# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Gateway bot mailbox receipt handling: stale pins and repeated scan warnings

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

The members concern Discord/bot-mailbox receipts in the gateway, specifically receipts with an ambiguous status from permission_denied being rejected as an unknown schema on each scan. Two related pull requests propose handling leftover or stale bot receipt pins differently, by clearing them or skipping them quietly; their outcomes are not stated in the titles.

## 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 #139648. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #139648 (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-139648`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #139138: Discord/bot-mailbox receipts with status ambiguous from permission_denied are rejected as unknown receipt schema on every gateway scan

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#139648: fix(gateway): clear stale Bot receipt pins whose admission never committed**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `gateway/session_bot.py`, `gateway/session_bot_mailbox.py`, `tests/gateway/test_bot_receipt_pin_fifo.py`, `tests/gateway/test_bot_receipt_stale_pin.py`
- **#139159: fix(gateway): skip refusal-left bot mailbox pins quietly instead of warning on every scan**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#139471`, `#139138`, `#134889`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #139648 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-16`.