# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Clarify update failure messages for desktop builds

## Open now

- 0 issues, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- PR #127222: fix(update): make unaccounted receipt rows and desktop build failures self-explanatory (#122228)

These items address a bug where Hermes update records an outcome of \`failed\` when only the desktop packaged-app build fails, and work to make unaccounted receipt rows and desktop build failures more self-explanatory in error reporting.

## TL;DR

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #122228: \[Bug\]: hermes update records outcome=failed when only the desktop packaged-app build fails (code/deps/web UI already swapped)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#122281: fix(update): make unaccounted receipt rows and desktop build failures self-explanatory**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`
- **#127222: fix(update): make unaccounted receipt rows and desktop build failures self-explanatory (#122228)**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#122228`
  - files: `hermes_cli/main_desktop.py`, `hermes_cli/update_inventory.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_restart_plan_reconciliation.py`

## Fix status

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