# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop SSH connections to Windows remotes and PowerShell stdin issues

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern the desktop app's SSH connections to Windows remotes. One is a bug report of intermittent timeouts attributed to a PowerShell stdin ReadToEnd() EOF race over Windows OpenSSH, one is a change about compressing PowerShell scripts to avoid that race, and one is a change about connecting to Windows SSH remotes from a Windows desktop.

## 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 #143898. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #143898 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #138378: \[Bug\]: Desktop SSH to Windows remote intermittently times out (80%+ failure rate) due to PowerShell stdin ReadToEnd() EOF race over Windows OpenSSH

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#143898: fix(desktop): connect to Windows SSH remotes from a Windows desktop**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/electron/main.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/remote-lifecycle.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/windows-remote-inventory.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/windows-remote-inventory.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/windows-remote-lifecycle.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/windows-remote-lifecycle.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/windows-runtime-command.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/windows-ssh-repair.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/settings/gateway-settings.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/settings/gateway-settings.tsx`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `hermes_cli/windows_ssh_runtime.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_windows_ssh_runtime_inventory.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_windows_ssh_runtime_ownership.py`
- **#138401: fix(desktop): compress Windows SSH PowerShell scripts to avoid stdin EOF race**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `bac34e9e99`, `1f8f961536`, `#143898`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #143898 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-24`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`