# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Stale provider handling on resumed sessions

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address how desktop, CLI, and TUI gateway components behave when a resumed session references a provider that has been deleted or renamed. The work focuses on falling back to current config defaults rather than failing or routing incorrectly.

## 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 #97008. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #97008 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #75128: Desktop and CLI provider/model routing divergence after config changes

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#97008: fix(desktop): sessions with deleted/renamed providers resume cleanly; Bot Chats follow current profile config (salvage #96111 + #90343)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/plugin.js`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/tests/group-chat.test.mjs`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `hermes_cli/runtime_provider.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_canonical_custom_identity.py`, `tests/test_tui_gateway_server.py`, `tests/tui_gateway/test_custom_provider_session_persistence.py`, `tests/tui_gateway/test_stale_provider_resume_live.py`, `tui_gateway/methods_session.py`, `tui_gateway/server.py`
- **#78947: fix(tui-gateway): fall back to config default when resumed session's provider is gone**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#97008`, `#96111`
- **#96111: fix(tui-gateway): heal or fall back when a resumed session's provider is stale**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#97008`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #97008 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-28`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`