# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop transcript incomplete turn recovery fix

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These members address a bug where assistant transcript turns complete in the backend but the desktop UI fails to render them. The work involves recovering or salvaging incomplete transcript turns so they display correctly without requiring an app restart.

## 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 #99667. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #99667 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #88036: \[Bug\]: Desktop transcript stops rendering new assistant output — turn completes in backend/state.db but UI stays blank until app restart (3 e2e specs fail deterministically on clean tree)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#99667: fix(desktop): recover incomplete transcript turns (salvage #88127)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/app/session/hooks/use-message-stream/gateway-event/session-info.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/session/hooks/use-message-stream/index.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/session/hooks/use-message-stream/interim-sealing.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/session/hooks/use-message-stream/session-info-side-effects.test.tsx`
- **#88127: fix(desktop): recover incomplete transcript turns**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#99667`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #99667 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-31`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`