# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Kanban decomposed children runtime bounds propagation

## Open now

- 2 issues, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #54089: Decomposed Kanban children lose runtime bounds
- #63209: Kanban: enforce native runtime/retry floors on auto-decomposed children
- PR #54104: fix(kanban): propagate max_runtime_seconds to decomposed children (#54089)

These issues and PRs concern a problem where auto-decomposed Kanban children do not inherit or enforce runtime and retry limits from their parent. The work involves propagating max_runtime_seconds and related bounds to decomposed children.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 2 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 1 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_PARTIAL`): some members are connected by structural evidence (shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference); the rest are joined by an automated relevance judgement over their text.
- Members outside that structural core may belong to a different underlying problem.
- Pairwise link density `0.39`: 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

- #54089: Decomposed Kanban children lose runtime bounds
- #63209: Kanban: enforce native runtime/retry floors on auto-decomposed children

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#54104: fix(kanban): propagate max_runtime_seconds to decomposed children (#54089)**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#54106`
  - files: `hermes_cli/kanban_db.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_decompose_db.py`
- **#66405: fix(kanban): bound decomposed child runtimes**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#54104`, `#66404`

## Fix status

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