# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Photon iMessage sidecar stability and dependency issues

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern recurring problems with the Photon iMessage sidecar: spectrum-ts version mismatches, stale npm dependencies, sidecar death spirals without respawn, and gateway failure to exit on fatal adapter errors. Multiple fixes and upgrades target sidecar startup, health monitoring, and crash recovery behavior.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 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 #59213. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #59213 (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: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-59213`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #59169: hermes update doesn't reinstall Photon sidecar npm deps after a spectrum-ts version bump

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#59213: fix(photon): auto-reinstall stale sidecar deps before start (salvage #57943)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `plugins/platforms/photon/adapter.py`, `scripts/release.py`, `tests/plugins/platforms/photon/test_sidecar_deps_stale.py`
- **#57943: fix(photon): auto-reinstall stale sidecar deps before start**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `3cd93f6aa`, `#59213`, `#59169`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #59213 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-07-06`.
- Subsystem: `gateway`