# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Cron preamble SILENT instruction placement and customization

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #69495: \[Bug\]: \[SILENT\] injection in cron prompts causes LLM agents to bail without executing — and no way to customize the injected preamble
- PR #69573: fix(cron): make injected preamble user-configurable via prompt_prefix + strengthen SILENT instruction (#69495)
- PR #70627: fix: move \[SILENT\] instruction after user prompt in cron preamble (#69495)

A bug report and two fixes addressing how the \[SILENT\] instruction is injected into cron job prompts for LLM agents, covering both its position relative to the user prompt and adding user-configurable prefix options.

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #69495: \[Bug\]: \[SILENT\] injection in cron prompts causes LLM agents to bail without executing — and no way to customize the injected preamble

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#69573: fix(cron): make injected preamble user-configurable via prompt_prefix + strengthen SILENT instruction (#69495)**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `10b4ddea5c53`, `#69495`, `#69573`, `#70627`, `#374151`
  - files: `cron/jobs.py`, `cron/scheduler.py`, `hermes_cli/profiles.py`, `tools/cronjob_tools.py`
- **#70627: fix: move \[SILENT\] instruction after user prompt in cron preamble (#69495)**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#56512`
  - files: `cron/scheduler.py`

## Fix status

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