# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Gateway dedup falsely blocking TTS/MEDIA delivery

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These members address a bug where MEDIA paths in tool results were incorrectly triggering deduplication logic in the gateway, causing TTS and media voice messages to never be delivered. The fix involves skipping MEDIA scanning within tool results to prevent false-positive matches.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.67`: 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

- #74928: BUG: TTS/MEDIA voice messages never delivered via gateway (false-positive history dedup)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#74936: fix(gateway): skip MEDIA: scanning in tool results to prevent TTS false-positive dedup**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `d26983e4856`, `#74482`, `#74928`
- **#74947: fix(gateway): stop tool-result MEDIA paths from poisoning delivery dedup (#74928)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `d26983e4856`, `#74482`, `#74928`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.