# NousResearch/hermes-agent · web_extract and browser routing issues

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These members concern problems with how web extraction is routed between the DDGS package and a Chromium browser, including a fix to enable DDGS-based extraction, a fix to redirect explicit browser tasks away from web_extract, and a user report of Chromium access breaking and falling back to a failing DDGS web_extract.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 2 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #43099: My Hermes lost its hability to use chromium and defaults to DDGGS web_extract that fails.

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#43352: fix(browser): steer explicit browser tasks away from web_extract**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
- **#47001: fix(web/ddgs): enable web_extract via the ddgs Python package**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#84104`

## Fix status

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