# NousResearch/hermes-agent · lifecycle guard false-positives and bypass fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and pull requests concern the cron lifecycle guard incorrectly blocking legitimate inputs (such as bash arithmetic division, prose, and quoted data) and failing to intercept certain scripts that bypass it via dot-sourcing or NUL-padding. Work spans bug reports, fixes, and regression tests for these edge cases.

## 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 #93411. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #93411 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #87280: cron lifecycle guard (#30719) false-positives on bash arithmetic division $(( x / y ))

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#93286: fix: lifecycle guard no longer blocks prose or quoted data as gateway commands (#92372, salvage #92443)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `cron/lifecycle_guard.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_gateway_restart_loop.py`
- **#93411: fix: dot-sourced and NUL-padded scripts no longer bypass the gateway lifecycle guard (#77925 #77927, salvage #77926 #77928)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `cron/lifecycle_guard.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_gateway_restart_loop.py`
- **#87417: test(cron): regression test for bash arithmetic division in lifecycle guard (#87280)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#87280`, `#93286`, `#93411`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #93411 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-24`.
- Subsystem: `cron/scripts`