NousResearch/hermes-agent

macOS app path conflict with bootstrap installer

Cluster 125245 · apps/desktop. Data as of

2 open items. Fix attempted, not merged.

The short answer

1open issue
1open PR
4items grouped
Known?
Yes. 4 related items grouped here, 0 issues already closed.
Fix event
No fix has been merged to main. 2 PRs closed without merging; see the attempts below.
Tracker
The maintainers' tracker marks this unresolved. That is separate from the fix event.
Still open
1 issue and 1 PR.

A bug and related fixes address a conflict on macOS where the Hermes-Setup installer occupies /Applications/Hermes.app, causing silent update failures and unintended reinstalls. The fixes focus on reclaiming that path so the desktop app and update mechanism work correctly.

Open issues1

  • Issue#125245[Bug]: macOS — the Hermes-Setup installer and the desktop app share /Applications/Hermes.app; once the installer occupies it, `hermes update` silently stops refreshing it and double-click runs a full install

Open PRs1

  • PR#128567fix(update): reclaim the Hermes-Setup installer from the macOS install path

2 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: superseded by another PR 2

  • #125268 fix(desktop): reclaim /Applications/Hermes.app occupied by the bootstrap installer · superseded by another PR
  • #125270 fix(update): replace the Hermes-Setup installer left at /Applications/Hermes.app · superseded by another PR
How this cluster was grouped
  • Link evidence (structural links throughout): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
  • Pairwise link density 0.50: the share of item 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.

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2 PRs closed without merging

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