# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop group chat picker offers bots from mismatched connections

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

Members center on the desktop New Group Chat picker listing bots from other connections and then rejecting them with a same-authority-connection error. Two members are fixes that limit group choices to supported connections and cover secondary profiles and Bots on a multiplexed local gateway; their outcomes are not stated in the titles.

## 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 #141928. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #141928 (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: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-141928`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #141178: \[Bug\]: New Group Chat offers bots from other connections, then refuses them — "Group members must belong to the same authority connection"

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#141928: fix(desktop): secondary profiles and Bots work on a multiplexed local gateway (completions, tickets, group picker, worker status)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/secret_scope.py`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/hooks/completion-route.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/hooks/use-at-completions.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/hooks/use-completions-owner-route.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/hooks/use-slash-completions.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/sidebar/session-actions-menu.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/thread/user-edit-composer-owner-route.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/thread/user-edit-composer.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/model-visibility-dialog.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/mcp-reload.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/model-options.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/model-options.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/oneshot.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/session-owner-routed-rpcs.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/yolo-session.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/canonical-group-capabilities.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/canonical-group-capability-gates.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/create-agent-lazy-profile.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/create-dialog.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/roster-pane-dialogs.tsx` (+28 more)
- **#141286: fix(desktop): limit group choices to supported connections**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `72166e61969d942139c02520ac2407999780500d`, `#141928`, `#142248`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #141928 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-20`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`