# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Sanitize leaked tool-call markup in commentary channel

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #125458: Codex commentary-channel tool-call leak is not sanitized when structured tool_calls are also present (junk tokens reach users)
- PR #125472: fix(agent): sanitize leaked tool-call markup in Codex commentary text
- PR #125482: fix(codex): drop the commentary-channel tool-call echo beside the real call

These items address a bug where tool-call tokens or markup leak through the commentary channel and reach users as junk text. The work involves detecting and stripping that unwanted echo, including cases where structured tool_calls are also present.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 2 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 0 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #125458: Codex commentary-channel tool-call leak is not sanitized when structured tool_calls are also present (junk tokens reach users)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#125472: fix(agent): sanitize leaked tool-call markup in Codex commentary text**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#125458`, `#125458`
  - files: `agent/codex_responses_adapter.py`, `tests/agent/test_codex_responses_adapter.py`
- **#125482: fix(codex): drop the commentary-channel tool-call echo beside the real call**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `c8b7dacb1e`
  - files: `agent/codex_responses_adapter.py`, `tests/agent/test_codex_responses_adapter.py`

## Fix status

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