# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Sticker descriptions need user-content delimiters

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #4263: Security: Sticker description injected into conversation without delimiters
- PR #4268: security: mark sticker descriptions as user-supplied content to prevent prompt injection
- PR #106962: fix(telegram): frame sticker descriptions as user-supplied, not instructions

These issues and PRs concern a security risk where sticker descriptions are passed into conversations without being marked as user-supplied content, potentially enabling prompt injection attacks. The proposed fix involves labeling sticker descriptions appropriately to prevent this.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 2 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #4263: Security: Sticker description injected into conversation without delimiters

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#4268: security: mark sticker descriptions as user-supplied content to prevent prompt injection**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
  - files: `gateway/sticker_cache.py`
- **#106962: fix(telegram): frame sticker descriptions as user-supplied, not instructions**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#106962`, `#4263`, `#4268`, `#6518`
  - files: `gateway/sticker_cache.py`, `tests/gateway/test_sticker_cache.py`

## Fix status

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