# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Cross-turn stale circuit breaker half-open recovery

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #89587: Cross-turn stale-call circuit breaker (#58962) has no half-open state — an unattended single-provider session latches permanently failed even after the provider recovers
- PR #89612: fix(agent): recover unattended sessions after stale providers return
- PR #89804: fix(agent): allow half-open probes through the cross-turn stale give-up breaker

These items concern a circuit breaker for stale cross-turn calls that lacks a half-open state, causing unattended single-provider sessions to latch permanently into a give-up condition. The work addresses allowing probes through and restoring sessions when a provider becomes available again.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 2 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 0 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Open related issues

- #89587: Cross-turn stale-call circuit breaker (#58962) has no half-open state — an unattended single-provider session latches permanently failed even after the provider recovers

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#89612: fix(agent): recover unattended sessions after stale providers return**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `agent/chat_completion_helpers.py`, `tests/run_agent/test_stream_stale_circuit_breaker.py`
- **#89804: fix(agent): allow half-open probes through the cross-turn stale give-up breaker**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `volume_quota`; implication `active`; refs `48ac94872a`, `9863980c61`, `#121453`, `#89612`
  - files: `agent/chat_completion_helpers.py`, `agent/chat_completion_nonstream.py`, `agent/chat_completion_stale_breaker.py`, `tests/agent/test_stream_stale_circuit_breaker.py`, `tests/agent/test_streaming_bedrock_stale_probe.py`, `website/docs/reference/environment-variables.md`, `website/docs/user-guide/configuration.md`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `agent`