# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Profile backend credential isolation on desktop

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern a bug where desktop-spawned profile backends incorrectly inherit dotenv or parent-process credentials, and efforts to isolate credentials so each profile only uses its own configured platform connections.

## 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 #121276. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #121276 (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-121276`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #68367: bug(profiles): Desktop-spawned profile serve/gateway inherits Tlon credentials from parent process env, connecting a platform the profile explicitly disabled → duplicate responders on the same Urbit moon

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#121276: fix(desktop): profile backends don't inherit the launch profile's dotenv credentials**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/electron/backend-env.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/backend-env.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/main.ts`
- **#68786: fix(desktop): isolate credentials for profile backends**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#121276`, `#68367`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #121276 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-24`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`