# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Docker HERMES_HOME creation and permission denied errors

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

Two pull requests change Docker setup to create HERMES_HOME as root before a chown or gosu privilege drop, and one bug report mentions a 'Cannot create home directory: Permission denied' message. The titles suggest a shared theme around home directory permissions in the Docker entrypoint, but the exact link between the bug report and the pull requests is not confirmed by the titles alone.

## 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.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-33078`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #18482: \[Bug\]: Cannot create home directory: Permission denied

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#18488: fix(docker): bootstrap HERMES_HOME as root before gosu drop**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `fb298a958`, `#33078`
- **#33078: fix(docker): mkdir HERMES_HOME as root in stage2 before chown / privilege drop (#18488)**. merged to main
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `docker/stage2-hook.sh`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `environments`