# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Gateway agent silent message drop after session reap

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and PRs concern a bug where a gateway agent stops responding and silently drops messages after a 'session reaped' event. The work involves a fix to recover the agent in that scenario.

## 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 #99531. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #99531 (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-99531`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #99106: \[BUG\] Gateway: agent stops responding after \`session reaped\` — production-scale evidence

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#99531: fix(gateway): recover agent after session reaped so messages are not silently dropped (salvage #99183)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `gateway/run.py`, `tests/gateway/test_reaped_session_recovery.py`
- **#99183: fix(gateway): recover agent after session reaped so messages are not silently dropped**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#99531`
- **#103158: fix(gateway): recover agent after session reaped so messages are not silently dropped (#99106)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#99106`, `#99531`, `#99183`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #99531 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-31`.
- Subsystem: `gateway`