# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Stale gateway state entries causing phantom UI states

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #99760: \[Bug\]: Dashboard shows phantom 'retrying' state for a channel that was never configured (stale gateway_state.json platform entry survives restarts)
- PR #99837: fix(gateway): prune stale platform entries from gateway_state.json on startup

A bug where unconfigured channels show a false 'retrying' state due to stale platform entries persisting in gateway_state.json across restarts. Two fix attempts address pruning those stale entries on startup.

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #99760: \[Bug\]: Dashboard shows phantom 'retrying' state for a channel that was never configured (stale gateway_state.json platform entry survives restarts)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#99768: fix(gateway): prune stale platform entries from gateway_state.json on startup**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#99760`, `#62989`, `#5245`
- **#99837: fix(gateway): prune stale platform entries from gateway_state.json on startup**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#99768`
  - files: `agent/auxiliary_client.py`, `cron/jobs.py`, `gateway/run.py`, `gateway/status.py`

## Fix status

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