# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop/gateway session.resume handling of old and compressed sessions

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

Members concern resuming existing sessions in the desktop app and gateway, including a bug report where resuming an old session reportedly creates a new one and freezes the old one. Related pull requests mention resolving the compression chain in session.resume and preserving stored session resumes; titles alone do not confirm outcomes.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 3 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #44640: \[Bug\]: Desktop resuming old session creates new session instead of continuing, freezes old session

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#44782: fix(gateway): resolve compression chain in session.resume**. closed without merge · fix tier `suggested`
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#44652`
  - _suggested-tier fix detail withheld; re-request with `?tier=all` to include it._
- **#44890: fix(gateway,desktop): resolve compression chain in session.resume (#44640)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#44652`
- **#44982: fix(desktop): preserve stored session resumes**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `volume_quota`; implication `active`

## Fix status

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