# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Telegram Bot API guest message handling

## Open now

- 1 issue, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #46196: \[Bug\]: disable streaming for guest replies that use answerGuestQuery

These items cover implementing and refining support for Telegram's guest mode, where bots receive and respond to messages from non-member chats via the Bot API. Work includes delivery, answering guest queries, and disabling streaming for those replies.

## TL;DR

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

## Open related issues

- #46196: \[Bug\]: disable streaming for guest replies that use answerGuestQuery

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#43049: feat(telegram): implement Bot API 10.0 guest mode (@mention from non-member chats)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#56476`, `#56477`
- **#51082: feat(telegram): deliver and answer Bot API guest messages**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#43049`

## Fix status

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