# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Cron agent stream hang and watchdog fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a cron agent hang caused by open streams never being stale-killed and missing job-run or failure delivery, along with related fixes for bounding Codex iteration summaries, refreshing liveness on progress, and recovering silent streams with scoped cleanup.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #121542. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #121542 (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-121542`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #70943: cron agent hang on xai-oauth/codex_responses: open stream never stale-kills; no mark_job_run / failure delivery

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#121542: fix(codex): app-server progress refreshes liveness; large-context watchdogs for all hosted codex_responses; bounded cron summary**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/chat_completion_helpers.py`, `agent/codex_runtime.py`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `tests/agent/test_codex_app_server_event_bridge.py`, `tests/agent/test_responses_watchdog_accommodations.py`, `tests/agent/test_run_agent.py`, `tests/agent/transports/test_codex_app_server_session.py`
- **#71557: fix(cron): bound Codex max-iteration summaries**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `7fb8736a1e`, `#121542`, `#70943`
- **#83355: fix(agent): recover silent streams and scoped cleanup**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#121542`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #121542 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-24`.
- Subsystem: `agent`