# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Orphan reaper incorrectly kills supervised gateways

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A bug where the orphan-reaping logic terminates legitimately supervised gateway processes (including Windows Scheduled-Task-managed ones) on GUI relaunch, along with fixes to exempt supervised and recorded gateways from the reaper across platforms.

## 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 #86658. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #86658 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #86098: Desktop backend orphan-reap kills Windows Scheduled-Task gateway on every GUI relaunch

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#86658: fix(gateway): spare supervised and recorded gateways from the orphan reaper on all platforms**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `hermes_cli/gateway.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_gateway.py`
- **#86100: fix(gateway): spare Scheduled-Task-supervised gateway from orphan reaper on Windows**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#86658`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #86658 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-15`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`