# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop override backend missing root, gateway request handling

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

Members center on the Desktop app's HERMES_DESKTOP_HERMES override producing a 'command' backend without a root, which ticketRuntimeFor reportedly rejects, affecting gateway-API requests. One PR addresses carrying the launcher-reported root; another gateway PR is broader, covering Desktop/TUI access, start, restart and authentication.

## 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 #139661. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #139661 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #138774: Desktop: HERMES_DESKTOP_HERMES pin yields a rootless 'command' backend that ticketRuntimeFor rejects — all gateway-API requests fail

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#139661: fix(gateway): Desktop and TUI can reach, start, restart and authenticate to the one gateway again (#139574, package 6)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/electron/local-gateway-stale-restart-owner.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/local-gateway.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/local-gateway.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/main.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/updater-process.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/updater-process.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/api/canonical-create-options.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/api/canonical-producer-contract.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/api/canonical-protocol.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/api/canonical-protocol.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/gateway/hooks/use-gateway-boot-profile-pick.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/gateway/hooks/use-gateway-boot.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/profile.ts`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `gateway/drain_control.py`, `gateway/run_api.py`, `gateway/run_bootstrap.py`, `gateway/run_runtime.py`, `gateway/run_shutdown.py`, `gateway/runtime_bootstrap_windows.py` (+39 more)
- **#138809: fix(desktop): carry the launcher-reported root on override command backends**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `3a99ad6b67e`, `#139661`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #139661 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-16`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`