# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Delegation cleanup deleting results before delivery

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #65853: Delegation cleanup can delete results before delivery
- PR #65860: fix(delegation): preserve pending results during cleanup

These issues and pull requests address a bug where delegation cleanup prematurely deletes pending results before the parent has received them. Multiple fix attempts and approaches are represented across the members.

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.40`: 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

- #65853: Delegation cleanup can delete results before delivery

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#65860: fix(delegation): preserve pending results during cleanup**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_async_delegation.py`, `tools/async_delegation.py`
- **#65886: fix(delegation): cleanup must not delete undelivered results before parent receives them**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#65860`
- **#65955: fix: prevent delegation cleanup from deleting results before delivery (#65853)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`
- **#72620: fix(delegation): stop in-memory prune deleting results before delivery (#65853, salvage of #65955)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`

## Fix status

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