# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Channel name emoji stripping and matching fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a bug where channel name resolution fails when names include leading or trailing emoji characters. Fixes cover emoji stripping during lookup and related channel-name matching behavior.

## 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #2836: Channel name resolution fails when names have emoji prefixes/suffixes (e.g. 🚀intel-feed)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#2837: fix(channel-directory): strip leading/trailing emoji when resolving channel names**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
- **#3023: fix(channel-directory): strip leading/trailing emoji when resolving channel names**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#2837`, `#2836`

## Fix status

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