# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Gateway relay roster cleanup on peer removal

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and pull requests address a bug where removing a machine from Connections causes it to persist incorrectly in other gateways' relay rosters, and a related edge case where the relay clears remaining gateways' rosters when the peer count drops below two.

## 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 #111428. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #111428 (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-111428`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #111262: fix(desktop): a machine removed from Connections stays in every other gateway's relay roster

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#111428: fix(desktop): a machine removed from Connections leaves every gateway's relay roster (#111262, salvage #111264)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/relay.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/relay.ts`
- **#111264: fix(desktop): the relay clears the remaining gateways' remote roster when the peer set drops below two**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#111428`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #111428 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-15`.