# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Custom CSS persistence and desktop theme injection

## Open now

- 1 issue, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #53012: \[Feature Request\] Support custom CSS injection that persists through updates

These members concern passing custom CSS into the desktop theme context and a request for a persistence mechanism so that user-defined CSS survives application updates.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 1 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 #123020. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #123020 (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-123020`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_PARTIAL`): some members are connected by structural evidence (shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference); the rest are joined by an automated relevance judgement over their text.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 `0.39`: 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

- #53012: \[Feature Request\] Support custom CSS injection that persists through updates

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #53013: \[Bug\] User custom CSS lost after every update (no persistence mechanism)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#123020: fix(skins): carry customCSS end-to-end so user CSS survives desktop updates**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/themes/backend-sync.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/themes/backend-sync.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/themes/context.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/themes/context.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/themes/skin.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/themes/types.ts`, `apps/shared/src/skin.ts`, `hermes_cli/skin_engine.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_skin_engine.py`, `tests/tui_gateway/test_protocol.py`, `tui_gateway/change_watcher.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/skins.md`
- **#70841: fix(desktop): pass skin customCSS through to desktop theme context**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#123020`, `#53013`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #123020 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-26`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`