Bug Description
When using Matt Pocock's engineering skills, the wayfinder and grilling skills typically ask a series of questions, each question usually provides a multiple choice answer. When presented on Slack (both desktop app and Android app presents the same way), each choice is presented in a button that can be pressed. However, the button provides very limited space, so the choice is almost always truncated, which makes it impossible to understand. There is no alt text to show the full text that was truncated in the button. This makes this capability unusable in practice.
Steps to Reproduce
- Setup hermes gateway for slack
- Install https://github.com/mattpocock/skills
- git init a repository
- Start a hermes session in a slack thread. Say to work in that repo's directory
- /wayfinder destination is a spec. start an ambitious project that will require grilling to ask questions, such as creating a new Web site or REST API.
- During grilling, a multiple choice question will be asked, and the problem will present itself.
Expected Behavior
Only recently within the past week did Hermes start presenting multiple choice questions as buttons to click. Previous to that (with no change Matt Pocock's engineering skills), these choices were presented as text, and it expected me to choose by answering "yes" to accept the recommended choice, or to choose an enumerated value associated to each choice. This worked much better.
Actual Behavior
Attaching a screenshot where button text is truncated.
Affected Component
Gateway (Telegram/Discord/Slack/WhatsApp)
Messaging Platform (if gateway-related)
Slack
Debug Report
Debug bundle uploaded to Nous (private):
View URL https://support.nousresearch.com/diagnostics/30667600-c8af-4dfa-b496-1276c320ddd2
Operating System
Linux Mint 22.3
Python Version
3.11.15
Hermes Version
0.20.0 (2026.8.3) · upstream 91937a6
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?
Bug Description
When using Matt Pocock's engineering skills, the wayfinder and grilling skills typically ask a series of questions, each question usually provides a multiple choice answer. When presented on Slack (both desktop app and Android app presents the same way), each choice is presented in a button that can be pressed. However, the button provides very limited space, so the choice is almost always truncated, which makes it impossible to understand. There is no alt text to show the full text that was truncated in the button. This makes this capability unusable in practice.
Steps to Reproduce
Expected Behavior
Only recently within the past week did Hermes start presenting multiple choice questions as buttons to click. Previous to that (with no change Matt Pocock's engineering skills), these choices were presented as text, and it expected me to choose by answering "yes" to accept the recommended choice, or to choose an enumerated value associated to each choice. This worked much better.
Actual Behavior
Attaching a screenshot where button text is truncated.
Affected Component
Gateway (Telegram/Discord/Slack/WhatsApp)
Messaging Platform (if gateway-related)
Slack
Debug Report
Operating System
Linux Mint 22.3
Python Version
3.11.15
Hermes Version
0.20.0 (2026.8.3) · upstream 91937a6
Additional Logs / Traceback (optional)
Root Cause Analysis (optional)
No response
Proposed Fix (optional)
No response
Are you willing to submit a PR for this?