# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop missing CLI-sourced sessions in sidebar

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a gap where sessions created by external processes with a CLI source were not appearing in the desktop sidebar. The work involves polling the full session list and ensuring the sessions change watcher starts correctly at backend boot.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 2 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #103420: Desktop sidebar omits sessions created by external processes with source=cli (gap in the #41827 messaging-only fix)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#103704: fix(desktop): poll full session list against legacy backends so external cli-source sessions surface (#103420)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `f49afd3122`, `#103420`
- **#120447: fix(desktop): start sessions.changed watcher at backend boot (#103420)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `f49afd3122`, `#103420`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.