# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Dismissed preview chips reappearing after navigation or re-render

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern a bug where dismissed preview chips or artifacts reappear unexpectedly after navigation, reload, or re-registration. The work involves preserving dismissed state across these events on the desktop.

## 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 #117288. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #117288 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #51687: Desktop: dismissed preview artifacts reappear on re-render

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#117288: fix(desktop): dismissed preview chips stay dismissed across navigation and reload (#92341, salvage #116953 + #115160)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/status-stack/index.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/session/hooks/use-message-stream/gateway-event/tools-preview.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/session/hooks/use-message-stream/gateway-event/tools.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/tool/fallback-model/index.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/tool/fallback-model/targets.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/tool/fallback-preview-scope.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/tool/fallback.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/preview-targets.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/preview-status-edge-cases.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/preview-status-lifecycle.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/preview-status.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/preview-status.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/session-states.ts`, `apps/shared/src/gateway-events.ts`, `apps/shared/src/json-rpc-gateway.ts`, `contributors/emails/112681813+PuvaanRaaj@users.noreply.github.com`, `website/docs/user-guide/desktop.md`
- **#51706: fix(desktop): preserve dismissed preview state on re-registration (#51687)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `c1488ac947c9bc33fd65ec464548dc9d8edd6122`, `#51687`, `#117288`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #117288 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-20`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`