# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Clarify timeout configuration inconsistencies across CLI, TUI, desktop, gateway

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

All three members concern the clarify timeout: one issue reports that TUI/Desktop has multiple code paths with differing defaults and config keys, and two pull requests propose making the timeout consistent or honoring the TUI setting. Their outcomes are not established by the titles.

## 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 #69774. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #69774 (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-69774`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #51960: Clarify timeout not configurable on TUI/Desktop — three code paths, three defaults, two config keys, one unconfigurable

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#69774: fix(clarify): one canonical timeout across CLI, TUI/desktop, and gateway**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `cli.py`, `hermes_cli/callbacks.py`, `tests/test_tui_gateway_server.py`, `tests/tools/test_clarify_gateway.py`, `tools/clarify_gateway.py`, `tui_gateway/server.py`
- **#51993: fix: honor tui clarify timeout**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#69774`, `#51960`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #69774 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-07-23`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`