# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Gateway shutdown hangs and drain escalation fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address scenarios where a stalled or wedged gateway causes update and shutdown operations to hang, introducing liveness probing, bounded escalation, and force-kill behavior to prevent indefinite waits.

## 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 #86860. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #86860 (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-86860`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #81642: \[Bug\]: Stalled event loop makes \`hermes update\` hang — updater waits 180s for a gateway that cannot shut down

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#86860: fix(update): probe gateway loop liveness before drain; bounded escalation for wedged gateways**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `hermes_cli/gateway.py`, `hermes_cli/update_cmd.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_wedged_gateway.py`
- **#81652: fix(gateway): force-kill the gateway at the end of the launchd drain budget**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#81642`, `#86860`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #86860 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-15`.
- Subsystem: `hermes_cli`