# NousResearch/hermes-agent · A2A streamed reply text lost in gateway responses

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and fixes address a bug where streamed A2A replies are lost, causing message/send, message/stream, and tasks/get to return a completed task with an empty reply instead of the actual response text.

## 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 #117612. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #117612 (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-117612`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #116944: A2A: reply text lost when gateway streams the session — message/send and message/stream return TASK_STATE_COMPLETED with empty reply

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#117612: fix(a2a): streamed replies reach message/send, message/stream and tasks/get instead of an empty completed task (#116944, salvage #117018)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `plugins/platforms/a2a/adapter.py`, `tests/plugins/test_a2a_plugin.py`
- **#117018: fix(a2a): recover the streamed reply text instead of resolving empty**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `7efacc8f6204`, `#117612`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #117612 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-21`.