# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Gateway connectivity reliability and silent failure fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

Multiple issues and fixes address gateways (Slack, Discord) appearing healthy or running while actually disconnected, with related work on reconnection, startup failure handling, and surfacing errors that were previously silent.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 2 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 1 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_PARTIAL`): some members are connected by structural evidence (shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference); the rest are joined by an automated relevance judgement over their text.
- Members outside that structural core may belong to a different underlying problem.
- Pairwise link density `0.45`: 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

- #14326: \[Bug\]: Slack gateway can remain 'running' while Socket Mode is dead, requiring manual restart
- #25476: \[Bug\]: Slack adapter Socket Mode silently drops without auto-reconnect; no log at default WARNING level

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#14377: fix(slack): surface Socket Mode task failures**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `7f8b0dd1e06fb21a0d5b69dd6611c8df1c588b9d`, `#28873`

## Fix status

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