# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Hide close buttons on Sessions and Bots tabs

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address removing or conditionally hiding the hover close (✕) buttons on persistent Sessions and Bots navigation tabs in the desktop app. Access to close/remove actions is proposed via right-click and command palette instead.

## 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 #89572. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #89572 (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-89572`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #89546: \[Bug\] Desktop: hide hover close buttons on persistent SESSIONS | BOTS navigation tabs

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#89572: feat(desktop): SESSIONS/BOTS tabs lose the ✕ — show/hide via right-click and ⌘K instead (#89546, salvage #89551)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/app/contrib/controller.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/pane-shell/tree/hide-only-strip-tabs.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/components/pane-shell/tree/renderer/track-model.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/components/pane-shell/tree/renderer/tree-group.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/pane-shell/tree/store.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/components/ui/pane-tab.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/ui/pane-tab.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/ar.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/en.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/ja.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/types.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/zh-hant.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/zh.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/plugin.js`
- **#89551: fix(desktop): hide hover close buttons on Sessions and Bots tabs**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `a807d18a13`, `#89572`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #89572 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-19`.