# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Cron one-shot job incorrectly shows failure status

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #71760: hermes cron run reports 'Ran now: failed.' for a run whose agent session completed cleanly
- PR #71768: fix(cron): report success for one-shot jobs removed after completion (#71760)
- PR #71981: fix(cron): report success for one-shot jobs removed after completion (#71760)

A bug causes cron jobs that run once and are removed after clean completion to be incorrectly reported as having a failure status. Related pull requests address this false status reporting.

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #71760: hermes cron run reports 'Ran now: failed.' for a run whose agent session completed cleanly

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#71768: fix(cron): report success for one-shot jobs removed after completion (#71760)**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `795d1de128d6`, `#63570`, `#71768`, `#71981`, `#76731`, `#57689`, `#374151`, `#71760`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_cronjob_run_immediate.py`, `tools/cronjob_tools.py`
- **#71981: fix(cron): report success for one-shot jobs removed after completion (#71760)**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `27836be79af3`, `#71760`, `#63570`, `#57689`, `#71768`, `#71981`, `#374151`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_cronjob_run_immediate.py`, `tools/cronjob_tools.py`

## Fix status

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