# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Approval prompt delivery and cancellation accuracy

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address issues where approval flows incorrectly report user denial when no prompt was actually shown, and work to correctly distinguish between cancelled approvals and explicit user denials. Related fixes also ensure approval, sudo, and secret prompts are properly rendered so tools do not silently time out.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 2 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #112554. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #112554 (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-112554`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #22992: Approval flow can return 'User denied' when no prompt is delivered

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#112308: fix(approval): withdrawn gateway approval prompts no longer read as a user deny (#112026, #22992, salvage #25305, #112032)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `tests/gateway/test_session_boundary_security_state.py`, `tests/tools/test_approval_cancelled_attribution.py`, `tests/tools/test_approval_interrupt.py`, `tools/approval.py`, `tools/approval_gateway_wait.py`, `tools/approval_prompt.py`, `tools/delegate_tool_child_run.py`, `tools/file_tools_write_guards.py`, `website/docs/developer-guide/observer-hooks.md`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/hooks.md`
- **#112554: CLI approval prompts that were never answered no longer read as a user denial (#22992)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `hermes_cli/observability/schemas/hermes.shared_metrics.v2.schema.json`, `hermes_cli/observability/shared_metrics_contract.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_relay_shared_metrics.py`, `tests/tools/test_approval.py`, `tests/tools/test_approval_cancelled_attribution.py`, `tools/approval.py`, `tools/approval_prompt.py`, `tools/file_tools_write_guards.py`, `website/docs/developer-guide/observer-hooks.md`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/hooks.md`
- **#25305: fix(approval): distinguish cancelled approval from explicit user deny**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `1e2cb57973`, `#112308`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #112554 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-16`.
- Subsystem: `agent`