# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Silence marker spelling variants and delivery suppression in gateway

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #132388: Bracketed silence marker with internal whitespace ("\[ SILENT \]") bypasses delivery suppression
- PR #132403: fix(gateway): recognize silence markers with whitespace inside the brackets
- PR #136852: fix(gateway): every rendered spelling of the silence token silences

The three members all concern the gateway's handling of silence markers, specifically bracketed forms with internal whitespace such as "\[ SILENT \]". One appears to be an issue report about suppression being bypassed, and two are fix-oriented titles about recognizing varied spellings. Titles alone do not show whether any change was merged or works.

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #132388: Bracketed silence marker with internal whitespace ("\[ SILENT \]") bypasses delivery suppression

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#132403: fix(gateway): recognize silence markers with whitespace inside the brackets**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `d384944313`, `#109599`, `#109599`, `#109599`
  - files: `gateway/response_filters.py`, `tests/gateway/test_response_filters.py`
- **#136852: fix(gateway): every rendered spelling of the silence token silences**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
  - files: `gateway/response_filters.py`, `tests/gateway/test_response_filters.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/messaging/index.md`

## Fix status

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