# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Terminal selection text missing intermittently in desktop

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A bug where @terminal selection references sometimes arrive without the selected text, and a corresponding fix to expand terminal selections during busy-turn steering and queuing.

## 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 #128964. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #128964 (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-128964`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #77078: \[Bug\]: Desktop — @terminal:\`zsh:N-M\` selection reference intermittently arrives without the selected text

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#128964: fix(desktop): expand @terminal selections on busy-turn steer and queue**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/hooks/use-composer-queue.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/hooks/use-composer-queue.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/hooks/use-composer-submit.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/hooks/use-composer-submit.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/session/hooks/use-background-queue-drain.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/session/hooks/use-background-queue-drain.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/session/hooks/use-prompt-actions/submit.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/ar_chat.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/en.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/ja.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/types.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/zh-hant_chat.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/zh.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/composer-queue.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/composer-queue.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/composer.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/composer.ts`, `locales/_keys.desktop.json`
- **#77248: fix(desktop): expand @terminal selections on busy-turn steer and queue**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #128964 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-01`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`