# NousResearch/hermes-agent · FIFO overflow orphaned messages lost silently

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These members concern a bug where follow-up messages queued during gateway busy or compression windows are silently dropped with no logging or recovery. The work addresses rescuing or surfacing those orphaned queue entries.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #100972. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #100972 (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-100972`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #99882: \[Bug\]: Queued follow-ups (demoted to queue during context compression) are silently orphaned — messages lost, no log

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#100972: Gateway follow-ups queued during a busy/compression window no longer vanish; overflow survives shutdown (#99882, salvage #99912)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `gateway/run.py`, `gateway/shutdown_flush.py`, `tests/gateway/test_fifo_overflow_rescue.py`, `tests/gateway/test_shutdown_flush.py`
- **#99912: fix(gateway): rescue orphaned FIFO overflow when session goes idle (#99882)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#100972`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #100972 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-02`.