# NousResearch/hermes-agent · npm audit doctor behavior with min-release-age cooldown

## Open now

- 1 issue, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #78893: \[Bug\]: doctor's npm-audit remediation is unusable under the repo's own .npmrc min-release-age=14 — no-op, then ETARGET on --force

These items concern a bug and related fixes around the doctor command's npm audit remediation becoming ineffective or erroring when a min-release-age constraint is active in .npmrc. The work involves surfacing clearer explanations and annotations about the cooldown's effect on remediation.

## TL;DR

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #78893: \[Bug\]: doctor's npm-audit remediation is unusable under the repo's own .npmrc min-release-age=14 — no-op, then ETARGET on --force

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#78939: fix(doctor): explain npm audit release-age cooldown**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#78938`, `#78893`
- **#79028: fix(doctor): annotate npm audit remediation affected by min-release-age cooldown**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#78938`

## Fix status

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