# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Async delegation: child reports success despite missing required toolsets

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #63887: Async delegation: child reports 'completed' with fabricated success when the goal requires toolsets it cannot have
- PR #63897: fix(delegate): add capability precheck to prevent fabricated success when goal requires unavailable tools
- PR #63899: fix(delegate): surface child's resolved toolsets in async completion block (#63887)

These items concern async delegation, where a child agent may report 'completed' even though its goal requires toolsets it lacks. Two members propose fixes: a capability precheck and showing the child's computed toolsets in the completion block. The third describes the problem itself.

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #63887: Async delegation: child reports 'completed' with fabricated success when the goal requires toolsets it cannot have

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#63897: fix(delegate): add capability precheck to prevent fabricated success when goal requires unavailable tools**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#63899`, `#63897`
  - files: `tools/delegate_tool.py`
- **#63899: fix(delegate): surface child's resolved toolsets in async completion block (#63887)**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `154873a1b7a5`, `#63887`, `#63897`, `#63899`, `#374151`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_process_registry.py`, `tools/delegate_tool.py`, `tools/delegate_tool_child_run.py`, `tools/process_registry_notifications.py`

## Fix status

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