# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Cron jobs waiting out provider quota windows

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a cron scheduler behavior where jobs repeatedly fire and fail during a known provider quota or rate-limit window, rather than holding until the window reopens. The work involves respecting retry-after signals and suppressing repeated failures during closed usage windows.

## 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 #115843. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #115843 (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-115843`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #89376: Cron scheduler ignores provider retry-after and re-fires into a known-closed quota window

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#115843: fix(cron): jobs wait out a provider's closed usage window instead of failing and alerting every tick (#89376, salvage #89395)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `cron/jobs.py`, `cron/quota_hold.py`, `cron/scheduler.py`, `cron/scheduler_preflight.py`, `tests/cron/test_quota_hold.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/cron.md`
- **#89395: fix(cron): hold fires through a provider quota window instead of failing on every tick**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `24f57317da4e`, `#115843`, `#89376`, `#89395`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #115843 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-19`.
- Subsystem: `cron`