# NousResearch/hermes-agent · JSON NO_REPLY envelope visibility filtering in gateway

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #72935: JSON NO_REPLY envelopes are delivered as visible messages
- PR #72936: fix(gateway): suppress JSON silence envelopes

These issues and pull requests concern JSON NO_REPLY (silence) envelopes being incorrectly delivered or displayed as visible messages in the gateway. The work involves recognising and suppressing these envelopes in response filters.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 2 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Open related issues

- #72935: JSON NO_REPLY envelopes are delivered as visible messages

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#72936: fix(gateway): suppress JSON silence envelopes**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `95365226df97`, `#72935`, `#72936`, `#73034`, `#73607`, `#374151`
  - files: `gateway/response_filters.py`, `tests/gateway/test_response_filters.py`, `tests/gateway/test_stream_consumer_silence.py`
- **#73034: fix(gateway): recognise JSON NO_REPLY envelope in response filters (#72935)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#72936`, `#72935`
- **#73607: fix(gateway): filter JSON NO_REPLY envelopes from visible messages**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#72935`, `#73607`

## Fix status

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