# NousResearch/hermes-agent · delegate_task children and parent Kanban isolation

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address how delegate_task children interact with the parent's Kanban card, focusing on inheritance behavior and restricting or isolating children from affecting the parent's Kanban lifecycle tools.

## 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 #69837. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #69837 (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: `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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #56647: delegate_task children inherit HERMES_KANBAN_TASK and can complete/block the parent's kanban card

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#69837: fix(kanban): isolate delegate_task children from the parent's Kanban task**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/delegation_context.py`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `hermes_cli/kanban.py`, `hermes_cli/kanban_db.py`, `model_tools.py`, `tests/tools/test_delegate_kanban_isolation.py`, `tests/tools/test_execute_code_approval_cluster.py`, `tests/tools/test_hermes_subprocess_env.py`, `tests/tools/test_voice_mode.py`, `tools/code_execution_tool.py`, `tools/delegate_tool.py`, `tools/environments/local.py`, `tools/kanban_tools.py`, `tools/transcription_tools.py`, `tools/tts_tool.py`, `website/docs/reference/toolsets-reference.md`
- **#56651: fix(delegate): block kanban lifecycle tools for delegated children**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#69837`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #69837 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-07-23`.
- Subsystem: `agent`