# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Gateway steer origin metadata preservation fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a bug where busy-steer operations lose or fail to carry origin/source context metadata, causing CLI-origin sessions to misidentify reply targets. The fixes aim to preserve that metadata through steer injections.

## 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 #104999. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #104999 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #104003: fix(gateway): /steer injections carry no origin metadata — CLI-origin sessions guess (and miss) the reply target

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#104999: fix(gateway): busy steers retain source context and privacy (#104003, salvage #104047)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `gateway/run_busy.py`, `gateway/run_inbound.py`, `gateway/session.py`, `tests/gateway/test_busy_session_ack.py`, `tests/gateway/test_busy_steer_origin.py`, `tests/gateway/test_multiplex_busy_input_mode.py`, `tests/gateway/test_steer_command.py`, `tests/gateway/test_subagent_protection_30170.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/messaging/index.md`
- **#104047: fix(gateway): preserve origin metadata for busy steers**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `d9833c5615`, `#104999`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #104999 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-07`.