# NousResearch/hermes-agent · macOS metadata corrupts desktop build freshness checks

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and fixes concern macOS Finder metadata files (e.g. .DS_Store) interfering with build freshness hashing on desktop, along with related timing and completion pipeline concerns. The work focuses on excluding OS-generated artifacts from freshness detection logic.

## 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 #127237. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #127237 (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-127237`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #122632: \[Bug\]: macOS .DS_Store trips desktop build freshness check, so hermes update never reports success

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#127237: fix(build,update): OS metadata, stamp-clock races and stacked completions break the desktop freshness pipeline**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/scripts/bundle-electron-main.mjs`, `hermes_cli/source_completion.py`, `scripts/build/README.md`, `scripts/build/desktop.mjs`, `scripts/build/freshness.mjs`, `scripts/build/frontend-common.mjs`, `tests-js/desktop-builder.test.mjs`, `tests-js/freshness-metadata.test.mjs`, `tests-js/frontend-common.test.mjs`, `tests-js/product-builders.test.mjs`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_source_completion_stamp.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_completion_process.py`
- **#122636: fix(build): skip macOS Finder metadata in build freshness hashing (#122632)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `64eca050ec`, `dde4bc7bb7`, `#122632`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #127237 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-01`.