# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Transport-recovery error handling for socket-layer failures

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #52216: \[Bug\]: BrokenPipeError skips connection-pool rebuild in transport-recovery gate
- PR #52226: fix(agent): rebuild connection pool for socket-layer transport errors (BrokenPipe, ConnectionReset, etc.)
- PR #52227: fix(agent): align transport-recovery error set with error classifier

These members address a bug where socket-layer errors like BrokenPipeError and ConnectionResetError were not triggering connection-pool rebuilds, and work to align the transport-recovery error set with the error classifier.

## TL;DR

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

## Open related issues

- #52216: \[Bug\]: BrokenPipeError skips connection-pool rebuild in transport-recovery gate

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#52226: fix(agent): rebuild connection pool for socket-layer transport errors (BrokenPipe, ConnectionReset, etc.)**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `agent/agent_runtime_helpers.py`, `tests/run_agent/test_primary_runtime_restore.py`
- **#52227: fix(agent): align transport-recovery error set with error classifier**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#52216`, `#52226`, `#52231`
  - files: `agent/agent_runtime_helpers.py`

## Fix status

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