# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Cron delivery failures surfacing and status reporting

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and PRs concern cron delivery failures being silently hidden behind a last_status of 'ok', and work toward recording and surfacing a distinct 'delivery_failed' status in list, doctor, and manual run outputs.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #100916. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #100916 (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-100916`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #83993: Cron delivery failures are silently swallowed — last_status:ok hides last_delivery_error, user never knows

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#100916: fix(cron): delivery failures record last_status=delivery_failed and surface in list/doctor/manual run (#83993, salvage #100163 #86622)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/cron-detail.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/cron.tsx`, `cron/jobs.py`, `hermes_cli/cli_commands_mixin.py`, `hermes_cli/cron.py`, `tests/cron/test_jobs.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_cron.py`, `tests/tools/test_cronjob_run_delivery_notice.py`, `tests/tools/test_cronjob_run_immediate.py`, `tools/cronjob_tools.py`, `web/src/lib/cron-job.test.ts`, `web/src/lib/cron-job.ts`, `web/src/pages/CronPage.tsx`, `website/docs/developer-guide/cron-internals.md`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/cron.md`
- **#84006: fix(cron): surface delivery failures instead of hiding under last_status ok**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `df4b3733ba`, `#100916`, `#83993`
- **#100163: fix(cron): surface delivery_failed instead of last_status ok**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `df4b3733ba`, `#100916`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #100916 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-02`.
- Subsystem: `cron`