# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Windows compatibility fixes for tests and paths

## Open now

- 1 issue, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #57883: 6 tests fail on native Windows for environmental reasons: symlink tests need a WinError-1314 privilege skip; oauth-write test asserts POSIX chmod bits

These items address Windows-specific failures including drive-letter path matching in image reference extraction and test suite adaptations for symlink privileges and POSIX chmod assumptions on native Windows.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 3 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #57883: 6 tests fail on native Windows for environmental reasons: symlink tests need a WinError-1314 privilege skip; oauth-write test asserts POSIX chmod bits

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#57885: fix(tests): skip/adapt 6 environment-dependent tests on native Windows**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
- **#58347: fix(tests): skip symlink tests without privilege, relax oauth chmod on Windows (#57883)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`
- **#61571: fix(agent): match Windows drive-letter paths in extract_image_refs**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#34374`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `agent`