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Surfacing subagent and delegation failure notices

NousResearch/hermes-agent · cluster 97654

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #99049. Check it covers your case.

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A fix was merged to main in PR #99049. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
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The maintainers' tracker marks this resolved, deciding PR #99067. That is separate from the fix event.
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These issues and pull requests address cases where subagent failures, provider errors, and model-not-found rejections were silent or misreported, with fixes aimed at surfacing accurate error notices to the CLI, gateway, and config-level reports.

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  • #99049 fix: failed subagents no longer die silently — clean error notice on CLI and gateway

    merged to main

    files: gateway/run.py, tests/gateway/test_subagent_failure_notice.py, tests/tools/test_delegate.py, tools/delegate_tool.py, website/docs/guides/delegation-patterns.md, website/docs/user-guide/features/delegation.md

  • #99067 fix: subagent provider failures report exit_reason=error, not a false TRUNCATED banner (#97654, #97655, salvage #98129)

    merged to main

    files: tests/tools/test_delegate.py, tests/tools/test_process_registry.py, tools/delegate_tool.py, tools/process_registry.py

  • #99098 fix: subagent failures carry a classified failure_reason; rejection notice reuses the classifier's pattern list (salvage #87523, #97667)

    merged to main

    files: contributors/emails/[redacted:email], tests/tools/test_async_delegation.py, tests/tools/test_delegate.py, tools/delegate_tool.py, tools/process_registry.py

2 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: merged via another change 2

  • #97667 fix(tools): surface config-level model_not_found notices in delegation batch reports · merged via another change → b215e8d, #97654, #99067, #99098
  • #98129 fix(delegation): honest subagent failure statuses + config-level model-rejection notice · merged via another change → cd2bd16, #99067, #99049
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#97654[Bug]: Delegation model rejections (model_not_found) are invisible to the user — no config-level notice
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#99049, #99067, #99098
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2 PRs closed without merging
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31 Aug 2026

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