# NousResearch/hermes-agent · macOS launchd gateway /restart hang and teardown handling

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These members all concern the gateway's /restart behavior under macOS launchd, including a detached watcher that may hang and a process that may stay alive after teardown so KeepAlive still sees it as running. They include a proposed hard-exit change and a verification-tagged item, but the titles alone don't establish what the outcome is.

## 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #45361: macOS launchd: /restart can leave the gateway process alive-but-torn-down — kill -0 respawn watcher deadlocks, KeepAlive sees it 'running' (distinct from #43475)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#45380: fix(gateway): hard-exit launchd service restarts after teardown**. closed without merge · fix tier `suggested`
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `cde3ca4ebf59e42a422c2239d917b5124a59ec5e`
- **#45390: \[verified\] Avoid hung detached /restart watcher on launchd**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `abc3662bf6076045e4d4dc1e14a74cb35d69b86e`, `e860a40e14b1e936ab2e5ad646546380ad0a4e57`

## Fix status

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