# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Gateway background completion notifications on Discord and Telegram retry behavior

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

The members concern background process or job completion notifications in the gateway, mainly for Discord and Telegram, including reports of delivery problems and repeated retry or requeue behavior. Related items touch on bounding retries and admitting completion wakes whose source differs only by message_id; the titles alone do not establish outcomes.

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 3 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #139026. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #139026 (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-139026`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #138940: \[Bug\]: Background process completion notifications fail delivery to Discord and spin in infinite retry injection loop

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#139026: fix(gateway): Discord/Telegram background completions reach the agent instead of requeueing forever (#138940, salvage #138947 #138967 #138986)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `gateway/platforms/base.py`, `gateway/run_notifications.py`, `gateway/session_automation.py`, `tests/gateway/test_automation_notification_category.py`, `tests/gateway/test_background_process_notifications.py`, `tests/gateway/test_internal_wake_reply_anchor.py`
- **#138947: fix(gateway): bound failed completion notification retries**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `2bc1edbc5e`, `#139026`
- **#138967: fix(gateway): admit completion wakes whose source differs only by message_id**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `2bc1edbc5e`, `#139026`
- **#139032: Background-job completions reach the chat again on Telegram and Discord (#138940, salvage #138967)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `2bc1edbc5e`, `#139026`, `#138940`, `#138967`, `#138986`, `#138947`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #139026 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-15`.
- Subsystem: `gateway`