# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Profile context lost during deferred/background work

## Open now

- 0 issues, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- PR #108538: fix(review): preserve the originating profile through idle dispatch

A bug where deferred background operations (reviews, curator, catalog, ledger replay, plugin routes) lose the originating profile before execution, and related fixes to preserve that profile context through idle dispatch and off-turn work.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 0 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #126165. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #126165 (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-126165`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #108537: Deferred background reviews lose the originating profile before the enabled check and worker spawn

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#126165: Off-turn work (curator, deferred reviews, catalog SWR, plugin API routes, ledger replay) runs under the requesting profile; import model_tools no longer creates state.db (#125032 #108537 #120310 #123372 #103778 #123265)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/curator.py`, `agent/review_idle_queue.py`, `gateway/run_notifications.py`, `gateway/run_startup.py`, `hermes_cli/model_catalog.py`, `hermes_cli/web_server_dashboard.py`, `tests/agent/test_curator.py`, `tests/agent/test_review_idle_queue.py`, `tests/fixtures/plugins/example-dashboard/dashboard/plugin_api.py`, `tests/gateway/test_multiplex_unserved_shared_ingress.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_model_catalog.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server.py`, `tests/plugins/test_kanban_dashboard_plugin.py`, `tests/tools/test_async_delegation.py`, `tests/tools/test_process_registry_lazy_restore.py`, `tests/tui_gateway/test_notification_turn_release.py`, `tools/async_delegation.py`, `tools/process_registry.py`, `tui_gateway/session_notifications.py`
- **#108538: fix(review): preserve the originating profile through idle dispatch**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
  - files: `agent/review_idle_queue.py`, `tests/agent/test_review_idle_profile_scope.py`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #126165 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-28`.
- Subsystem: `agent`