# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Agent reaction events not rendering live on desktop

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a bug where agent reaction events are not delivered to or rendered by the renderer process on desktop. The fixes involve routing message.reaction events by session ID and enabling live rendering of those reactions.

## 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 #128557. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #128557 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #80678: fix(desktop): agent reactions persist but never paint live (message.reaction event not delivered to renderer)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#128557: fix(desktop): scope message.reaction events to the active session transcript**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/app/session/hooks/use-message-stream/gateway-event/desktop-bridge.reaction.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/session/hooks/use-message-stream/gateway-event/desktop-bridge.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/thread/use-message-reactions.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/gateway-switch.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/reactions-local.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/reactions-local.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/session-states.ts`, `tests/tools/test_desktop_ui.py`, `tools/desktop_ui.py`
- **#80702: fix(desktop): render agent reactions live**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
- **#80818: fix(desktop): route message.reaction events by session id, not window id**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#128557`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #128557 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-01`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`