# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Bot privacy flags for agent mesh membership

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #111737: \[Feature\]: bot-mode mesh membership — a per-agent \`private\` flag and an install-wide \`bots.force_private\`, so an agent can be kept out of every other agent's roster and DM reach
- PR #104876: feat(bot-mode): per-agent \`private\` flag and install-wide \`bots.force_private\`

These items propose a per-agent \`private\` flag and an install-wide \`bots.force_private\` setting to control whether a bot agent appears in other agents' rosters and is reachable via direct messages. All three members describe the same feature request or its implementation.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #111737: \[Feature\]: bot-mode mesh membership — a per-agent \`private\` flag and an install-wide \`bots.force_private\`, so an agent can be kept out of every other agent's roster and DM reach

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#104876: feat(bot-mode): per-agent \`private\` flag and install-wide \`bots.force_private\`**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `42d1c8f65b`, `#104966`
  - files: `cli-config.yaml.example`, `hermes_cli/config_defaults.py`, `hermes_cli/web_server_config.py`, `tests/tools/test_bot_mode_dm.py`, `tests/tools/test_bot_mode_probe.py`, `tests/tools/test_bot_relay.py`, `tools/bot_mode_dm.py`, `tools/bot_mode_probe.py`, `tools/bot_relay.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/bot-mode.md`, `website/i18n/zh-Hans/docusaurus-plugin-content-docs/current/user-guide/bot-mode.md`
- **#112090: feat(bots): mesh membership — per-agent private flag and install-wide force_private**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#104876`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `agent`