# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop onboarding state lost on transient runtime failures

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and fixes concern the desktop onboarding overlay incorrectly reappearing or resetting when transient runtime probe failures or timeouts occur. The work focuses on preserving cached onboarding state across such failures rather than treating them as a genuine 'needs setup' condition.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #51884. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #51884 (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-51884`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #37554: Desktop: onboarding overlay re-appears on every app restart

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#51884: fix(desktop): preserve onboarding state on transient runtime probe failures**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/store/onboarding.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/onboarding.ts`
- **#37634: fix(desktop): keep onboarding cache sticky across transient runtime failures (fixes #37554)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#51884`, `#37634`, `#51434`
- **#51434: fix(desktop): avoid false 'needs setup' on transient runtime-check timeouts**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#51884`, `#37634`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #51884 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-06-24`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`