# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Bound unbounded lifecycle guard scan work

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These members address a performance problem where the lifecycle guard's referenced-script scan was unbounded in breadth and total bytes, causing excessive CPU usage and multi-GB transient allocations on every terminal call. The work involves limiting the scope of this whole-walk scan.

## 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 #101652. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #101652 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #78398: lifecycle_guard: referenced-script scan is unbounded in breadth and total bytes — ~1 core in shlex and multi-GB transients on every terminal call

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#101652: perf(cron): bound the lifecycle guard's whole-walk scan work (#78398)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `cron/lifecycle_guard.py`, `tests/cron/test_lifecycle_guard_budget.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_gateway_restart_loop.py`, `tools/terminal_tool.py`
- **#83821: perf(cron): bound lifecycle guard scan work**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#101652`, `#78398`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #101652 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-02`.
- Subsystem: `cron`