# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Windows update profile cold-start and gateway spawn fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address how Windows update handles dead-attested profiles during cold-start when another profile is running, and how the post-update gateway spawns per-profile processes while escaping the updater's Job Object.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #111404. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #111404 (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-111404`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #110959: Windows update: a dead-attested profile gets no cold-start when another profile is still running

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#111404: fix(update-windows): a dead-attested profile is cold-started even when another profile is still running (#110959, salvage #110977)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `hermes_cli/gateway_windows.py`, `hermes_cli/update_cmd_windows.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_gateway_windows.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_concurrent_quarantine.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_windows_gateway_cold_start_desktop_lifecycle.py`
- **#110977: Windows post-update gateway spawn: per-profile cold start and Scheduled-Task escape from the updater's Job Object (#110959, #84185, #107008, salvage #84409)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `d7b6f521b1`, `#111404`, `#84409`
- **#111081: fix(gateway): produce Windows Desktop update-handoff provenance**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `8c3a35b69d82`, `aaf38bb2fb`, `#110958`, `#111404`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #111404 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-15`.