NousResearch/hermes-agent

Slack bot thread timestamp eviction ordering fix

Cluster 51019 · gateway. Data as of

Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #69484 on 23 Jul 2026. Check it covers your case.

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A bug was identified where the Slack gateway evicted arbitrary (rather than oldest-first) thread timestamps from tracking structures, causing the bot to silently stop responding to active threads. The associated changes address eviction ordering and bounding of per-message tracking structures.

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  • #69484 fix(slack): bound all per-message tracking structures with oldest-first eviction

    merged to main

    files: contributors/emails/[email protected], plugins/platforms/slack/adapter.py, tests/gateway/test_slack.py, tests/gateway/test_slack_approval_buttons.py

2 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: closed without comment 1 · merged via another change 1

  • #51023 fix(slack): sort timestamps before evicting from _bot_message_ts and … · closed without comment
  • #51097 fix(slack): evict oldest tracked thread timestamps · merged via another change → #69484, #51019
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#51019[Bug]: Slack gateway evicts arbitrary thread timestamps from _bot_message_ts / _mentioned_threads — bot silently stops responding to active threads
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Subsystem
gateway
Merged PRs
#69484
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2 PRs closed without merging
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23 Jul 2026

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