# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Cron ticker silent failure detection and resilience

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and fixes all concern the cron ticker thread dying or stalling silently without logging errors, triggering alerts, or recovering automatically. Work spans detection, watchdog supervision, exception hardening, heartbeat tracking, and lock-bound stall prevention.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 2 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.67`: 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

- #36854: Cron ticker silently dies when prompt-injection scanner blocks a job — entire cron scheduler stops until gateway restart

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#38718: fix(cron): NameError get_fallback_chain + silent ticker death + tick() blocks (#36734 #36854 #37312)**. closed without merge · fix tier `suggested`
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#37312`, `#39008`, `#36734`, `#36854`
  - _suggested-tier fix detail withheld; re-request with `?tier=all` to include it._
- **#36945: fix(gateway): keep cron ticker alive after tick failures**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#38718`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.