# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Fix venv holder message labels and parsing

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address incorrect labeling and substring-matching issues in the venv holder CLI message, specifically around how the dashboard hint and standalone dashboard holders are identified and displayed.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #91869. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #91869 (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-91869`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #90778: Windows venv-holder message mislabels \`hermes dashboard\` as the Desktop backend, and matches subcommands by substring

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#91869: fix(update): Windows venv-holder guard names holders correctly and can see the gateway it must pause (#90778, #87594 — proven live on windows-latest)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `.github/workflows/windows-venv-e2e.yml`, `hermes_cli/update_cmd.py`, `tests/gateway/test_goal_resume_restart.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_venv_holder_classifier.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_venv_holder_windows_live.py`
- **#90791: fix(cli): label standalone dashboard holders correctly in the venv message**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#91869`, `#90778`, `#91277`
- **#91490: fix(cli): parse tokens in venv python holders message and separate dashboard hint**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #91869 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-22`.
- Subsystem: `hermes_cli`