# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Branch child session title deduplication and naming

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #121062: Desktop branch child sessions are born untitled, flooding the sidebar with unnamed rows
- PR #121115: fix(tui_gateway): advance a racing branch child's lineage title instead of dropping its row

These items address a bug where branch child sessions in the desktop TUI appear untitled or produce duplicate lineage titles in the sidebar. The fixes target the persist-branch logic to properly assign and advance titles for racing or newly created branch children.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Open related issues

- #121062: Desktop branch child sessions are born untitled, flooding the sidebar with unnamed rows

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#121115: fix(tui_gateway): advance a racing branch child's lineage title instead of dropping its row**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#121062`
  - files: `tests/tui_gateway/test_branch_child_title_race.py`, `tui_gateway/methods_session.py`
- **#121118: fix(tui-gateway): dedupe taken lineage titles in _persist_branch**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `e30b2dd3f222`, `#50537`, `#3`, `#4`, `#2`, `#7`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`