# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Playwright install fixes and version bumps

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address Playwright installation issues including a hang during archive extraction and failures on certain Linux environments, alongside related version and preflight check updates.

## 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 #93357. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #93357 (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-93357`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #76312: \[Bug\]: Playwright Chromium installation hangs indefinitely at "extracting archive" on Node 26 (Playwright 1.58.2, CachyOS)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#93357: fix(install): Fedora installs stop dying in node-gyp — C++ compiler preflight actually runs; desktop Playwright bumped for Ubuntu 26.04 (#93063, #93126)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/package.json`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `scripts/install.sh`
- **#91478: fix(install): refresh Playwright upgrade for current main**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#93357`, `#76312`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #93357 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-24`.
- Subsystem: `apps/bootstrap-installer`