# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Plain-text token warning banner gating and messaging

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address when the desktop plain-text token warning banner appears and whether its advice is appropriately conditioned on secure storage availability and platform context. The work involves fixing the banner's trigger logic and making its guidance platform-aware.

## 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 #117639. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #117639 (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-117639`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #117269: \[Bug\]: Desktop "Token stored in plain text" banner fires in the default (keychain-off) posture with Linux-only GNOME Keyring/KWallet advice

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#117639: fix(desktop): plain-text token banner is silent in the default keychain-off posture and its advice is platform-aware (#117269, salvage #117279)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/electron/hardening.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/hardening.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/main.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/global.d.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/en.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/ja.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/ru.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/zh-hant.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/zh.ts`
- **#117279: fix(desktop): gate the plain-text token warning on secure storage being unavailable**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `5d9af50aa084`, `#117639`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #117639 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-21`.