# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop chat message rendering duplicates and gaps

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a cluster of rendering bugs in the desktop client where assistant replies could appear twice, vanish, or display incorrectly during or after tool-heavy turns, partial receipts, \`failed\` turns, and reasoning-only streams. Fixes involve transcript rendering logic and whitespace-normalized final message settlement.

## 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 #120692. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #120692 (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-120692`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #81422: \[Bug\]: Desktop — assistant final answer rendered twice after tool-heavy turn (Grok / xAI OAuth)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#120692: fix(desktop): transcript-render sweep — no duplicate or vanishing replies with partial receipts, failed turns, steers, reasoning-only streams**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/hooks/use-composer-submit.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/hooks/use-composer-submit.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/contrib/hooks/folded-tool-turn-refresh.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/session/hooks/use-message-stream/folded-segment-refresh.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/session/hooks/use-message-stream/index.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/session/hooks/use-message-stream/session-info-side-effects.test.tsx`, `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/lib/chat-messages/reconciliation.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/chat-messages/reconciliation.ts`
- **#81566: fix(desktop): settle whitespace-normalized final onto interim (#81422)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #120692 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-23`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`