# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Human silence marker replies disappearing in gateway

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and PRs concern a bug where a human-initiated gateway turn answered with a bare silence marker causes the reply to vanish entirely rather than remain visible. The work addresses keeping such replies visible instead of losing them.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #111624. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #111624 (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-111624`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #110952: \[Bug\]: a bare silence marker on a human-initiated gateway turn loses the reply entirely

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#111624: fix(gateway): a human message answered with a bare silence marker gets a visible reply instead of vanishing (#110952, salvage #110966)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `gateway/response_filters.py`, `gateway/run_turn.py`, `gateway/stream_consumer_fallback.py`, `tests/gateway/test_gateway_silence_tokens.py`
- **#110957: fix(gateway): recover human silence marker replies**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `54d3217578`, `#110952`, `#111624`
- **#110966: fix(gateway): keep human silence-marker turns visible**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `54d3217578`, `#111624`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #111624 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-15`.