# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Phone number redaction breaking clickable tel links

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #82405: Phone-number redaction breaks user-facing clickable tel links
- PR #82458: fix(agent): preserve phone numbers in final replies
- PR #82532: fix(agent): preserve tel: links from phone-number redaction (#82405)

These issues and fixes address a bug where phone-number redaction was stripping or corrupting tel: links in user-facing replies. The changes aim to preserve phone numbers and tel: links in final agent responses.

## TL;DR

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #82405: Phone-number redaction breaks user-facing clickable tel links

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#82458: fix(agent): preserve phone numbers in final replies**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
  - files: `agent/chat_completion_helpers.py`, `agent/redact.py`, `gateway/run.py`, `tests/agent/test_redact.py`, `tests/gateway/test_telegram_noise_filter.py`, `tests/run_agent/test_run_agent.py`
- **#82532: fix(agent): preserve tel: links from phone-number redaction (#82405)**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `agent/redact.py`

## Fix status

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