# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Codex idle watchdog kills long-reasoning streams early

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A bug where the Codex event-stale watchdog timer fires before extended reasoning models produce their first content token, causing premature stream termination. The related items address deferring or adjusting the watchdog until actual progress is observed.

## 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 #104520. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #104520 (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-104520`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #90449: Bug: Codex event-stale watchdog (60s) kills GPT-5.6 reasoning streams before first content token — scaled TTFB fix (#64594) insufficient for extended pre-thinking

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#104520: fix(agent): official Codex requests that reason before their first token are no longer killed by the idle watchdog (#90449, salvage #103710)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/auxiliary_client.py`, `agent/chat_completion_helpers.py`, `agent/codex_runtime.py`, `contributors/emails/221849497+PeaceMaker-best@users.noreply.github.com`, `tests/agent/test_aux_progress_streaming.py`, `tests/agent/test_codex_ttfb_watchdog.py`
- **#103710: fix(agent): defer official Codex idle watchdog until progress**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `3ac671dbba`, `#104520`, `#90449`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #104520 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-06`.
- Subsystem: `agent`