# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Distinguish auto-discovered repos from explicit projects in sidebar

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a gap in the desktop sidebar where auto-discovered repository lanes and explicitly added projects appear visually indistinguishable. The work involves adding differentiation between the two types in the sidebar overview.

## 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 #106536. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #106536 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #80383: Desktop sidebar doesn't distinguish explicit projects from auto-discovered repo lanes

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#106536: Desktop sidebar tells auto-discovered repos apart from explicit projects (#106162, salvage #81359)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/sidebar/projects/overview-row.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/sidebar/projects/overview-row.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/ar.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.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/zh.ts`
- **#81359: fix(desktop): distinguish auto-discovered repos from explicit projects in the sidebar overview**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `fc362888322654bcec1ad35aaa3be45807e9c512`, `#106536`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #106536 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-09`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`