# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Profile flag and dashboard default-profile behavior

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address how the --profile default flag is handled by the gateway and how the dashboard reports or acts on the selected profile. They cover naming, status display, and action routing related to profile selection.

## 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 #126148. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #126148 (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: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-126148`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #100817: Dashboard reports default-profile gateway as stopped when started with explicit --profile default

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#126148: Dashboard actions, sign-ins and the switcher act on the profile you pick; --profile default is the default gateway (#120688 #123616 #123980 #124283 #125025 #96712 #100817)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/ipriyaaanshu@users.noreply.github.com`, `gateway/status.py`, `hermes_cli/gateway.py`, `hermes_cli/web_routers/audio.py`, `hermes_cli/web_routers/config_env.py`, `hermes_cli/web_routers/cron.py`, `hermes_cli/web_routers/dashboard_ui.py`, `hermes_cli/web_routers/models.py`, `hermes_cli/web_routers/oauth.py`, `hermes_cli/web_routers/profiles.py`, `hermes_cli/web_routers/status.py`, `hermes_cli/web_server_gateway.py`, `hermes_cli/web_server_oauth.py`, `hermes_cli/web_server_profiles.py`, `tests/gateway/test_status.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_dashboard_admin_endpoints.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_gateway_unnamed_default_home_verbs.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_local_runtime.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_web_oauth_dispatch.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_web_recommended_default_profile.py` (+8 more)
- **#100888: fix(gateway): an explicit --profile default names the default profile**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#100888`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #126148 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-28`.
- Subsystem: `gateway`