hermes - 💡(How to fix) Fix [Bug]: Telegram rich-text link URLs are not exposed to the agent [1 pull requests]

Bug Description

When a Telegram user sends a rich-text hyperlink, Hermes passes only the visible text to the agent, not the underlying URL from Telegram’s text_link entity.

For example, a Telegram message may visually appear as linked text such as:

[财联社](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/...)

Telegram represents this as:

message.text: "财联社"
message.entities[0].type: "text_link"
message.entities[0].url: "https://mp.weixin.qq.com/..."

But the agent only receives the visible text:

财联社

As a result, the agent cannot detect or open the original source URL unless the user sends the URL as plain text.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Use Hermes through the Telegram gateway.
2. Send a Telegram rich-text hyperlink, for example a message where the visible text is 财联社 and the hidden URL is a WeChat article URL.
3. Ask the agent to summarize or open the original article.
4. Observe that the agent only sees the visible text and does not open the hidden URL.

Expected Behavior

Hermes should expose Telegram text_link URLs to the agent.

For example, it could convert the incoming message into Markdown-style text:

[财联社](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/...)

Or append extracted links after the message body:

Links:
- 财联社: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/...

Actual Behavior

Only the visible text is passed to the agent. Hidden URLs from Telegram text_link entities are not visible to the model.

Affected Component

Gateway (Telegram/Discord/Slack/WhatsApp)

Messaging Platform (if gateway-related)

Telegram

Debug Report

Report       https://paste.rs/9kxer
agent.log    https://paste.rs/5n3Pn
gateway.log  https://paste.rs/IX68X

Operating System

NixOS 26.05

Python Version

3.12.13

Hermes Version

0.14.0 (2026.5.16)

Additional Logs / Traceback (optional)

Root Cause Analysis (optional)

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Proposed Fix (optional)

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Are you willing to submit a PR for this?

• I'd like to fix this myself and submit a PR