# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Fix markdown preview link navigation in desktop app

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and pull requests address problems with link handling in the desktop app's markdown preview, specifically TOC anchor links not scrolling to headings and preview links not opening inside the app.

## 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 #121823. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #121823 (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-121823`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #81055: \[Bug\]: A note's own table-of-contents links do nothing in the Desktop markdown preview (no heading ids, no href on #fragment links)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#121823: fix(desktop): open markdown preview links inside the app**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/right-rail/preview-file.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/right-rail/preview-file.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/local-preview.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/preview-markdown-links.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/preview-markdown-links.ts`
- **#81080: fix(desktop): make in-page markdown TOC links scroll to headings (#81055)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `stale_abandoned`; implication `active`
- **#121710: fix(desktop): open markdown preview links inside the app**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#121823`, `#81055`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #121823 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-25`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`