# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Gateway process PID detection false-positive fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

Multiple fixes narrowing the gateway process scanner to match only real gateway subcommands, preventing misidentification of dashboard or other same-profile processes as a running gateway. Includes related Windows restart reliability work.

## TL;DR

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #47120: \[Bug\]: gateway detection matches a same-profile dashboard process; false 'already running' and stop/restart force-kills it

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#47130: fix(gateway): match only real gateway subcommand in PID scan**. closed without merge · fix tier `suggested`
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `fd92a3a5c`, `#47120`
  - _suggested-tier fix detail withheld; re-request with `?tier=all` to include it._
- **#47136: fix(gateway): require gateway subcommand in process scan (#47120)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#47130`, `#47120`
- **#47186: fix(cli): exclude non-gateway subcommands from gateway PID detection (#47120)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`

## Fix status

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