# NousResearch/hermes-agent · One-shot cron job stuck or lost edge cases

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and fixes address scenarios where one-shot cron jobs can become permanently stuck or silently lost, particularly around claim_dispatch timing, scheduler restarts, unconfirmed dispatches, and unhandled exceptions.

## 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 #74134. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #74134 (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-74134`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #73973: One-shot cron jobs can get permanently stuck when claim_dispatch() increments completed before execution completes

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#74134: fix(cron): record failure for BaseException escapes; diagnostic on wedged one-shot removal**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `cron/jobs.py`, `cron/scheduler.py`, `tests/cron/test_jobs.py`, `tests/cron/test_run_one_job.py`
- **#74098: fix(cron): retire unconfirmed one-shot dispatches instead of deleting them**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `cff9728587da4f3c0beed0786f9bea528e489f13`, `#73973`
- **#74110: fix(cron): one-shot jobs stuck when scheduler restarts between claim_dispatch and execution (#73973)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `cff9728587da4f3c0beed0786f9bea528e489f13`, `#73973`, `#74134`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #74134 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-07-29`.
- Subsystem: `cron`