# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Kanban worker tool preservation with restricted toolsets

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These members address a bug where kanban workers lose or have their tools incorrectly affected when restricted toolsets are in use, related to context pollution from parent sessions.

## 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 #28396. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #28396 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #26730: Kanban workers fail due to context pollution from parent session

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#28396: fix(kanban): preserve worker tools with restricted toolsets (#26846)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `model_tools.py`, `tests/tools/test_kanban_tools.py`
- **#26846: fix(kanban): preserve worker tools with restricted toolsets**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `c30608cfbe72efd51b607b115665145417600883`, `#28396`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #28396 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-05-19`.
- Subsystem: `agent`