# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Cron delivery falsely confirmed without positive evidence

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A bug caused cron agent jobs to log messages as delivered even when no actual delivery occurred, particularly with empty payloads. The fixes require positive evidence before confirming delivery, so empty or \`failed\` deliveries are no longer reported as successful.

## 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 #100908. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #100908 (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-100908`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #77763: # \[Bug\] Cron agent job logs "delivered" but message never sent to Telegram

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#100908: fix(cron): live-adapter delivery is confirmed by positive evidence, empty payloads fail closed, cron pushes notify (#77763, salvage #100284 #58262)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `cron/jobs.py`, `cron/scheduler.py`, `gateway/delivery.py`, `hermes_cli/config_defaults.py`, `hermes_cli/cron.py`, `tests/cron/test_cron_live_delivery_confirmation.py`, `tests/gateway/test_delivery_silence_filter.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_cron.py`, `tools/cronjob_tools.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/cron.md`
- **#77792: fix(cron): do not report empty delivery as delivered (#77763)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `00a7115a02`, `#100908`, `#100284`, `#77763`
- **#100284: fix(cron): require positive evidence for live-adapter delivery confirmation**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `00a7115a02`, `#100908`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #100908 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-02`.
- Subsystem: `cron`