# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Heartbeat silence marker handling and warning spam

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern a bug where silence markers on heartbeat-injected turns are incorrectly rejected by the human-silence guard, causing repeated warning spam, and related fixes to ensure scheduled heartbeats can end silently without emitting spurious progress signals.

## 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 #113191. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #113191 (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-113191`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #113031: \[Bug\] NO_REPLY silence marker on heartbeat turns rejected by the human-silence guard (warning spam every interval)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#113191: fix(gateway): scheduled heartbeats can end silently and emit no progress bubbles (#113031, #112149, salvage #112160, #112279, #113050, #112327)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `gateway/platforms/base.py`, `gateway/response_filters.py`, `gateway/run_goals.py`, `gateway/run_turn.py`, `gateway/run_turn_runner.py`, `gateway/turn_context.py`, `tests/gateway/test_gateway_silence_tokens.py`, `tests/gateway/test_heartbeat_poller.py`, `tests/gateway/test_run_progress_topics.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/goals.md`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/heartbeat.md`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/loops.md`
- **#113050: fix(gateway): let heartbeat-injected turns keep their silence markers**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `680735174a`, `98f758ae7e`, `#113191`, `#113031`, `#112279`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #113191 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-17`.