# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Auto-recovery from upstream 429 and transient outages

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address the problem of transient provider errors (especially HTTP 429 capacity responses) immediately terminating agent turns instead of triggering backoff and retry. They cover bug reports, a proposed bounded auto-recovery ladder, and a fix to honor Retry-After headers.

## 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 #116353. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #116353 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #94978: \[Bug\] HTTP 429 'model temporarily at capacity upstream' kills the turn — no auto-resume/backoff

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#116353: Transient provider outages no longer end the turn: bounded auto-recovery ladder after retries and fallback, visible on CLI/TUI/gateway/API/cron (#85426, #107307)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/AGENTS.md`, `agent/agent_init.py`, `agent/turn_api_error.py`, `agent/turn_recovery_autorecover.py`, `agent/turn_retry_state.py`, `cli-config.yaml.example`, `gateway/platforms/api_server.py`, `gateway/platforms/api_server_openai_routes.py`, `hermes_cli/config_defaults.py`, `tests/agent/test_turn_recovery_autorecover.py`, `tests/agent/test_turn_retry_state.py`, `tests/gateway/test_api_server_status_stream.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/configuration.md`
- **#95002: fix(agent): honor Retry-After on upstream-capacity 429 instead of killing the turn**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `0752127c5e`, `#116353`, `#94978`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #116353 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-19`.