# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop app unresponsiveness and journal persistence fix

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A bug report describes the macOS desktop app becoming unresponsive after several messages, alongside two related fixes that bound in-flight journal persistence behavior and reduce excessive rewriting.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #86590. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #86590 (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-86590`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #63047: \[Bug\]: Desktop app becomes completely unresponsive (including Settings) after ~5 messages on macOS 27 beta

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#86590: fix(desktop): salvage inflight-journal cluster — skip stale duplicate folds + bound journal persistence**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/package.json`, `apps/desktop/scripts/run-short-session-hang-repro.mjs`, `apps/desktop/scripts/run-short-session-hang-repro.test.mjs`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/short-session-hang-repro.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/inflight-turn-journal.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/inflight-turn-journal.ts`, `apps/desktop/vitest.config.ts`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`
- **#80872: fix(desktop): bound the in-flight turn journal and stop rewriting it every 400ms**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#82832`
- **#82832: fix(desktop): bound inflight journal persistence (#63047)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#86590`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #86590 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-15`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`