# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop Bot chat session loading reliability fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a bug where opening a Bot chat on desktop could hang, time out, strand, or produce empty session history. The work involves retrying hydration timeouts and improving wake reliability for Bot chat sessions.

## 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 #90405. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #90405 (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-90405`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #89617: \[Bug\]: Desktop Bot Mode times out loading session history when opening a Bot

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#90405: fix(desktop): opening a Bot Chat wakes reliably instead of hanging, stranding, or emptying Sessions**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/app/contrib/wiring.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/session/hooks/use-session-actions/index.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/plugin.js`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/tests/canonical-chat-identity.test.mjs`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/tests/session-workspace.test.mjs`, `apps/desktop/src/sdk/index.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/sdk/plugin-open-session-plan.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/sdk/plugin-open-session-plan.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/sdk/profile-routing.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/gateway.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/session-request-router.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/session-request-router.ts`
- **#89638: fix(desktop): retry a hydration timeout once when opening a Bot chat**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#90405`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #90405 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-20`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`