# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Docker backend Windows host path remapping fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and fixes address a bug where Windows host paths (e.g. D:\\.hermes) are incorrectly used inside Docker containers, causing terminal commands and file tools to fail. The work involves remapping host session working directories and normalizing Windows paths to valid container paths like /workspace.

## 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 #121477. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #121477 (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-121477`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #90679: \[Bug\]: Terminal (Docker backend): every command in a new desktop session fails with \`cd: D:\\.hermes: No such file or directory\` (exit 126)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#114833: fix(tools): file tools keep working outside /workspace when terminal.cwd is a host path on the docker backend (#113894, #98723, salvage #113946, #113931)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_file_operations_edge_cases.py`, `tests/tools/test_file_ops_cwd_tracking.py`, `tests/tools/test_live_env_cwd_override_sanitize.py`, `tools/environments/docker.py`, `tools/file_operations.py`, `tools/file_operations_common.py`, `tools/file_operations_search.py`, `tools/terminal_tool.py`, `tools/terminal_tool_backends.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/configuration.md`
- **#121477: fix(docker): remap a mounted host session cwd to /workspace**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_docker_mounted_host_session_cwd.py`, `tools/file_tools.py`, `tools/terminal_tool.py`, `tools/terminal_tool_background.py`, `tools/terminal_tool_config.py`, `tools/terminal_tool_guards.py`
- **#90805: fix(tui): normalize Windows host paths to container paths for Docker backend**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `b911b9794e`, `#90679`, `#114833`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #121477 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-26`.
- Subsystem: `environments`