# NousResearch/hermes-agent · SOUL.md not loading in Telegram gateway

## Open now

- 1 issue, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #66396: SOUL.md Not Loading in Telegram Gateway

Two members share the same title reporting that SOUL.md is not loading in the Telegram gateway. A third is a pull request about loading the root SOUL.md when the profile home contains only the seeded default, which appears related but whose connection to the Telegram reports is not confirmed by the titles alone.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 1 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_PARTIAL`): some members are connected by structural evidence (shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference); the rest are joined by an automated relevance judgement over their text.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 `0.45`: 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

- #66396: SOUL.md Not Loading in Telegram Gateway

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #66394: SOUL.md Not Loading in Telegram Gateway

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#66426: fix(agent): load root SOUL.md when profile home has only the seeded default (#66396)**. closed without merge · fix tier `suggested`
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#66396`
  - _suggested-tier fix detail withheld; re-request with `?tier=all` to include it._

## Fix status

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