# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Gateway delivery obligation retry behavior corrections

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address how delivery obligations experiencing errors in the gateway are retried, covering in-process retry logic and backoff handling for rejected final replies. The changes appear focused on ensuring obligations encountering failures are not left unretried during a process's lifetime.

## 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 #115350. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #115350 (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-115350`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #91653: fix(gateway): failed delivery obligations are never retried while the owning process is alive

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#115350: Rejected final replies are retried with a backoff, not stranded until restart (#91653, salvage #91655)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `gateway/delivery_ledger.py`, `gateway/platforms/base.py`, `gateway/run_startup.py`, `tests/gateway/test_delivery_ledger.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/messaging/index.md`
- **#91655: fix(gateway): retry failed delivery obligations in-process**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#115350`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #115350 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-18`.
- Subsystem: `gateway`