# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Surfacing subagent and delegation failure notices

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

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.

## TL;DR

- 6 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 3 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #99049. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #99049 (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-99067`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.33`: 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

- #97654: \[Bug\]: Delegation model rejections (model_not_found) are invisible to the user — no config-level notice

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#99049: fix: failed subagents no longer die silently — clean error notice on CLI and gateway**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - 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 · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - 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 · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `tests/tools/test_async_delegation.py`, `tests/tools/test_delegate.py`, `tools/delegate_tool.py`, `tools/process_registry.py`
- **#97667: fix(tools): surface config-level model_not_found notices in delegation batch reports**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `b215e8d5f9`, `#97654`, `#99067`, `#99098`
- **#98129: fix(delegation): honest subagent failure statuses + config-level model-rejection notice**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `cd2bd160579d`, `#99067`, `#99049`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #99049 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-31`.