# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Telegram platform hint incorrectly says markdown unsupported

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

All three members concern the Telegram platform hint in the prompt, which reportedly states that markdown does not render. One is a bug report and two are changes titled as correcting the hint to say markdown is supported.

## 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 #10612. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #10612 (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: `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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #8244: Bug: Telegram platform hint wrongly claims markdown does not render

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#10612: fix(prompt): correct Telegram platform hint — markdown is supported (#8261)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/prompt_builder.py`
  - fix hunks:
  - `agent/prompt_builder.py`

    ```diff
    @@ -295,7 +295,9 @@ def _strip_yaml_frontmatter(content: str) -> str:
         ),
         "telegram": (
             "You are on a text messaging communication platform, Telegram. "
    -        "Please do not use markdown as it does not render. "
    +        "Standard markdown is automatically converted to Telegram format. "
    +        "Supported: **bold**, *italic*, ~~strikethrough~~, ||spoiler||, "
    +        "`inline code`, ```code blocks```, [links](url), and ## headers. "
             "You can send media files natively: to deliver a file to the user, "
             "include MEDIA:/absolute/path/to/file in your response. Images "
             "(.png, .jpg, .webp) appear as photos, audio (.ogg) sends as voice "
    ```
- **#8261: fix(prompt): correct Telegram platform hint — markdown is supported**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#10612`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #10612 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-04-16`. This confirmation is old and may be out of date (a revert/reopen would not have invalidated it here); re-verify.