# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Fleet update reliability and deployment coordination

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items relate to improving the reliability and consistency of fleet update mechanisms, including deployment planning across install types, stdout/sentinel handling for desktop handshakes, and UX work for canary rollouts.

## 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 #96311. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #96311 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #91277: \[Tracking\] Fleet update reliability: one deployment plan for local, multi-profile, remote, and image-managed installs

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#96311: fix(serve): write machine sentinels to real fd 1 so the desktop handshake survives the stdout redirect (#96282)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `hermes_cli/web_server.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_serve_port_in_use.py`
- **#93042: feat(update): complete Phase 4 fleet UX and canary rollouts (#91277)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `48c11b0511c2bb18788b01a2c94d345b6daffe86`, `#96282`, `#96311`, `#96280`, `#96315`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #96311 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-27`.
- Subsystem: `hermes_cli`