# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Suppress empty or silent responses in cron delivery

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and PRs address cases where cron-triggered agent responses are empty, minimal, or explicitly marked \[SILENT\], causing unwanted or invalid messages to be sent via Slack and Telegram. The work involves guarding against empty text in chat.postMessage and suppressing delivery when responses should be silent.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 2 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #69317. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #69317 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_PARTIAL`): some members are connected by structural evidence (shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference); the rest are joined by an automated relevance judgement over their text.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 `0.39`: 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

- #5023: Platform-level \[SILENT\] response suppression for cron jobs
- #52663: BLOCKER: Slack chat.postMessage no_text when cron delivers empty/minimal agent response

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#69317: fix(slack): sanitize outbound Block Kit payloads — invalid_blocks / msg_too_long hardening**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `plugins/platforms/slack/adapter.py`, `plugins/platforms/slack/block_kit.py`, `tests/gateway/test_slack.py`, `tests/gateway/test_slack_approval_buttons.py`, `tests/gateway/test_slack_block_kit.py`, `tests/gateway/test_slack_block_kit_adapter.py`
- **#52672: fix(slack): guard against empty text in chat.postMessage (#52663)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#69317`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #69317 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-07-22`.
- Subsystem: `cron`