# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Bot tile background activity starving backend pool slots

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern a bug where bot tiles performing background reconnection or reconciliation consume local backend pool slots without releasing them, particularly affecting setups with many profiles. The cluster covers the bug report and related fix attempts addressing this pool exhaustion behavior.

## 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 #107969. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #107969 (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-107969`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #103375: Bot tiles auto-reconnect in an infinite loop, starving the local backend pool (Warm Bot Backends slots never free up for 20+ profile setups)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#107969: Desktop: open bot tiles no longer cold-start or pin pooled backends from the background (#103375, salvage #103399)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/electron/main.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/registry-primary-profile-scope.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/api/sessions.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/contrib/hooks/use-background-sync.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/contrib/hooks/use-background-sync.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/global.d.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/gateway-connection-lifecycle.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/gateway.ts`
- **#103399: fix(desktop): prevent background tile reconcile from starving pool slots (#103375)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#107969`, `#103401`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #107969 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-11`.