NousResearch/hermes-agent

MCP stdio liveness check inversion bug

Cluster 94637. Data as of

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

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An inverted boolean condition in the MCP stdio subprocess liveness check caused all stdio tool calls to unconditionally fast-fail with a 'subprocess has exited' error. These members identify the bug and apply a 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From the close comments: superseded by another PR 1

  • #94661 fix(mcp): un-invert stdio children liveness check — stop unconditional stdio fast-fail (Closes #94637) · superseded by another PR → #94339
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#94637MCP stdio tool calls always fast-fail with 'subprocess has exited' after #85125 3b
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#94339
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1 PR closed without merging
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27 Aug 2026

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