# NousResearch/hermes-agent · macOS privacy usage descriptions for app permissions

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address adding and improving privacy usage description strings for macOS permission prompts, including Calendar, Reminders, screen recording, local network, and music access. The work ensures the app properly declares why it needs these permissions to macOS.

## 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 #95298. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #95298 (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-95298`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #64571: \[Feature\]: Desktop. Hermes.app should include Reminders privacy usage description

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#95298: macOS privacy prompts now explain themselves — Calendar, Reminders, screen, local network, music declarations (salvage #65220/#87204/#81571/#66215)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/electron/entitlements.mac.plist`, `apps/desktop/package.json`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `tests-js/desktop-mac-usage-descriptions.test.ts`
- **#64582: fix(desktop): add Reminders privacy usage descriptions**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `708b24513`, `#95298`, `#65220`, `#64571`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #95298 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-26`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`