# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Gateway graceful degradation when platforms fail

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and pull requests address the gateway crashing or exiting when messaging platform adapters fail to connect, proposing circuit breaker logic and graceful degradation instead. Work includes a per-platform circuit breaker and a /platform status endpoint.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #22853. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #22853 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-22853`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #5196: Gateway exits with error when any messaging platform fails to connect (should degrade gracefully)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#22853: fix(gateway): degrade gracefully when all platform adapters are missing (carve-out of #22642)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `gateway/run.py`, `tests/gateway/test_runner_startup_failures.py`
- **#22642: fix(gateway): degrade gracefully when all platform adapters are missing**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#22853`, `#5196`, `#22357`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #22853 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-05-10`.
- Subsystem: `gateway`