# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop backend update falsely reporting failure on success

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

The members concern the desktop app's remote backend update flow, where a "Backend update \`failed\`" message is reported even when the update succeeds. Three of the four are fix-oriented changes aiming to avoid false failure reports, one of which also mentions making updates terminal-state driven; the fourth is the issue describing the problem.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #79513. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #79513 (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: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-79513`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #47359: Desktop: backend update reports "Backend update failed" even when the update succeeds

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#79513: fix(desktop): stop reporting false failure on successful backend updates**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/store/updates.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/updates.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/types/hermes.ts`, `hermes_cli/main.py`, `hermes_cli/update_cmd.py`, `hermes_cli/web_server.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_hangup_protection.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server.py`
- **#47362: fix(desktop): don't report false failure on a successful backend update**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#79513`
- **#65681: fix(desktop): make remote backend updates terminal-state driven**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#79513`, `#52470`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #79513 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-05`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`