MCP server lifecycle: lazily reconnecting or restarting when a session is stale or a transport errors, including an issue about ECONNREFUSED in cron jobs. Two others are about tracking descendant or grandchild processes of shell-wrapper MCP servers, which is a related but distinct theme.

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 4 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.40`: 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

- #26042: MCP servers unavailable in cron sessions — ECONNREFUSED when accessing MCP tools from scheduled jobs

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#26125: fix(mcp): lazy reconnect on dead session + transport errors for cron jobs**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#23540`
- **#26304: fix(mcp): lazy restart MCP server on tool call when session is stale (#26042)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#23540`
- **#27516: fix(mcp): track grandchildren of shell-wrapper MCP servers**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `a29d64e50ce40bd78d63146f5c2653e60301d7c3`, `#24003`, `#17692`
- **#40110: fix(mcp): recursive descendant PID tracking for shell-wrapper MCP servers**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `cron`