# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Expand accepted file/archive upload types in gateway

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items relate to broadening the gateway's accepted inbound file types, with specific focus on RAR and 7z archive formats across messaging platforms including Telegram. Both general and format-specific changes are represented.

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #28791: Telegram: accept .rar and .7z archive uploads as document attachments

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#28792: feat(gateway): accept rar and 7z document uploads**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
- **#57830: feat(gateway): accept rar and 7z document uploads**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `4314d451ca961cb50c3430197a3a2c7a8575fd0e`, `#28791`

## Fix status

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