# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Bot-mode messaging and agent-to-agent communication

## Open now

- 1 issue, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #25698: feat(gateway): design A2A communication between gateway agent profiles

These items cover adding a tool for agents to send direct messages without shell execution, fixing truncation bugs in teammate DM delivery, and designing agent-to-agent (A2A) communication via gateway profiles.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #89762. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #89762 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.67`: 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.

## Open related issues

- #25698: feat(gateway): design A2A communication between gateway agent profiles

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#89762: fix(bot-mode): teammate DM bodies no longer truncate or execute in the shell (supersedes #89077)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `hermes_cli/_parser.py`, `hermes_cli/main.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_chat_query_file.py`, `tools/bot_mode_probe.py`
- **#89077: feat(bot-mode): agent_message tool — teammate DMs without a shell**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#89762`, `#34744`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #89762 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-19`.
- Subsystem: `agent`