# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Fix cron environment leaking into gateway sessions

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #81451: Workdir cron can contaminate concurrent gateway sessions via process-global TERMINAL_CWD
- PR #124772: fix(terminal): isolate local cron run environments

These items address a bug where TERMINAL_CWD, set globally by cron runs, can contaminate concurrent gateway sessions. The fixes involve snapshotting the variable at session bind time and isolating local cron run environments.

## TL;DR

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #81451: Workdir cron can contaminate concurrent gateway sessions via process-global TERMINAL_CWD

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#81516: fix(gateway): snapshot TERMINAL_CWD at session bind to block cron leaks**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `stale_abandoned`; implication `active`
- **#124772: fix(terminal): isolate local cron run environments**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `6991a48ef56494a8b33264dcca7675083144c3b8`
  - files: `cron/scheduler.py`, `cron/scheduler_detached_worker.py`, `cron/scheduler_run_cleanup.py`, `cron/scheduler_run_scope.py`, `tests/cron/test_cleanup_timeout.py`, `tests/cron/test_terminal_run_lifetime.py`, `tests/tools/test_shared_container_task_id.py`, `tools/terminal_tool.py`

## Fix status

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