# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Relay scope pop errors and related fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These members share a focus on a bug in Relay's scope.pop behavior, including a crash caused by unsupported metadata and an associated fix. The third item groups several unrelated resource-leak fixes alongside the Relay issue, making the overall cluster only partially coherent.

## 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 #86755. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #86755 (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-86755`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #78993: Memory leak: relay_runtime.pop() TypeError crashes Gateway and fills SWAP to 100%

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#86755: fix: purge resource-leak cluster — thread output FDs, browser daemons, pet image cache, Relay scope pop, session leases**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/pet/generate/orchestrate.py`, `agent/relay_llm.py`, `agent/relay_runtime.py`, `agent/thread_scoped_output.py`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `hermes_cli/active_sessions.py`, `hermes_cli/observability/relay_shared_metrics.py`, `tests/agent/test_pet_generate.py`, `tests/agent/test_relay_scope_pop_metadata.py`, `tests/agent/test_thread_scoped_output.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_active_sessions.py`, `tests/tools/test_browser_orphan_reaper.py`, `tools/browser_tool.py`
- **#79016: fix(agent): omit unsupported metadata on Relay scope.pop (#78993)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#86755`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #86755 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-15`.
- Subsystem: `agent`