# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Fix Windows drive-letter path detection in image handling

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #61568: extract_image_refs misses Windows drive-letter paths (missed by #34632) — kanban image enrichment silently broken on native Windows, 12 tests fail
- PR #61668: fix(image-routing): detect Windows image paths

These items address a bug where image reference extraction fails to recognize Windows drive-letter paths, causing silent breakage on native Windows. Multiple fixes and a bug report are grouped around the same path-detection gap.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 1 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.67`: 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.

## Open related issues

- #61568: extract_image_refs misses Windows drive-letter paths (missed by #34632) — kanban image enrichment silently broken on native Windows, 12 tests fail

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#61571: fix(agent): match Windows drive-letter paths in extract_image_refs**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#34374`
- **#61668: fix(image-routing): detect Windows image paths**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#34374`, `#61568`
  - files: `agent/image_routing.py`, `tests/agent/test_image_routing.py`

## Fix status

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