# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop sidebar session ordering in mergeSessionPage merging

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These members center on desktop sidebar session ordering, with one issue reporting that mergeSessionPage survivors keep stale relative positions. The two fix pull requests propose sorting survivors by last_active and enforcing broader merge, dedup, and order consistency, but their outcomes are not established here.

## 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 #86598. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #86598 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #47203: Bug: Desktop sidebar session order is distorted when mergeSessionPage survivors preserve stale relative positions

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#86598: fix(desktop): consistent sidebar session merge/dedup/order invariants (#47203, #73314, #85969, #86247)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/sidebar/index.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/sidebar/order.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/sidebar/order.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/sidebar/session-index.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/sidebar/session-index.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/session-signatures.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/session-signatures.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/session.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/session.ts`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`
- **#47324: fix(desktop): sort survivors by last_active in mergeSessionPage to prevent stale sidebar order**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#86598`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #86598 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-15`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`