# NousResearch/hermes-agent · cold-start latency and stall mitigation efforts

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

Multiple issues and PRs addressing slow cold-start performance, including a ~14s GIL stall during backend initialization and a Windows boot loop, with approaches including lazy agent init and GIL pressure mitigation.

## 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 #77814. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #77814 (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-77814`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #60800: Desktop/TUI cold-start stalls ~14s on GIL pressure during backend initialization — event loop stalled before first prompt

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#77814: perf(cold-start): mitigate the ~14s GIL stall during backend init (salvage #60807)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `hermes_cli/copilot_auth.py`, `hermes_cli/web_server.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_copilot_auth.py`, `tests/tui_gateway/test_cold_start_gil_stall.py`, `tui_gateway/ws.py`
- **#60807: perf(cold-start): mitigate ~14s GIL stall during backend init (#60800)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#77814`, `#60800`, `#73083`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #77814 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-03`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`