# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Deduplicate bots roster on desktop/remote-gateway

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and fixes address duplicate bot identities appearing in the desktop Bots roster, particularly on remote-gateway setups, and work to consolidate entries into canonical chat references.

## 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 #88523. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #88523 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #88340: Desktop Bots: duplicate roster identities create repeated @default-this-device rows

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#88523: fix(bot-mode): de-dupe the Bots roster on remote-gateway desktops (salvages #88489 + #88341)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/electron/connection-registry.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/connection-registry.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/main.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/plugin.js`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/tests/active-now-strip.test.mjs`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/tests/canonical-chat-empty-recovery.test.mjs`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/tests/multi-source-roster.test.mjs`, `apps/desktop/src/sdk/index.ts`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`
- **#88341: fix(desktop): deduplicate Bots roster and reuse canonical chats**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `7dd945b920`, `#88523`, `#88489`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #88523 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-17`.