# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop attachment staging and authorization fixes

## Open now

- 0 issues, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- PR #121811: fix(attachments): authorize session-staged file references
- PR #123600: fix(desktop): large pastes reach the model as text, not an out-of-workspace path

These items address a bug where attached files are staged outside the workspace causing reference rejection, along with fixes for large paste handling and authorization of session-staged file references.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 2 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 0 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #121800: \[Bug\]: Desktop file.attach stages valid attachments outside the workspace, then prompt.submit rejects its own @file reference

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#121811: fix(attachments): authorize session-staged file references**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `e3da5a12612cba36eff098bcb05a487fbee11c81`, `c43eb76d8654a81c76b62d81d3a6bd85324139ed`, `99a161531cc7b6ce8d91869666ea19cee0610156`, `ea0c2b820bd30bace020a3791d8aef0b44002e0d`, `#121800`, `#79095`, `#117669`, `#93943`, `#92618`, `#118029`
  - files: `agent/context_references.py`, `tests/tui_gateway/test_tui_gateway_server.py`, `tui_gateway/prompt_attachments.py`, `tui_gateway/prompt_turn.py`
- **#123600: fix(desktop): large pastes reach the model as text, not an out-of-workspace path**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `agent/context_references.py`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `tests/tui_gateway/test_pasted_prompt_transport.py`, `tui_gateway/prompt_attachments.py`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `agent`