# NousResearch/hermes-agent · launchd gateway restart skipped during update

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and PRs address a bug where a booted-out launchd gateway is silently skipped during the update process, causing the update to exit successfully with the gateway dead and deregistered. Related work also extends update planning so missed restart-phase runtimes are tracked and fail the update rather than going unnoticed.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 2 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #92963. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #92963 (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: `unresolved`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

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- 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

- #74973: \[Bug\]: macOS: hermes update silently skips the gateway restart when the launchd job is already booted out — update exits 0 with the gateway dead and deregistered

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#92902: feat(update): planned runtimes the restart phase misses now fail the update — plan becomes the worklist (#91277 Phase 2, salvage #88949)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `hermes_cli/gateway.py`, `hermes_cli/update_cmd.py`, `hermes_cli/update_inventory.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_plan_reconciliation_windows_live.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_restart_plan_reconciliation.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_inventory.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_launchd_fleet_restart.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_launchd_restart_verification.py`
- **#92963: fix(update): booted-out launchd gateways get restarted, never silently skipped (#74973, salvage #75021)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `hermes_cli/update_cmd.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_launchd_restart_verification.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_launchd_unloaded_gateway.py`
- **#75021: fix(update): restart a booted-out launchd gateway instead of skipping it (#74973)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `bee489d5638d98517942f9618b9da94abd581a8d`, `#92963`, `#92902`, `#74973`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #92963 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-25`.
- Subsystem: `hermes_cli`