# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop caching and repeated probe/request fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address unnecessary repeated operations in the desktop client, including redundant SSH probes, distro spawns, live-status requests, and transcript re-serialisation. A specific focus is caching transcript byte weights to avoid recomputing them when unchanged.

## 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 #106552. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #106552 (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-106552`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #106123: Bug (desktop): cache unchanged transcript byte weights

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#106552: Desktop stops repeating SSH uname probes, wsl.exe distro spawns, transcript re-serialisation and live-status requests (#106131 #106129 #106123 #106098, salvage #106132 #106130 #106124 #106099)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/electron/main.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/remote-lifecycle.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/remote-lifecycle.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/wsl-path-bridge.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/wsl-path-bridge.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/contrib/hooks/use-background-sync.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/contrib/hooks/use-background-sync.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/session/session-state-cache.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/session/session-state-cache.ts`
- **#106124: fix(desktop): cache unchanged transcript byte weights**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `d31318745c`, `#106552`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #106552 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-09`.