# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Photon iMessage sidecar death and silent reconnect spiral

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

The three members concern the Photon iMessage sidecar: one issue reports that its death leads to a silent reconnect spiral with no respawn, and two pull requests propose fixes. One PR mentions a health-check server and restart counter reset, but the titles don't show whether any change has been merged or has worked.

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #49858: Photon iMessage: sidecar death causes silent reconnect death spiral (no respawn)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#49876: fix(photon): stop silent sidecar reconnect death spiral**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `9578e52795e35f8373fb43e9b5457beb8f279f71`, `#49858`
- **#53197: fix(photon): prevent sidecar death spiral with health-check server and restart counter reset**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#73563`

## Fix status

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