# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Route desktop preview tools via gateway WebSocket

## Open now

- 1 issue, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #79585: feat(desktop): route preview.open / desktop_ui events through gateway WebSocket for remote-backend deployments

These items address making desktop preview tools and UI events accessible when using remote or cloud backends by routing them through the gateway WebSocket connection. The work involves exposing and correctly forwarding preview-related functionality for non-local deployments.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 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 #80699. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #80699 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.67`: 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.

## Open related issues

- #79585: feat(desktop): route preview.open / desktop_ui events through gateway WebSocket for remote-backend deployments

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#80699: The desktop's tools reach it on remote and cloud backends too**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `AGENTS.md`, `apps/desktop/AGENTS.md`, `tests/test_toolsets.py`, `tests/test_tui_gateway_server.py`, `tests/test_tui_mcp_late_refresh.py`, `tests/tools/test_focus_pane_tool.py`, `tests/tools/test_open_preview_tool.py`, `tests/tools/test_read_preview_tool.py`, `tests/tui_gateway/test_gui_surface_toolsets.py`, `tools/close_terminal_tool.py`, `tools/focus_pane_tool.py`, `tools/open_preview_tool.py`, `tools/react_to_message_tool.py`, `tools/read_preview_tool.py`, `tools/read_terminal_tool.py`, `toolsets.py`, `tui_gateway/server.py`, `website/docs/reference/tools-reference.md`, `website/docs/reference/toolsets-reference.md`
- **#80597: fix(desktop): expose preview tools for remote gateways**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#80699`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #80699 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-07`.
- Subsystem: `gateway`