# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Kanban retry notification wording and conditional retry promises

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #84059: Kanban timeout/crash notifications promise "will retry" before the breaker decides — "will retry" can be followed by "gave up" on a task that will not retry
- PR #84087: fix(kanban): make retry notifications conditional

The members concern Kanban timeout/crash notifications that say "will retry" before the circuit breaker has decided, which can be followed by a "gave up" message. Two pull requests propose making the retry notifications conditional or removing unsupported retry promises; the titles alone do not show whether either was merged or resolves the issue.

## 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #84059: Kanban timeout/crash notifications promise "will retry" before the breaker decides — "will retry" can be followed by "gave up" on a task that will not retry

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#84087: fix(kanban): make retry notifications conditional**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#142310`, `#84087`
  - files: `gateway/kanban_watchers.py`, `hermes_cli/kanban_db.py`, `tests/gateway/test_kanban_notifier.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_core_functionality.py`, `tests/tui_gateway/test_kanban_notify_poller.py`, `tui_gateway/server.py`
- **#142310: fix(kanban): remove unsupported retry promises**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`

## Fix status

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