# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Prevent duplicate projects sharing a primary path

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These members address a bug where multiple projects with the same primary path cause duplicated sidebar lanes, covering backend rejection of duplicate creation and frontend deduplication with recency ordering and stale-lane eviction.

## 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 #86756. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #86756 (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-86756`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #75820: project_create should dedup by primary_path — duplicated projects multiply the sidebar lane bug (#71837)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#86756: fix(desktop): one lane per repo/folder — dedupe project lanes, recency order, stale-lane eviction**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/electron/git-worktree-ops.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/git-worktree-ops.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/sidebar/projects/workspace-groups.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/sidebar/projects/workspace-groups.ts`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `contributors/emails/rsk-731@users.noreply.github.com`, `hermes_cli/projects_db.py`, `hermes_state.py`, `hermes_state_common.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_projects_db.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_session_recovery_lost_and_found.py`, `tests/state/test_session_git_metadata_generation.py`, `tests/tui_gateway/test_project_tree.py`, `tests/tui_gateway/test_session_git_metadata_generation.py`, `tools/project_tools.py`, `tui_gateway/project_tree.py`, `tui_gateway/server.py`
- **#75981: fix(projects): reject create when primary_path already owns a project**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#75820`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #86756 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-15`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`