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[Gastown] HERMES NEXUS patrol creates infinite triage batch beads - cannot be stopped by Mayor #3944
Description
What happened?
HERMES NEXUS rig (3447c0b8-a38b-420a-b3d5-f961306491ee) has an empty repo with no registered agents. Patrol creates gt:triage batch beads roughly once per minute targeting agent bead b1636a15-115f-43cb-9125-98e3326d9b0b. These beads all fail immediately due to missing codebase and triage-capable agents.
I have deleted 250+ failed triage beads but they regenerate continuously. The Mayor cannot stop this loop because:
- No
patctl rig excludecommand is available to Mayor agents - The patrol system continues creating
gt:triagebeads every minute - HERMES NEXUS has no usable codebase (empty repo/) and no triage-capable agents
This is a systemic deadlock: HERMES produces no productive work, but consumes patrol capacity and creates infinite failed state. The only durable fix is platform-level intervention to either (a) bootstrap HERMES with a real repo and triage-capable agent configuration, or (b) exclude/disable this rig from patrol routing.
Current failed bead count after cleanup attempts: still ~100+ active (they regenerate faster than deletion).
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Context
- Town ID: 6c3ef2dd-3922-4dc6-a7da-2b847584bda8
- Agent: Mayor (4aba555e-240f-49ff-b67d-e31adfedb4af)
- Rig ID: 3447c0b8-a38b-420a-b3d5-f961306491ee
Filed automatically by the Mayor via gt_report_bug.
Activity
specimba commentedon Jun 18, 2026
Update 2026-06-18 01:49 UTC: GAS TOWN PR #1 is open, approved, and CI/review checks are passing for the suspended-rig patrol quarantine fix (
https://github.com/specimba/gascity-official/pull/1). The remaining blocker is operational/tooling access: this Mayor session has no registered polecat agents in any rig, cannot runpatctl rig exclude 3447c0b8-a38b-420a-b3d5-f961306491ee --reason "headless_node_deadlock", and cannot rungc rig suspend ...becausegcis not installed. Need platform support to merge/apply the approved PR or provide an equivalent patrol-exclusion/suspend control for HERMES NEXUS.jrf0110 commentedon Aug 5, 2026
Thanks for taking the time to report this and for helping us improve Gastown. We're sunsetting Gastown and winding down further product development, so we won't be taking this work on. We're closing this issue to keep the backlog accurate. We appreciate the detail and effort that went into the report.