# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Clean up temporary browser profiles on desktop update exit

## Open now

- 0 issues, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- PR #104355: fix(desktop-update): clean up throwaway browser profile directory
- PR #104362: fix(desktop-update): remove the shim's throwaway profile on exit

These issues and pull requests concern a bug where the desktop update process leaves behind temporary or throwaway browser profile directories in TMPDIR, and proposed fixes to remove them on exit.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 2 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 0 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #104983. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #104983 (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-104983`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #104350: Desktop update never removes its shim browser profile, about 117 MB left in TMPDIR per update

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#104983: fix(desktop-update): remove owned temporary browser profiles on exit (#104350)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `scripts/desktop-update/posix.sh`, `tests/test_desktop_update_shim_profile_cleanup.py`
- **#104355: fix(desktop-update): clean up throwaway browser profile directory**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#104355`
  - files: `scripts/desktop-update/posix.sh`
- **#104362: fix(desktop-update): remove the shim's throwaway profile on exit**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#104355`, `#104350`
  - files: `scripts/desktop-update/posix.sh`, `tests/test_desktop_update_shim_profile_cleanup.py`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #104983 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-07`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`