# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Telegram bot silently stops receiving inbound messages

## Open now

- 1 issue, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #102260: Telegram gateway: silent polling death — bot reports connected but never delivers inbound messages

These issues and fixes concern a scenario where the Telegram bot reports itself as connected but stops delivering incoming messages without any error or warning. The work focuses on detecting and surfacing this 'healthy-but-deaf' state rather than letting it go silently unnoticed.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 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 #109318. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #109318 (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: `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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #102260: Telegram gateway: silent polling death — bot reports connected but never delivers inbound messages

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#109318: fix(telegram): a wedged PTB dispatcher is reported instead of staying silently deaf (refs #102260, salvage #102383)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `gateway/platforms/base.py`, `plugins/platforms/telegram/adapter.py`, `tests/gateway/test_telegram_ingress_delivery_gap.py`
- **#102383: fix(telegram): report a healthy-but-deaf ingress instead of nothing (#102260)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `db407dd078`, `78b98032c5`, `dbd027287e`, `#109318`, `#102260`, `#102378`, `#71240`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #109318 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-13`.
- Subsystem: `gateway`