# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Cron tick false failure reports during gateway restart

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #99120: fix(cron): avoid misleading failure delivery for queued ticks during gateway restart
- PR #99154: fix(cron): stop gateway restarts from falsely failing queued ticks

These items address a bug where cron ticks queued during a gateway restart are incorrectly reported as \`failed\`. The fixes aim to suppress or prevent misleading failure delivery in that scenario.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 1 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.67`: 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

- #99120: fix(cron): avoid misleading failure delivery for queued ticks during gateway restart

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#99154: fix(cron): stop gateway restarts from falsely failing queued ticks**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `cron/scheduler.py`, `gateway/run.py`, `tests/cron/test_shutdown_queued_dispatch.py`, `tests/gateway/test_cron_interrupt_notification.py`
- **#99184: fix(cron): suppress misleading failure delivery for queued ticks during restart**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `wontfix_bydesign`; implication `wontfix`; refs `#99184`

## Fix status

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