# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Bot Chat click-spam minting and pin overwrite fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These changes address issues where repeated Bot Chat clicks caused unintended minting of sessions into stores and overwrote pinned state. Fixes involve correcting how the canonical Bot Chat is located and preventing spurious kickoff creation.

## 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 #92129. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #92129 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #90458: fix(desktop): blank Bot Chat click-spam mints kickoffs into default state.db and overwrites the pin

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#92129: fix(bot-mode): the canonical Bot Chat is found by name — session-id pins removed**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `AGENTS.md`, `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/activity-toasts.test.mjs`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/tests/bot-row-opens-canonical-chat.test.mjs`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/tests/canonical-chat-adopt-before-mint.test.mjs`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/tests/canonical-chat-creation.test.mjs`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/tests/canonical-chat-empty-recovery.test.mjs`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/tests/canonical-chat-identity.test.mjs`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/tests/canonical-chat-pin.test.mjs`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/tests/canonical-chat-registry.test.mjs`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/tests/hide-bot-chats.test.mjs`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/tests/new-compact-guard.test.mjs`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/tests/roster-preview.test.mjs`, `tests/tui_gateway/test_profiles_list_canonical_session.py`, `tests/tui_gateway/test_profiles_list_preferred_session.py`, `tui_gateway/methods_profiles.py`, `tui_gateway/methods_session.py`
- **#90467: fix(desktop): stop Bot Chat click-spam reminting into the launch store**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#92129`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #92129 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-22`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`