NousResearch/hermes-agent

Desktop markdown rendering of unknown HTML-like tokens and tildes

Cluster 53953 · apps/desktop. Data as of 2026-10-24 20:38 UTC

Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #122787 on 25 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.

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Known?: Yes. 4 related items grouped here, 1 issue already closed.
Fix event: A fix was merged to main in PR #122787. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
Tracker: The maintainers' tracker marks this resolved, deciding PR #122787. That is separate from the fix event.
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The members appear to share one theme: the Hermes Desktop markdown renderer handling bare <word> sequences (unknown HTML-like tokens) in assistant text, with one bug report and several proposed fixes to escape or preserve them. One title also mentions lone tildes, a closely related rendering detail.

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#122787 fix(desktop): escape lone tildes and unknown html-like tokens in markdown prose

merged to main

files: apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/markdown-text.prose-safety.test.tsx, apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/markdown-text.test.ts, apps/desktop/src/lib/markdown-preprocess.directives.test.ts, apps/desktop/src/lib/markdown-preprocess.reasoning.test.ts, apps/desktop/src/lib/markdown-preprocess.ts

2 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: done elsewhere 1 · duplicate 1

#53964 fix: escape unknown desktop markdown tags · done elsewhere → bd0affe
#58113 fix(desktop): preserve unknown html-like markdown tokens · duplicate → #53964

Closed issues · 1

Closed#53953[Bug]:Hermes Desktop markdown renderer silently consumes bare `<word>` sequences in assistant text (unknown HTML-like tokens treated as unclosed tags)

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Subsystem: apps/desktop
Merged PRs: #122787
Closed issues: 1
Attempts: 2 PRs closed without merging
Fix link checked: 25 Sep 2026

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