# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Worker finalization on iteration budget exhaustion

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address how workers are finalized or terminated when their iteration budget runs out. The group covers the problem identification, a fix, and a related utility or script around the same behavior.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 2 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #87142. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #87142 (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-87142`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #87096: Bound worker finalization when iteration budget is exhausted

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#87142: fix(agent): bound worker finalization when iteration budget exhausted**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/turn_finalizer.py`, `tests/agent/test_turn_finalizer_iteration_limit_exit.py`
- **#87222: terminalize-exhausted-workers**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
- **#112318: fix(kanban): retry a failed worker turn in place; honest exit when recovery exhausts**. merged to main
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/kanban_turn_recovery.py`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `hermes_cli/cli_single_query.py`, `tests/agent/test_kanban_turn_recovery.py`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #87142 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-16`.
- Subsystem: `agent`