# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Add stale watchdog to inline/delegated API calls

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a missing stale detection mechanism on inline non-streaming and delegated direct API call paths, where child_timeout could kill slow calls with no retry. Fixes apply watchdog bounds to both cron and delegation contexts.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #80944. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #80944 (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

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #75222: \[Bug\]: direct_api_call path for delegated children lacks stale detection — child_timeout kills slow API calls with zero retry (side effect of #72412/#60203)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#80944: fix(cron): bound the inline non-streaming call with a stale watchdog (salvage of #80809)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/chat_completion_helpers.py`, `tests/cron/test_cron_direct_api_call_watchdog.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/configuration.md`
- **#75301: fix(delegation): add stale watchdog to inline API calls**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `1e5b50744`, `#80944`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #80944 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-07`.