# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Show crash cause in gateway back-online notifications

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #41763: \[Feature\]: Crash-cause diagnostics — parse why the agent died, not just that it restarted
- PR #42528: Crash-cause diagnostics on the gateway "back online" notification
- PR #44275: feat(gateway): show crash cause in the back-online notification after an unclean restart

These items concern adding crash-cause diagnostics to the gateway's 'back online' notification, so users can see why an agent died rather than only that it restarted. The group spans a feature request and an implementation across potentially multiple platforms.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 2 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 0 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_PARTIAL`): some members are connected by structural evidence (shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference); the rest are joined by an automated relevance judgement over their text.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 `0.39`: 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

- #41763: \[Feature\]: Crash-cause diagnostics — parse why the agent died, not just that it restarted

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #41360: \[Feature\]: Cross-platform crash-cause diagnostics — parse *why* the agent died, not just that it restarted

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#42528: Crash-cause diagnostics on the gateway "back online" notification**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `gateway/run.py`, `hermes_cli/crash_diagnostics.py`, `hermes_cli/doctor.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_crash_diagnostics.py`
- **#44275: feat(gateway): show crash cause in the back-online notification after an unclean restart**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `6f13c8a55`
  - files: `gateway/crash_diagnostics.py`, `gateway/run.py`, `tests/gateway/restart_test_helpers.py`, `tests/gateway/test_crash_diagnostics.py`, `tests/gateway/test_restart_notification.py`, `tests/gateway/test_runner_startup_failures.py`

## Fix status

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