# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop setting to disable sticky user messages

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #38372: Add a setting to turn off sticky user messages in Desktop
- PR #126514: feat(desktop): setting to turn off sticky user messages

These items all concern adding a user-facing setting in the desktop application to turn off sticky user messages. The members appear to describe the same feature from multiple angles or submissions.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 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: `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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Open related issues

- #38372: Add a setting to turn off sticky user messages in Desktop

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#101506: feat(desktop): add setting to disable sticky user messages**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#126514`
- **#126514: feat(desktop): setting to turn off sticky user messages**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `80bf5b87b3f567f9f6d72863dbb2586bf594b614`, `#101506`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/app/settings/appearance-settings.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/settings/settings-manifest.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/thread/sticky-user-message.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/thread/user-message.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/ar.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/de.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/en.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/es.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/fr.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/ja.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/ru.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/types.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/zh-hant.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/zh.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/sticky-user-messages.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/sticky-user-messages.ts`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`