# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Session lease and resource leak fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address leaking or mismanaged active-session leases, including registry pinning at acquire time and cleanup of related resource leaks such as file descriptors, browser daemons, and scope handling. The members share a theme of session and resource lifecycle correctness.

## 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 #86755. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #86755 (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-86755`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #85431: \[Bug\]: Active-session leases leak when released under a multiplexed named-profile scope

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#86755: fix: purge resource-leak cluster — thread output FDs, browser daemons, pet image cache, Relay scope pop, session leases**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/pet/generate/orchestrate.py`, `agent/relay_llm.py`, `agent/relay_runtime.py`, `agent/thread_scoped_output.py`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `hermes_cli/active_sessions.py`, `hermes_cli/observability/relay_shared_metrics.py`, `tests/agent/test_pet_generate.py`, `tests/agent/test_relay_scope_pop_metadata.py`, `tests/agent/test_thread_scoped_output.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_active_sessions.py`, `tests/tools/test_browser_orphan_reaper.py`, `tools/browser_tool.py`
- **#85449: fix(gateway): pin active-session lease to its acquire-time registry (#85431)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `94ce8396e`, `#85431`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #86755 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-15`.
- Subsystem: `gateway`