# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Telegram album delivery and caption handling fixes

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #9291: Telegram media delivery: albums silently degrade, captions leak into streamed text, and per-item captions aren't supported
- PR #9297: feat(gateway): telegram media delivery — reliable albums, no caption leakage, per-item captions
- PR #10444: fix(gateway): Telegram album delivery with per-item captions

These issues and pull requests address problems with Telegram media album delivery, including silent degradation, caption text leaking into streamed output, and missing support for per-item captions on album members.

## 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #9291: Telegram media delivery: albums silently degrade, captions leak into streamed text, and per-item captions aren't supported

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#9297: feat(gateway): telegram media delivery — reliable albums, no caption leakage, per-item captions**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `5600105478ffde29d7566b45421b100eaa29c4ef`
  - files: `agent/prompt_builder.py`, `gateway/platforms/base.py`, `gateway/platforms/telegram.py`, `gateway/run.py`, `gateway/stream_consumer.py`, `tests/agent/test_prompt_builder.py`, `tests/gateway/test_platform_base.py`, `tests/gateway/test_run_progress_topics.py`
- **#10444: fix(gateway): Telegram album delivery with per-item captions**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#9291`, `#9297`
  - files: `agent/prompt_builder.py`, `gateway/platforms/base.py`, `gateway/platforms/telegram.py`, `gateway/run.py`, `gateway/stream_consumer.py`, `skills/autonomous-ai-agents/hermes-agent/send-media-group/SKILL.md`, `tests/agent/test_prompt_builder.py`, `tests/gateway/test_album_delivery_e2e.py`, `tests/gateway/test_platform_base.py`, `tests/gateway/test_run_progress_topics.py`

## Fix status

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