# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Enable text selection in user chat messages

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #52457: feat(desktop): allow selecting and copying individual messages including user messages
- PR #80270: fix(desktop): make user messages selectable for copying

These items address making user messages selectable and copyable in the desktop interface. All three members focus on the same specific interaction capability for user-authored messages.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 1 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.67`: 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.

## Open related issues

- #52457: feat(desktop): allow selecting and copying individual messages including user messages

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#52466: fix(desktop): make user messages selectable for copying**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`
- **#80270: fix(desktop): make user messages selectable for copying**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `1918edd50db25f4c2b49a0e8b8c9a867a0617141`, `ea0d54db1d22416ea07cd98abfb5d6e160aa86c9`, `#52457`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/thread/user-message-text.tsx`

## Fix status

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