hermes - 💡(How to fix) Fix kanban: parent-child deadlock blocks parallel War Room orchestration

Affected downstream project: Naroh091/hermes-war-room — the UI orchestration layer built on Hermes Agent kanban delegation. Every War Room mission that spawns child review tasks via parent-child links hits this deadlock.

Summary

Two bugs in hermes_cli/kanban_db.py break the War Room orchestration workflow where an orchestrator parent task coordinates child review tasks in parallel.

Bug 1: recompute_ready blocks children on running parents

File: hermes_cli/kanban_db.py line 1169
Current:

if all(p["status"] == "done" for p in parents):

Expected:

if all(p["status"] in ("done", "running") for p in parents):

The kanban dispatcher only promotes todo → ready when ALL parents are done. But in War Room orchestration, the parent orchestrator task stays running while coordinating children. Children get permanently stuck in todo.

Bug 2: link_tasks demotes children linked to running parents

File: hermes_cli/kanban_db.py line 861
Current:

if parent_status != "done":

Expected:

if parent_status not in ("done", "running"):

When a child task is linked to a parent via link_tasks(), if the parent is not done, the child gets demoted from ready → todo. Same issue as above — a running orchestrator parent causes demotion.

Impact

Every War Room mission that uses parent-child task links hits this deadlock. The orchestrator creates child review tasks that can never be dispatched because the parent never reaches done while coordinating.

Reproduction

1. Create a parent task (orchestrator) assigned to profile default
2. Create child tasks linked to the parent, assigned to worker profiles
3. Parent goes running, children stay todo
4. Kanban dispatcher never promotes children → entire mission deadlocks