# NousResearch/hermes-agent · /goal completion behavior: quality gates and over-continuation handling

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

The members all concern how the /goal feature decides whether a goal is complete. One proposes deterministic quality-gate commands that must pass before completion, while the other two describe the judge over-continuing exploratory or narrow-scope goals and a related change addressing that.

## 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 #79680. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #79680 (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: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-79680`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #34196: /goal judge over-continues exploratory goals unless the assistant explicitly says the goal is complete

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#79680: feat(goals): quality gates — deterministic commands that must pass before /goal completes**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `gateway/run.py`, `gateway/slash_commands.py`, `hermes_cli/cli_commands_mixin.py`, `hermes_cli/commands.py`, `hermes_cli/goals.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_goal_gates.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/goals.md`
- **#34343: fix(goals): stop /goal over-continuation on exploratory + scope-narrow goals (#34196, #34197)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#107938`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #79680 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-06`.
- Subsystem: `agent`