# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Gateway background-process watch/heartbeat notification admission and delivery fixes

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #139377: Background-process watch/heartbeat notifications denied admission to desktop (GUI) sessions — "Watch notification not admitted ... permission_denied"
- PR #139460: fix(gateway): admit local watch notifications from restored routes

Members mostly concern gateway handling of background-process watch and heartbeat notifications, including one report of a "permission_denied" admission failure in desktop (GUI) sessions and several pull requests touching admission from restored routes and heartbeat delivery. One PR also bundles loosely related items (Telegram reply_to wake anchors, /retry ordering), so the overlap is partial.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #140185. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #140185 (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: `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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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.

## Open related issues

- #139377: Background-process watch/heartbeat notifications denied admission to desktop (GUI) sessions — "Watch notification not admitted ... permission_denied"

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#140185: fix(gateway): wake anchors never reach Telegram reply_to, heartbeats into GUI sessions, /retry admits before rewriting (package 7, MSG-17, RT-28, MSG-11)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `gateway/response_filters.py`, `gateway/run_busy.py`, `gateway/run_notifications.py`, `gateway/session_authority.py`, `gateway/session_automation.py`, `gateway/session_ingress.py`, `gateway/session_retry_admission.py`, `gateway/slash_commands_session.py`, `hermes_state_messages.py`, `hermes_state_rewind.py`, `plugins/platforms/telegram/adapter.py`, `plugins/platforms/telegram/telegram_ids.py`, `tests/gateway/test_busy_reply_internal_anchor.py`, `tests/gateway/test_local_producer_admission.py`, `tests/gateway/test_retry_authority_refusal.py`, `tests/gateway/test_retry_replacement.py`, `tests/gateway/test_telegram_reply_mode.py`, `tests/tools/test_process_heartbeat.py`, `tools/process_registry.py` (+1 more)
- **#139460: fix(gateway): admit local watch notifications from restored routes**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#139610`, `#140185`
  - files: `gateway/session_automation.py`, `tests/gateway/test_local_automation.py`
- **#139877: fix(gateway): deliver background-process heartbeats again, in every chat**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#140185`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #140185 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-17`.
- Subsystem: `gateway`