# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Stale inflight-journal folds duplicating transcript answers

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and fixes concern stale folds in the inflight journal that cause duplicate answers in the desktop transcript. The work involves skipping stale duplicate folds and bounding journal persistence.

## 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 #86590. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #86590 (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-86590`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #85308: bug(desktop): stale inflight-journal folds duplicate transcript answers

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#86590: fix(desktop): salvage inflight-journal cluster — skip stale duplicate folds + bound journal persistence**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/package.json`, `apps/desktop/scripts/run-short-session-hang-repro.mjs`, `apps/desktop/scripts/run-short-session-hang-repro.test.mjs`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/short-session-hang-repro.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/inflight-turn-journal.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/inflight-turn-journal.ts`, `apps/desktop/vitest.config.ts`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`
- **#84021: fix(desktop): drop stale inflight-journal folds that duplicate answers**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#86590`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #86590 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-15`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`