# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop session list stability across profiles and paging

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern the Desktop app's session lists, including the all-profiles view where pinned chats may repeat and other sessions may be missing. Related pull requests mention keeping sessions stable across restarts and paged merges, plus resume and Bots groups; the titles alone don't confirm outcomes.

## 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 #140972. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #140972 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #140518: Desktop all-profiles sessions can repeat pinned chats and omit other sessions

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#140972: fix(desktop): keep Desktop session lists, resume and Bots groups stable across restarts (package 10, lane 4b)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/electron/main.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/profile-session-routing.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/profile-session-routing.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/registry-backend-identity.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/registry-backend-identity.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/en.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/en_deep_links.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/overlay-gaps.json`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/types.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/types_deep_links.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/canonical-group-alias-scope.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/canonical-group-capability-gates.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/canonical-group-registry.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/canonical-group-reopen-by-name.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/canonical-group-workspace.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/cold-bot-switch-pending.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/create-dialog.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/group-bot-handoff.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/group-chat-view.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/group-chat-view.tsx` (+14 more)
- **#140519: fix(desktop): keep all profile sessions across paged merges**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#140972`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #140972 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-18`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`