# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Sessions sidebar startup latency and CPU fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a ~41-second startup delay caused by the sessions sidebar endpoint scanning all profile skill trees, plus related idle CPU and polling inefficiencies in the desktop UI.

## 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 #86754. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #86754 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #78325: Sessions sidebar blocks ~41s on startup: GET /api/profiles/sessions calls list_profiles(), which rglobs every profile's skills tree

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#86754: perf(desktop/dashboard): salvage idle & polling CPU fixes — unfocused UI pause, sidebar scan bounds, pet poll, PTY back-off, kanban WS zombie reap**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/app/contrib/hooks/use-background-sync.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/contrib/hooks/use-background-sync.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/shell/hooks/use-status-snapshot.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/shell/hooks/use-status-snapshot.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/thread/status.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/chat/activity-timer.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/chat/activity-timer.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/hooks/use-viewed-interval.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/statusbar.tsx`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `contributors/emails/{ID}+{username}@users.noreply.github.com`, `hermes_cli/web_routers/profiles.py`, `hermes_cli/web_server.py`, `plugins/kanban/dashboard/plugin_api.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_cron_profile_enumeration_lightweight.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_profiles_sidebar_cache.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server_pty_idle_backoff.py`, `tests/plugins/test_kanban_ws_idle_disconnect.py`, `ui-tui/src/__tests__/petPolling.test.ts` (+2 more)
- **#78420: fix(cli): skip skills count in sessions sidebar endpoint (#78325)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `30b83ab7b1`, `f0cfe5a56f`, `#86754`, `#78325`
- **#102365: fix: Sessions sidebar blocks ~41s on startup: GET /api/profiles/sessions calls list_profiles(), which rglobs every profile's skills tree (#78325)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#86754`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #86754 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-15`.
- Subsystem: `hermes_cli`