NousResearch/hermes-agent

Inverted stdio MCP liveness check bug and fix

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #94339 on 27 Aug 2026. Check it covers your case.

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A bug where the _stdio_children_dead() function had an inverted liveness check, causing every stdio MCP call to fail-fast in oneshot sessions. The members cover the bug report and a corresponding fix.

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  • #94339 fix(mcp): un-invert the stdio children liveness check

    merged to main

    files: tests/tools/test_mcp_stdio_children_dead.py, tools/mcp_tool.py

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: duplicate 1

  • #95144 fix(mcp): correct inverted liveness check in _stdio_children_dead (#94335) · duplicate → #94339
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#94335[Bug] _stdio_children_dead() inverted liveness check fail-fasts every stdio MCP call in oneshot (-z) sessions
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27 Aug 2026

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