# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Cron failure alert backoff and recovery notification

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address reducing repeated alert noise for recurring cron failures by implementing backoff behavior, and notifying once when a failure recovers. A related item introduces durable incident tracking and acknowledgment to suppress re-pinging for already-acknowledged failures.

## 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 #95017. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #95017 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #88055: Back off repeated cron-failure deliveries and notify once on recovery

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#95017: feat(cron): acked failure signatures stop re-pinging — durable incidents + ack CLI (salvage #94692)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/monitoring/cron_health.py`, `cron/incidents.py`, `cron/scheduler.py`, `hermes_cli/cron.py`, `hermes_cli/subcommands/cron.py`, `tests/cron/test_cron_incidents.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/cron.md`
- **#88493: feat(cron): back off repeated failure alerts**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `9de5460c12eb`, `#95017`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #95017 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-25`.
- Subsystem: `cron`