# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Cron job delivery retry and failure handling

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #63695: blocker-report: dan-blockers cron delivery/network failures
- PR #16645: fix(cron): retry delivery from cached output instead of re-running the agent (#8846)
- PR #64085: fix(cron): add pending delivery retry for failed cron job outputs (#63695)

These items concern failures in cron job output delivery and the addition of retry logic that uses cached output rather than re-running the agent. The work addresses both network-level delivery failures and the mechanism for retrying pending deliveries.

## 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #63695: blocker-report: dan-blockers cron delivery/network failures

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#16645: fix(cron): retry delivery from cached output instead of re-running the agent (#8846)**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `cron/jobs.py`, `cron/scheduler.py`, `tests/cron/test_delivery_retry.py`
- **#64085: fix(cron): add pending delivery retry for failed cron job outputs (#63695)**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#64085`
  - files: `cron/scheduler.py`

## Fix status

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