# NousResearch/hermes-agent · slash-worker lifecycle issues in terminal Kanban sessions

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern improper spawning or lingering of slash-workers during terminal Kanban sessions, including prevention of unwanted spawns and handling stdin EOF to exit the worker. A related bug reports an untracked writer appearing when resuming such sessions.

## 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 #134102. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #134102 (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: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-134102`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #68779: \[Bug\]: Resuming a terminal Kanban worker session creates an untracked writer while the task remains blocked

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#134102: fix(kanban): refuse to resume a Kanban-owned worker session as an untracked writer**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `hermes_cli/cli_agent_setup_mixin.py`, `hermes_cli/cli_commands_mixin.py`, `hermes_cli/cli_commands_session_tools.py`, `hermes_cli/kanban_resume_guard.py`, `hermes_cli/oneshot.py`, `hermes_state.py`, `locales/af.yaml`, `locales/ar.yaml`, `locales/de.yaml`, `locales/en.yaml`, `locales/es.yaml`, `locales/fr.yaml`, `locales/ga.yaml`, `locales/hu.yaml`, `locales/it.yaml`, `locales/ja.yaml`, `locales/ko.yaml`, `locales/pt.yaml`, `locales/ru.yaml`, `locales/tr.yaml` (+7 more)
- **#68804: fix(tui-gateway): prevent slash-worker spawn for terminal Kanban sessions**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #134102 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-06`.
- Subsystem: `cron`