# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Silent scheduled heartbeat support in gateway

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #112254: \[Feature\]: Allow intentional silence for trusted scheduled heartbeats while preserving human-turn reply safeguards
- PR #112327: fix(gateway): honor final silence for trusted heartbeats

These items address allowing trusted scheduled heartbeats to be intentionally silent, without triggering reply safeguards intended for human-turn interactions. The work spans a feature request and related gateway fixes.

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #112254: \[Feature\]: Allow intentional silence for trusted scheduled heartbeats while preserving human-turn reply safeguards

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#112279: fix(gateway): allow silent scheduled heartbeats**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `680735174a097eb036d0c69546650fa0e6af10a3`, `#112279`
- **#112327: fix(gateway): honor final silence for trusted heartbeats**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#112279`, `#112254`
  - files: `gateway/response_filters.py`, `gateway/run_turn.py`, `gateway/turn_context.py`, `tests/gateway/test_gateway_silence_tokens.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/messaging/index.md`

## Fix status

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