# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Delegation batching, persistence, and result grouping

## Open now

- 1 issue, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #85646: Delegation durability: persist and settle completed batch children independently

These items concern how delegated child tasks are persisted, how their completion state is tracked independently, and how results are returned either as they finish or grouped per task. The work spans durability of batch children and refactoring of child-scoped delivery state.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 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 #104299. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #104299 (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: `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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #85646: Delegation durability: persist and settle completed batch children independently

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#104299: delegate_task: ungrouped subagents return as they finish; per-task \`group\` joins results**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_async_delegation.py`, `tools/AGENTS.md`, `tools/async_delegation.py`, `tools/delegate_tool.py`, `tools/delegate_tool_dispatch.py`, `tools/process_registry_notifications.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/delegation.md`
- **#76228: refactor(delegation): persist child-scoped delivery state**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `028fe2c4c8`, `#104299`, `#76228`, `#76229`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #104299 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-06`.
- Subsystem: `agent`