# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Telegram bot ignores messages mentioning other bots

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and fixes address a behavior where Telegram bots respond to messages that explicitly @mention a different bot. The work focuses on filtering out such messages in group chat contexts.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 2 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #20373: Telegram: bots respond to messages @mentioning a different bot when require_mention is false

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#20361: fix(telegram): reject messages that @mention a different bot in group chats**. closed without merge · fix tier `suggested`
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `ce4d8570215a7e601e13de5936853b64c355ef5d`, `fbfe2948827b8bdd6e0c0f1aa71eb897938f9635`
  - _suggested-tier fix detail withheld; re-request with `?tier=all` to include it._
- **#20464: fix(gateway/telegram): skip messages that explicitly @mention another agent**. closed without merge · fix tier `suggested`
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `ce4d8570215a7e601e13de5936853b64c355ef5d`, `fbfe2948827b8bdd6e0c0f1aa71eb897938f9635`, `#20361`, `#20373`
  - _suggested-tier fix detail withheld; re-request with `?tier=all` to include it._

## Fix status

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