# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Kanban complete goal-mode judge_goal return value unpacking mismatch

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

Members appear to concern the kanban completion gate in goal mode, where code unpacks the result of judge_goal() as three values while it is described as returning four. Some items are bug reports and others are fix proposals, and they describe the effects differently (a ValueError caught by a fail-open handler versus an orchestrator crash).

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 2 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 3 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_PARTIAL`): some members are connected by structural evidence (shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference); the rest are joined by an automated relevance judgement over their text.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 `0.34`: 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

- #59762: kanban_complete\` goal-mode judge gate never rejects: 3-target unpack of 4-tuple \`judge_goal()\` raises \`ValueError\`, caught by the fail-open handler
- #61490: Bug: kanban_tools.py L605 — judge_goal 3-value unpack crashes orchestrator in --goal mode

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#61498: fix(tools): unpack all 4 judge_goal() return values in kanban complete gate**. closed without merge · fix tier `suggested`
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#57276`, `#61500`, `#61490`
  - _suggested-tier fix detail withheld; re-request with `?tier=all` to include it._
- **#61510: fix(kanban): unpack goal judge wait result**. closed without merge · fix tier `suggested`
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#57276`
  - _suggested-tier fix detail withheld; re-request with `?tier=all` to include it._
- **#59849: fix(tools): honor goal judge verdict in kanban_complete gate**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#57276`, `#58066`

## Fix status

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