# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop secondary session ownership preservation fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and pull requests address a bug where profile-only secondary sessions on desktop lose ownership, which blocks approval response routing. The work focuses on preserving trusted secondary session ownership and keeping approval buttons routable.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #104954. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #104954 (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: `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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #103755: \[Bug\]: Desktop profile-only secondary events lose session ownership, blocking approval responses

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#104954: fix(desktop): secondary-profile approval buttons remain routable (#103755, salvage #103774)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/app/gateway/hooks/use-gateway-boot.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/gateway-profile-only-owner.integration.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/gateway.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/session-event-provenance.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/session-states.ts`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `website/docs/user-guide/multi-connection-desktop.md`
- **#103770: fix(desktop): preserve profile-only secondary session ownership (#103755)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `0daa993450d3dadfce0ed514abd333b0907da0d0`, `#104954`
- **#103774: fix(desktop): preserve trusted secondary session ownership**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `0daa993450d3dadfce0ed514abd333b0907da0d0`, `#104954`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #104954 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-07`.