# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Telegram gateway polling conflict recovery and freezing

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

One bug report describes the Telegram gateway freezing after polling conflict recovery, with passive routing stopping. Two pull requests, both referencing #40691, propose changes to recovery behavior, including dropping pending updates on conflict recovery. The titles alone do not show whether these changes address the reported freeze.

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #40691: \[BUG\] Telegram Gateway freezes after polling conflict recovery — passive routing stops working

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#40744: fix(telegram): drop pending updates on conflict recovery (#40691)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `d5ba374c038a99db99e3036d938271e70a6930fd`, `#40691`
- **#40827: fix(gateway): recover Telegram polling after conflicts (#40691)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `f03823014b01b7b85a6777040e1bb02a68cf8877`, `d5ba374c038a99db99e3036d938271e70a6930fd`, `#40691`

## Fix status

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