# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop app URL and markdown link rendering bugs

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

Multiple bugs and fixes related to how the desktop app handles URLs in assistant messages, including bare URLs rendering as invisible text and markdown links being malformed or corrupted by a URL preprocessing step.

## 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 #122078. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #122078 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #38209: \[Bug\]: Desktop assistant responses render bare URLs as blank/invisible text

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#122078: fix(desktop): pop-out scope adoption, bare URLs stay visible, citeturn markers, traffic-light overlap, SSH paste attachments**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/context_references.py`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/browser-popout-handoff.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/right-rail/preview.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/markdown-text.bare-url.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/markdown-text.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/pane-shell/tree/renderer/narrow-overlays.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/pane-shell/tree/renderer/narrow-overlays.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/markdown-preprocess.citation.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/markdown-preprocess.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/preview.ts`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `contributors/emails/phantomthedog@users.noreply.github.com`, `tests/agent/test_context_references.py`, `tests/tools/test_credential_files.py`, `tools/credential_files.py`
- **#38213: fix(desktop): render bare URLs visibly in assistant messages**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#122078`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #122078 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-26`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`