# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop live-tail reply retention and deduplication fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address bugs where completed or in-progress replies could disappear or flash during live-tail refresh and backfill operations on desktop. The work focuses on correctly retaining unpersisted replies across stale refresh grafts and deduplicating backfilled fold rows by final-reply part.

## 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 #121844. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #121844 (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-121844`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #121613: \[Bug\]: Desktop — a completed reply can flash and disappear (transcript retention drops the newest rows of a live turn)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#121844: fix(desktop): keep a settled unpersisted live-tail reply across a stale refresh graft**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/app/session/hooks/use-session-actions/utils.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/session/hooks/use-session-actions/utils.ts`
- **#124472: fix(desktop): dedupe backfilled folds by final-reply part row**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `274117bd4c5e`, `f9829a4887e6`, `11d5eb81a3aa`, `#123801`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #121844 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-29`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`