# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Slack peer-agent routing tests and reply-storm fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items add repeatable smoke tests for Slack peer-agent routing and introduce fixes to prevent multi-agent reply storms, including peer-bot gating, edited-mention handling, and per-channel overrides.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 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 #69483. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #69483 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #51630: Add repeatable Slack peer-agent routing smoke test

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#69483: fix(slack): prevent multi-agent reply storms — peer-bot gating, edited mentions, per-channel overrides**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/YLChen-007@users.noreply.github.com`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `hermes_cli/config.py`, `plugins/platforms/mattermost/adapter.py`, `plugins/platforms/slack/adapter.py`, `plugins/platforms/slack/plugin.yaml`, `tests/conftest.py`, `tests/gateway/test_mattermost.py`, `tests/gateway/test_slack.py`, `tests/gateway/test_slack_ignore_other_user_mentions.py`, `tests/gateway/test_slack_mention.py`, `tests/gateway/test_slack_peer_agent_smoke.py`, `tests/gateway/test_slack_require_mention_channels.py`, `tests/test_slack_thread_require_mention.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/messaging/slack.md`
- **#51637: test(slack): add peer-agent smoke target**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#69483`, `#51630`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #69483 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-07-23`.
- Subsystem: `gateway`