# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Telegram bot loses queued messages after restart

## Open now

- 1 issue, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #71811: \[Bug\]: Telegram cold boot discards the queued update backlog — every machine reboot silently drops commands sent while the bot was offline

These issues and a fix concern the Telegram gateway discarding messages or updates that arrived while the bot was offline or restarting. The proposed behavior is to preserve and process that pending queue across cold boots rather than silently dropping it.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 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 #116134. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #116134 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Open related issues

- #71811: \[Bug\]: Telegram cold boot discards the queued update backlog — every machine reboot silently drops commands sent while the bot was offline

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#116134: Telegram gateway can keep the messages sent while it was offline (#71811, salvage #105899)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `cli-config.yaml.example`, `plugins/platforms/telegram/adapter.py`, `tests/gateway/test_telegram_cold_boot_queue.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/messaging/telegram.md`
- **#71862: fix(telegram): preserve pending-update queue on cold boot by default**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `51bdc8a1b5`, `#116134`, `#105899`, `#71811`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #116134 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-19`.
- Subsystem: `gateway`