# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Gateway heartbeat missed-tick coalescing fix

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These members address a bug where missed heartbeat ticks in the gateway fire as multiple separate turns instead of being coalesced into one on wake. The work involves fixing idle session wake behavior and merging redundant tick backlog into a single event.

## 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 #104827. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #104827 (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-104827`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #85119: \[Bug\]: Telegram-gateway heartbeat doesn't coalesce missed ticks — fires backlog of N separate turns instead of 1 on wake

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#104827: fix(gateway): heartbeats wake idle sessions without backlog (#85119, salvage #85133)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `evals/heartbeat_idle_wire.py`, `gateway/platforms/base.py`, `gateway/run_goals.py`, `gateway/run_turn.py`, `tests/gateway/test_heartbeat_poller.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/heartbeat.md`
- **#85133: fix(gateway): coalesce missed heartbeat ticks**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `3be1b87af10fb51942570384a298e82c2e6f9be7`, `#104827`, `#85119`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #104827 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-07`.
- Subsystem: `gateway`