# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Telegram polling conflicts and gateway behavior around hermes update

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

Most members concern Telegram bot token or polling conflicts that appear around \`hermes update\`, including one issue report and several proposed fixes involving retry/backoff, recovery, stale webhook deregistration, and an update-time warning when the gateway is running. The group appears largely related, though the webhook and background task result changes and the update warning are adjacent rather than identical themes.

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 4 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.40`: 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

- #23783: Telegram bot token already in use after hermes update — gateway fails to start, Telegram broken afterwards

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#23793: fix(update): warn when gateway is running before hermes update**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `f260aa6dc0fd6ecafb36964c33a39276fdd8da0a`
- **#23806: fix(telegram): make polling conflict retryable with longer backoff**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#25630`, `#23783`
- **#25420: fix: deregister stale Telegram webhook, store bg task results**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `wontfix_bydesign`; implication `wontfix`; refs `#23783`, `#23793`, `#23806`, `#8568`, `#8592`
- **#25630: fix(telegram): recover from post-update polling conflict without entering limbo**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`

## Fix status

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