# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Cron reporting accuracy and scheduler lifecycle improvements

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These members address incorrect status reports for cron runs and consolidate several scheduler lifecycle issues including guard leaks, alerts, DNS fallback, and cleanup bounds. The work spans CLI background dispatch verdict accuracy and broader scheduler robustness.

## 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 #86682. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #86682 (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-86682`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #83340: hermes cron run reports 'failed' without executing the job (desktop-app shell)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#86682: fix(cron): consolidate scheduler-lifecycle salvage — guard-leak tick continuation, failure alerts, DNS fallback, bounded cleanup, CLI background verdict**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `cron/scheduler.py`, `hermes_cli/cron.py`, `tests/cron/test_cleanup_timeout.py`, `tests/cron/test_parallel_pool.py`, `tests/cron/test_recurring_wedge_selfheal.py`, `tests/cron/test_run_one_job.py`, `tests/cron/test_scheduler.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_cron.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/cron.md`
- **#83365: fix(cli): report background-dispatch cron runs without false 'failed'**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#86682`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #86682 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-15`.
- Subsystem: `cron`