# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop project folder session creation and stability

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and pull requests address bugs and features related to starting, preserving, and stabilizing sessions tied to project folders in the desktop app, including sidebar state, working directory handling, and session persistence across restarts.

## TL;DR

- 7 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 2 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 2 merged PR(s), 3 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #115711. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #115711 (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: `partially_resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-122968`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_PARTIAL`): some members are connected by structural evidence (shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference); the rest are joined by an automated relevance judgement over their text.
- Members outside that structural core may belong to a different underlying problem.
- Pairwise link density `0.26`: 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

- #53004: \[Bug\]: Projects paradigm (#49037) broke the folder → session → sidebar flow — right sidebar shows "no project open", can't start a session in a chosen folder
- #63516: Desktop v0.18.2: New sessions under project folders don't execute and disappear after restart

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#63732: feat(desktop): start Projects from the folder rail**. closed without merge · fix tier `suggested`
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#68621`
  - _suggested-tier fix detail withheld; re-request with `?tier=all` to include it._
- **#115711: Desktop: create a project from a folder in one step (#53004, salvage #68621)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/sidebar/project-dialog.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/sidebar/project-dialog.tsx`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`
- **#122968: fix(desktop): restore folder-pick affordance and filter sidebar to session-bearing projects**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/sidebar/index.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/sidebar/project-filter.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/sidebar/project-filter.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/right-sidebar/index.tsx`
- **#53057: fix(desktop): restore right sidebar folder picker + cwd fallback chain**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`
- **#68621: fix(desktop): create a project from a folder in one step**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `603007ead347608c81bf95fd7b40c3fff9e4bed5`, `#115711`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #115711 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-25`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`