# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop backend pool slot timeout actionability work

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address making backend pool slot timeout errors actionable for users, with related fixes for profile-switch behavior causing duplicate primaries or stranded pool wakes. Work spans UX proposals, a targeted fix, and a consolidating change referencing several related issues.

## 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 #108118. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #108118 (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-108118`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #105082: ux(desktop): make backend pool slot timeouts actionable with direct Settings deep-link or LRU auto-eviction

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#108118: Desktop: profile switches no longer spawn a duplicate primary or strand pool wakes, and a slot-cap timeout is actionable (#105082, #103230; salvage #102892 #103295 #105264)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/electron/main.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/pool-eviction.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/pool-eviction.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/pool-spawn-coordinator.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/primary-profile-pin.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/primary-profile-pin.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/contrib/wiring-routing.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/contrib/wiring.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/notifications.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/ar.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/en.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/ja.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/ru.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/types.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/zh-hant.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/zh.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/notifications.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/pool-limits.ts`
- **#105264: fix(desktop): make backend pool slot timeouts actionable**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `7dec81568e`, `#108118`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #108118 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-11`.