# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Remote backend WebSocket renderer connection issues

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern a failure where the desktop renderer's WebSocket connection to a remote backend fails before opening, along with a revert of related changes and a fix to accept loopback renderer origins on remote WebSocket upgrades.

## 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 #130852. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #130852 (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: `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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #130710: Windows Desktop update: remote backend is ready, renderer WebSocket fails before open

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#130852: revert: Desktop connects to remote backends and keeps its settings again (reverts #127201, #130015, #128552)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/electron/embed-referer.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/embed-referer.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/main.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/remote-ws-headers.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/renderer-server.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/renderer-server.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/renderer-url.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/renderer-url.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/close-tab.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/preview-tile.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/preview-tile.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/model-picker-overlay.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/session/hooks/use-session-actions/index.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/shell/hooks/use-statusbar-items.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/embeds/embed-consent.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/embeds/providers/detect.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/embeds/providers/types.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/embeds/providers/youtube.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/embeds/url-embed.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/embeds/youtube-embed.test.ts` (+19 more)
- **#130856: fix(dashboard): accept loopback renderer origin on remote WS upgrades**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#130852`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #130852 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-01`.