# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop pet animation breaks after session reclaim

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and fixes address a bug where the desktop pet stops animating in sessions that have been reclaimed or are in draft state, including in pop-out windows. The fix involves recency-guarded activity to restore animation behavior in affected sessions.

## 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 #114181. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #114181 (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-114181`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #84434: \[desktop\] Pet stops animating in one session after backend reclaim, while other sessions stay fine

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#114181: fix(desktop): pet animates for reclaimed/draft sessions and in the pop-out window (#84434, #84438, salvage #86802)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/store/pet-overlay.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/pet.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/pet.ts`
- **#86802: fix(desktop): pet animates for reclaimed/draft sessions via recency-guarded activity**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `82e87e9ff53b`, `1878e5f969`, `e252aeac00`, `91f679a140`, `#114181`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #114181 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-17`.
- Subsystem: `agent/pet`