# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Approval timeout misattributed as explicit denial fix

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a bug where approval timeout outcomes are incorrectly reported as explicit user denials, with related work on machine-readable outcome consistency at gateway boundaries and exclusion of sudo human-wait cases.

## 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 #94568. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #94568 (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-94568`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #81048: \[Security\]\[Tier 1\] Approval timeout is misattributed as explicit user denial

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#94568: fix(approval): machine-readable outcome parity on the gateway tails + sudo human-wait exclusion (#85125 2e)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_approval_outcome_parity.py`, `tools/approval.py`, `tools/terminal_tool.py`
- **#94181: fix(approval): machine-readable outcome parity on the gateway tails + sudo human-wait exclusion (#85125 2e)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #94568 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-25`.
- Subsystem: `agent`