# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Slack channel lookup deduplication and parallelization

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A performance issue where thread-qualified channel lookups fan out to ~1.6k sequential API calls, blocking gateway startup for 8–12 minutes. The associated fixes address deduplication and parallelization of those lookups.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 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 #81040. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #81040 (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: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-81040`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #80668: Slack channel directory resolves thread-qualified routing IDs individually — ~30 base conversations fan out to ~1.6k sequential conversations.info calls, blocking gateway startup for ~8–12 min

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#81040: fix(slack): dedupe + parallelize thread-qualified channel lookups (#80668)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `gateway/channel_directory.py`, `tests/gateway/test_channel_directory.py`
- **#80679: fix(slack): dedupe thread-qualified channel lookups (#80668)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#81040`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #81040 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-07`.