# NousResearch/hermes-agent · SSH remote profile switching spawns wrong backend

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A bug where switching profiles on an SSH remote connection incorrectly spawns a local backend and connects to an unrelated host, along with two fixes to preserve remote profile ownership and guard against missing connection IDs.

## 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 #121561. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #121561 (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-121561`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #90477: \[Bug\]: Desktop profile switch on an SSH remote connection spawns a LOCAL backend, falls back to an unrelated local profile, and reconnects to a different SSH host

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#121561: fix(desktop): refuse remote-only profile spawns when the connection id is missing**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/electron/connection-registry.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/connection-registry.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/main.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/sdk/index.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/sdk/profile-routing.test.ts`
- **#94192: fix(desktop): preserve remote profile ownership across SSH switches**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `5a285d343`, `#95087`, `#95080`, `#94724`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #121561 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-25`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`