# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop transcript compaction visibility issues

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These members concern a bug where older messages become inaccessible in desktop sessions due to compaction, along with related fixes to surface archived turns and preserve transcript visibility.

## 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 #86595. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #86595 (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-86595`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #80680: \[Bug\]: Desktop “Show earlier messages” disappears before reaching the true session start

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#86595: fix(desktop): salvage compaction transcript-visibility cluster — surface archived turns + preserve running-session transcripts (#67871)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/app/session/hooks/use-session-actions.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/session/hooks/use-session-actions/index.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/session/hooks/use-session-actions/utils.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/session/hooks/use-session-actions/utils.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/hermes.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/hermes.ts`, `hermes_cli/web_routers/sessions.py`, `hermes_state.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server.py`, `tests/hermes_state/test_get_messages_include_compacted.py`
- **#83757: fix(desktop): surface compaction-archived messages in transcript reads (#80680)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#86595`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #86595 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-15`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`