# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop build freshness and stamp pipeline fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address bugs in the desktop build system related to hashing, identity vs. clock-based stamping, input change detection, and race conditions that disrupt the freshness pipeline. The fixes target how build inputs are named, hashed, and checked for staleness.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #123308: fix(build): desktop build rewrites a hashed prepared input, so freshness.mjs trips on the build's own change and the caller never retries

## 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`
- **#123377: fix(build): hash the desktop stamp's identity, not its build clock (#123308)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `f17856db0a`, `e8cf816c39`, `#1`, `#2`, `#96581`, `#123376`
- **#127192: fix(build): name the inputs that changed when a product build is refused**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#127237`, `#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`.
- Subsystem: `other`