# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Slack and gateway clarify prompt handling and response matching

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

Members concern clarify prompts, especially multi-choice ones in Slack and the gateway. Themes include native Block Kit buttons, rejecting arbitrary prose as an answer, and threaded follow-up messages being captured by pending clarify prompts.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #69318. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #69318 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #62034: Slack threaded follow-up messages can be swallowed by pending clarify prompts

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#69318: feat(slack): native Block Kit clarify buttons + clarify UX fixes**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `gateway/run.py`, `plugins/platforms/slack/adapter.py`, `tests/gateway/test_clarify_progress_leak.py`, `tests/gateway/test_clarify_thread_followup_not_swallowed.py`, `tests/gateway/test_slack.py`, `tests/gateway/test_slack_clarify_buttons.py`, `tests/tools/test_clarify_gateway.py`, `tools/clarify_gateway.py`
- **#62042: fix(clarify): reject arbitrary prose for native interactive multi-choice clarifies**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#69318`, `#62034`
- **#62050: fix(gateway): tighten clarify text response to prevent arbitrary prose from resolving multi-choice clarifies (#62034)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#62042`, `#62034`, `#54160`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #69318 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-07-22`.
- Subsystem: `gateway`