# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Approval withdrawal misread as user denial fix

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a bug where a subagent or gateway approval being withdrawn or cancelled during teardown was incorrectly reported as an explicit user denial. The work distinguishes between a user actively denying a prompt versus an approval being rescinded for other reasons.

## 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 #112308. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #112308 (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-112308`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #112026: delegate_task completion cancels the subagent's pending approval and reports it as an explicit user deny

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#112308: fix(approval): withdrawn gateway approval prompts no longer read as a user deny (#112026, #22992, salvage #25305, #112032)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `tests/gateway/test_session_boundary_security_state.py`, `tests/tools/test_approval_cancelled_attribution.py`, `tests/tools/test_approval_interrupt.py`, `tools/approval.py`, `tools/approval_gateway_wait.py`, `tools/approval_prompt.py`, `tools/delegate_tool_child_run.py`, `tools/file_tools_write_guards.py`, `website/docs/developer-guide/observer-hooks.md`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/hooks.md`
- **#112032: fix(approval): distinguish teardown from user denial**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `1e2cb57973`, `#112308`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #112308 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-16`.