# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Cron hard-aborts when all skills fail to load

## Open now

- 1 issue, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #77362: Cron: skill-load failure should hard-abort with delivered error, not fall through to contextless LLM call

These issues and PRs address a bug where skill-load failures in cron jobs silently fell through to a contextless LLM call instead of hard-aborting with the delivered error. The fix ensures a hard-abort occurs when all declared skills fail to load.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 3 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #77362: Cron: skill-load failure should hard-abort with delivered error, not fall through to contextless LLM call

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#77446: fix(cron): hard-abort when all declared skills fail to load**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `bd9ece7163a8`, `#77362`, `#77446`, `#374151`
- **#77541: fix(cron): hard-abort when all declared skills fail to load (#77362)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `9658f8c10377`, `#77362`, `#77446`, `#77541`, `#1`, `#15803`, `#14532`, `#6`, `#9`, `#374151`, `#4338`
- **#78270: fix(cron): hard-abort when all skills fail to load, not silent contextless LLM call (#77362)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#77446`

## Fix status

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