# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Gateway shutdown notification deduplication fixes

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #71180: Gateway re-broadcasts shutdown notification on every process cycle (240 messages during WSL suspend/resume loop)
- PR #71181: fix(gateway): durable cooldown for home-channel shutdown notifications
- PR #71402: fix(gateway): persist shutdown-notification dedup across process restarts

These issues and pull requests address a problem where the gateway repeatedly broadcasts shutdown notifications during rapid restart or suspend/resume cycles. The work involves adding durable, persistent deduplication to prevent redundant notifications across process restarts.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 2 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 1 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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.

## Open related issues

- #71180: Gateway re-broadcasts shutdown notification on every process cycle (240 messages during WSL suspend/resume loop)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#71181: fix(gateway): durable cooldown for home-channel shutdown notifications**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `c55d71b2e`
  - files: `gateway/config.py`, `gateway/config_loader.py`, `gateway/run_shutdown.py`, `gateway/shutdown_notice.py`, `hermes_cli/config_defaults.py`, `tests/gateway/test_shutdown_notice_cooldown.py`
- **#71358: fix(gateway): dedupe shutdown notifications across rapid restart cycles (#71180)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#71181`, `#71180`
- **#71402: fix(gateway): persist shutdown-notification dedup across process restarts**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `wontfix_bydesign`; implication `wontfix`; refs `#71402`
  - files: `gateway/run.py`, `hermes_cli/config_defaults.py`, `tests/gateway/test_71180_shutdown_notify_dedup.py`

## Fix status

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