# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Fix regex anchors missing Unicode token boundaries

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #81073: \[Bug\]: gateway: _GATEWAY_SECRET_PATTERNS \\b anchors miss CJK/Unicode-glued tokens on fallback path
- PR #94826: fix(redact): mask Unicode-glued Bearer residue on egress

These items address a bug where word-boundary anchors in gateway secret patterns fail to match or redact tokens that are adjacent to CJK or other Unicode characters. Fixes target both the pattern matching and egress redaction layers.

## TL;DR

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

## Open related issues

- #81073: \[Bug\]: gateway: _GATEWAY_SECRET_PATTERNS \\b anchors miss CJK/Unicode-glued tokens on fallback path

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#81097: fix(gateway): anchor fallback secret patterns with ASCII word lookarounds**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
- **#94826: fix(redact): mask Unicode-glued Bearer residue on egress**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `agent/redact.py`, `tests/agent/test_egress_bearer_ascii_edge.py`

## Fix status

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