# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Telegram flood-wait handling and stall fixes

## Open now

- 1 issue, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #89962: \[Bug\]: Telegram flood RetryAfter on send() sleeps ~1000s; stall-notify and gateway restart keep the chat silent

These issues and PRs address how the gateway handles Telegram flood-control (RetryAfter) penalties, covering incorrect fallback to plain text, inbound freezing during boot, and extended silences caused by long sleep durations.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 2 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #104370. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #104370 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #89962: \[Bug\]: Telegram flood RetryAfter on send() sleeps ~1000s; stall-notify and gateway restart keep the chat silent

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#92173: fix(gateway): don't freeze inbound on Telegram flood sleep during boot (salvage of #91986)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `gateway/run.py`, `plugins/platforms/telegram/adapter.py`, `tests/gateway/test_delivery_ledger.py`, `tests/gateway/test_restart_resume_pending.py`, `tests/gateway/test_telegram_send_path_health.py`
- **#104370: fix(gateway): flood-capped Telegram sends back off for retry_after instead of re-sending as plain text (salvage #100072)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/cdepuy@users.noreply.github.com`, `gateway/platforms/base.py`, `tests/gateway/test_send_retry.py`
- **#89968: fix(telegram): fail closed on long send-path flood penalties**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `a444b673ad`, `9e4135fad8`, `#92173`, `#91986`, `#104370`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #104370 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-06`.
- Subsystem: `gateway`