# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Fix false connection-failure states in gateway/MCP

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address scenarios where valid post-registration connections are incorrectly classified as initial-connection failures, affecting MCP stdio servers and gateway backends. The fixes prevent legitimate reconnects or parked states from being misread as broken initial setups.

## 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 #95634. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #95634 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #94654: bug(mcp): todoist stdio server registers tools then is parked as failed initial connection in long-lived gateway

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#95634: fix(desktop): per-gateway auth survives, corrupt registry entries quarantine, remote primaries stop spawning ghost backends (wave-2 phase C, #94724)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/electron/connection-registry.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/connection-registry.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/desktop-remote-route.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/desktop-remote-route.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/main.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/oauth-partition.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/oauth-partition.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/remote-lifecycle.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/remote-lifecycle.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/gateway.test.ts`, `tests/tools/test_mcp_parked_self_probe.py`, `tests/tools/test_mcp_reconnect_log_hygiene.py`, `tests/tools/test_mcp_reconnect_retry_reset.py`, `tests/tools/test_mcp_tool.py`, `tools/mcp_tool.py`
- **#94671: fix(tools): stop treating a post-registration reconnect drop as an initial-connect failure**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `9aa7530f7`, `#95634`, `#94724`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #95634 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-26`.