# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Send selected text to composer feature requests

## Open now

- 2 issues, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #41254: \[Feature\]: Right-click 'Send Selection to Composer' for chat/preview text
- #52554: Desktop App: floating "Quote" button on selected text in chat pane
- PR #41262: feat(desktop): add right-click 'Send Selection to Composer' for non-editable surfaces
- PR #138751: feat(desktop): quote a transcript selection into the composer

Multiple overlapping proposals for surfacing selected chat text into the composer, via floating buttons, right-click menus, per-message reply buttons, or quote actions. The members share a common theme of text-selection-to-composer interaction patterns on the desktop app.

## TL;DR

- 6 member(s): 2 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 2 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_PARTIAL`): some members are connected by structural evidence (shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference); the rest are joined by an automated relevance judgement over their text.
- Members outside that structural core may belong to a different underlying problem.
- Pairwise link density `0.25`: 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

- #41254: \[Feature\]: Right-click 'Send Selection to Composer' for chat/preview text
- #52554: Desktop App: floating "Quote" button on selected text in chat pane

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #66121: feat(desktop): ChatGPT-style "Reply with selection" floating button

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#41262: feat(desktop): add right-click 'Send Selection to Composer' for non-editable surfaces**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `39d09453f95e8aefc0c97e5d9b30ff341cae9ed8`
  - files: `apps/desktop/electron/main.cjs`, `apps/desktop/electron/preload.cjs`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/queue-panel.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/desktop-controller.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/global.d.ts`, `hermes_cli/skills_hub.py`, `tests/tools/test_skills_hub.py`, `tools/skills_hub.py`
- **#41300: feat(desktop): add per-message Reply button and Send Selection to Composer**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `39d09453f`, `7ff6908a5`
- **#138751: feat(desktop): quote a transcript selection into the composer**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/focus.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/hooks/use-composer-draft.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/hooks/use-composer-draft.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/thread/list.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/thread/quote-action.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/thread/quote-action.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/thread/quote-selection.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/thread/quote-selection.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/thread/show-earlier-button.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/ar_chat.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/de.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/de_composer.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/en.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/en_composer.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/es.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/es_composer.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/fr.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/fr_composer.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/ja.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/ja_composer.ts` (+9 more)

## Fix status

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