# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop remote artifact routing fixes and corrections

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address bugs where remote artifacts, Git content, and media in desktop SSH/remote workspaces were being routed to the wrong backend, causing 401 and 403 errors. The work involves correcting how remote file and resource requests are dispatched based on connection context.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 2 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #93571. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #93571 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #89916: bug(desktop): registered remote artifact reads route to local gateway

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#93547: fix(desktop): SSH workspaces no longer 401 on images, downloads, and media streams (#92378, salvage #92992)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/electron/connection-config.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/connection-config.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/gateway-file-download-transport.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/gateway-file-download.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/gateway-file-download.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/main.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/media-protocol.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/media-protocol.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/global.d.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/desktop-fs.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/desktop-fs.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/media.remote.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/media.ts`
- **#93571: fix(desktop): remote Git artifacts no longer 403 from the wrong backend (#89916, salvage #89918)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/lib/desktop-git.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/desktop-git.ts`
- **#89918: fix(desktop): route remote file requests by connection**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `0b62c27bf13b3c870d33b8b726ae0b7b48313931`, `#93571`, `#93547`, `#92992`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #93571 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-24`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`