# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop chat session loss and draft recovery edge cases

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address scenarios where a newly created desktop chat session disappears or returns 404 errors before or during the first message submission. The work covers surfacing new sessions in the sidebar and recovering drafts when session resume fails.

## 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 #81261. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #81261 (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: `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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #67502: Desktop: first message of a new chat dead-ends with "Prompt failed / session not found" when the draft's live session dies

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#81261: fix(desktop): recover every session-scoped RPC after a stale runtime-session drop**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/session-tile-actions.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/contrib/hooks/use-session-tile-delegate.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/session/hooks/use-prompt-actions/index.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/session/hooks/use-prompt-actions/rewind.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/session/hooks/use-prompt-actions/slash.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/session/hooks/use-prompt-actions/submit.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/session/hooks/use-prompt-actions/utils.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/session/hooks/use-prompt-actions/utils.ts`
- **#67539: fix(desktop): recover first-submit draft when session.resume 404s (#67502)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#81261`
- **#67575: fix(desktop): handle double-404 when session.resume fails during submit recovery (#67502)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#81261`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #81261 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-07`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`