# NousResearch/hermes-agent · kanban_show task_id handling and routing fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address bugs in kanban_show where task_id was incorrectly advertised as optional and calls made outside a dispatcher-spawned worker were misrouted or rejected. Fixes involve input validation, whitespace stripping, and redirecting bare calls to kanban_list.

## 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 #131810. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #131810 (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-131810`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #91431: \[Bug\]: kanban_show advertises task_id as optional but rejects the call outside a dispatcher-spawned worker

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#131810: fix(kanban): point bare kanban_show/comment calls at kanban_list outside a worker \[risk 0.30\]**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_kanban_tools.py`, `tools/kanban_tools.py`, `tools/kanban_tools_schemas.py`
- **#91466: fix(tools): strip whitespace and require task_id in kanban_show when env task is unset**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#131810`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #131810 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-02`.
- Subsystem: `agent`