# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Dispatcher retry logic and resilience improvements

## Open now

- 1 issue, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #30417: Dispatcher resilience: deterministic spawn-crash loop, transient SQLite I/O latches dispatch off, archived-parent silently promotes children

These items concern making the kanban dispatcher more resilient through adaptive retry strategies, model escalation, exponential backoff, and handling of edge cases like SQLite I/O errors, spawn-crash loops, and archived-parent promotion.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 3 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #30417: Dispatcher resilience: deterministic spawn-crash loop, transient SQLite I/O latches dispatch off, archived-parent silently promotes children

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#31932: fix(gateway): replace permanent corrupt-board latch with exponential backoff**. closed without merge · fix tier `suggested`
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `c94ad8981`
  - _suggested-tier fix detail withheld; re-request with `?tier=all` to include it._
- **#30608: feat: adaptive retry with model escalation for kanban dispatcher**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
- **#30620: feat(cli): adaptive retry with model escalation for kanban dispatcher**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`

## Fix status

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