# NousResearch/hermes-agent · WhatsApp group chat sender-level allowlist feature

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #41371: \[Feature\] WhatsApp: optional sender-level allowlist in group chats
- PR #41491: feat(whatsapp): add sender-level allowlist for group chats

These items all concern adding per-sender user-ID gating or allowlist filtering for WhatsApp group chat messages, described as a feature gap compared to Telegram. They cover the bug report, feature request, and implementation pull request for the same functionality.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 0 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_PARTIAL`): some members are connected by structural evidence (shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference); the rest are joined by an automated relevance judgement over their text.
- Members outside that structural core may belong to a different underlying problem.
- Pairwise link density `0.45`: 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

- #41371: \[Feature\] WhatsApp: optional sender-level allowlist in group chats

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #48394: WhatsApp: missing per-sender user-ID gating for group messages (Telegram parity)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#41491: feat(whatsapp): add sender-level allowlist for group chats**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `5600105478ffde29d7566b45421b100eaa29c4ef`
  - files: `gateway/platforms/whatsapp.py`, `tests/gateway/test_whatsapp_group_gating.py`

## Fix status

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