# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Kanban dispatch gating for human-owner lanes

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #98560: Kanban: no per-assignee dispatch exemption for 'ready' — only kanban.review_dispatch gates 'review', so a no-model profile still gets spawned and crashes
- PR #98582: feat(kanban): add non_dispatchable_assignees gate for human-owner lanes

These items concern adding and refining configuration gates that control automatic dispatch or spawning behavior in kanban lanes assigned to human owners. The work spans a feature for per-assignee dispatch exemption and a fix addressing missing dispatch gating on 'ready' lanes.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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.

## Open related issues

- #98560: Kanban: no per-assignee dispatch exemption for 'ready' — only kanban.review_dispatch gates 'review', so a no-model profile still gets spawned and crashes

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#98582: feat(kanban): add non_dispatchable_assignees gate for human-owner lanes**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `hermes_cli/config_defaults.py`, `hermes_cli/kanban_db.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_review_lifecycle.py`
- **#98592: fix(kanban): add kanban.ready_dispatch config gate to prevent auto-spawn on human-only lanes**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#98560`, `#98582`
- **#98602: feat(kanban): per-assignee dispatch exemption for human-owner lanes**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#98582`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `cron`