# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Cron jobs not executing or reporting status, with related fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

Most members concern cron jobs not running, staying in a scheduled state, or giving little diagnostic information, along with proposed changes to how 'run' executes and to gateway-not-running warnings. One member, about propagating CLI command exit codes, is less clearly tied to cron.

## TL;DR

- 7 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 3 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_PARTIAL`): some members are connected by structural evidence (shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference); the rest are joined by an automated relevance judgement over their text.
- Members outside that structural core may belong to a different underlying problem.
- Pairwise link density `0.22`: 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

- #2788: \[Bug\]: Cron jobs never run or when it failed, no useful information is recorded
- #16612: Bug: cronjob run 无法实际触发执行 (job stuck in state: scheduled)
- #21867: \[Bug\]: Cron doesn't work!

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#23074: fix(cron): action='run' now executes job immediately instead of just scheduling (#21867)**. closed without merge · fix tier `suggested`
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `65d7c7fafdf1719fc71ea35466b5c42a6ab1bf15`
- **#2793: fix(cron): warn user when creating cron job if gateway is not running**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#51790`
- **#17516: fix(cron): action='run' executes inline when no gateway ticker is running**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `stale_abandoned`; implication `active`; refs `#16612`
- **#43645: fix: propagate CLI command exit codes**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `wontfix_bydesign`; implication `wontfix`

## Fix status

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