# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop chat missing interim assistant narration and tool text

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

Three members relate to the desktop chat UI and how interim or mid-turn assistant narration is handled, including a bug report about tool calls and intermediate tool execution text not appearing. Two titles are desktop fixes touching message.complete and the display.interim_assistant_messages setting; the exact relationship to the bug report is not established from titles alone.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 2 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #61822: \[Bug\]: Tool calls and intermediate tool execution text not showing up in chat at all

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#61447: fix(desktop): honor display.interim_assistant_messages — stop collapsing mid-turn narration**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`
- **#61997: fix(desktop): keep interim assistant narration on message.complete**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#61447`, `#61997`, `#61822`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`