# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Fleet check errors for non-gateway runtime updates

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and fixes address a bug where updating dashboard-only or unmapped runtimes incorrectly triggers gateway fleet verification, causing successful updates to exit with an error. The fix scopes fleet-probe checks to gateway-kind plan records only.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #103478. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #103478 (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-103478`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #97332: \[Bug\]: dashboard-only runtime makes successful \`hermes update\` exit 1 on empty gateway fleet check

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#103478: fix(update): fleet check no longer fails with "no rows" after stopping unmapped/dashboard-only runtimes; receipts survive the module purge (#97332, #98436, salvage #97350 #92934)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `hermes_cli/update_cmd_fleet.py`, `hermes_cli/update_cmd_maint.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_fleet_check_fail_closed.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_fleet_probe_resume_token.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_stale_module_purge.py`
- **#97350: fix(update): scope fleet-probe runtime expectation to gateway-kind plan records**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `f58fcc8118`, `#103478`, `#97332`
- **#97450: fix(update): only require fleet verification for gateway runtimes**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `f58fcc8118`, `#103478`, `#97350`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #103478 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-05`.