# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop performance: reduce redundant concurrent work

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items focus on improving desktop performance by fetching roster profiles and installing identity concurrently, and eliminating redundant work in roster polling and streamed tool event handling.

## 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 #106590. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #106590 (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-106590`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #106133: Performance (desktop): fetch roster profiles and install identity concurrently

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#106590: Desktop roster poll and streamed tool events stop doing redundant work (#106133, #106125, salvage #106134, #106126)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/electron/main.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/roster-source-fetch.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/roster-source-fetch.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/chat-messages/tool-parts.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/generated-images.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/generated-images.ts`
- **#106134: perf(desktop): fetch roster profiles and install identity concurrently**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `544169a41a`, `#106590`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #106590 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-09`.