# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Weixin rate-limit circuit breaker infinite retry loop

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #77836: Weixin: rate limit circuit breaker creates infinite retry loop — cooldown resets on every retry attempt
- PR #78048: fix(gateway/weixin): stop rate-limit circuit breaker infinite retry loop
- PR #126213: fix(weixin): surface the remaining cooldown as retry_after on rate-limited sends

These issues and PRs address a bug in the Weixin gateway where the rate-limit circuit breaker resets its cooldown on every retry attempt, causing an infinite loop. Related work surfaces the remaining cooldown duration as a retry_after value on rate-limited sends.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 2 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 0 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.67`: 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.

## Open related issues

- #77836: Weixin: rate limit circuit breaker creates infinite retry loop — cooldown resets on every retry attempt

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#78048: fix(gateway/weixin): stop rate-limit circuit breaker infinite retry loop**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#60459`, `#77836`
  - files: `gateway/platforms/weixin.py`, `tests/gateway/test_weixin.py`
- **#126213: fix(weixin): surface the remaining cooldown as retry_after on rate-limited sends**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `gateway/platforms/base.py`, `plugins/platforms/weixin/adapter.py`, `tests/gateway/test_send_retry.py`, `tests/gateway/test_weixin_plugin.py`

## Fix status

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