# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Message edit/restore failures due to ordinal mismatch

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A bug where desktop message editing or session restore is refused with error 4030, caused by incorrect use of window-relative or live-scrollback ordinals instead of durable IDs. Fixes address truncation and profile DB lookup logic to use stable identifiers.

## 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 #91302. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #91302 (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-91302`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #89244: \[Bug\]: Desktop Restore after in-place compaction refused with 4030 (live-scrollback ordinal ≠ resolved row_id)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#91302: fix: editing a message in an old session fails (profile DB + window-relative ordinal)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/app/session/hooks/use-prompt-actions/index.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/session/hooks/use-prompt-actions/rewind.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/session/hooks/use-prompt-actions/rewind.ts`, `tests/tui_gateway/test_session_profile_db.py`, `tui_gateway/methods_prompt.py`, `tui_gateway/methods_tools.py`, `tui_gateway/server.py`
- **#88092: fix(desktop): aim truncations by durable id alone (edit/restore refused 4030)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#91302`, `#76366`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #91302 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-21`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`