# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Windows read-only .git file deletion fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address failures when removing git-installed plugins or other git-managed directories on Windows, where .git pack files and objects are read-only and cause deletion errors. The work involves handling read-only file permissions during cleanup across plugins, checkpoints, MCP catalog, and profile distributions.

## 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 #117609. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #117609 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #80886: \[Bug\]: hermes plugins remove fails on Windows with WinError 5 on .git pack files

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#117609: fix(windows): Git-tree cleanup deletes read-only objects for checkpoints, plugins, MCP catalog and profile distributions (#117170 #117179 #117176 #117184, salvage #117318)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/sy0u1ti@users.noreply.github.com`, `hermes_cli/mcp_catalog.py`, `hermes_cli/plugins_cmd.py`, `hermes_cli/profile_distribution.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_mcp_catalog.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_plugins_cmd.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_profile_distribution.py`, `tests/test_utils_rmtree_readonly.py`, `tools/checkpoint_manager.py`, `utils.py`
- **#80888: fix(cli): delete git-installed plugins on Windows despite read-only .git objects**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `b79b530eecf`, `#117609`, `#80886`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #117609 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-21`.
- Subsystem: `hermes_cli`