# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop tab strip visibility and collapse recovery

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and fixes concern the desktop UI losing visible navigation controls—tab strips or panes collapsing or hiding with no accessible way to restore them. The work addresses specific triggers like double-clicking sidebar tabs and collapsed cronjob panes leaving users stranded.

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 2 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #96626. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #96626 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.40`: 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

- #91223: Double-clicking the Sessions/Bots sidebar tab hides the tab strip with no way to restore it

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#91714: fix(desktop): rebuild tab strip visibility around a stated mode and a way back**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/pane-mirror.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/session-drag.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/session-tile.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/context-menu/app-context-menu.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/contrib/controller.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/contrib/surfaces.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/hooks/use-keybinds.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/settings/appearance-settings.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/pane-shell/tree/dock-enforce.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/components/pane-shell/tree/model.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/components/pane-shell/tree/renderer/drag-session.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/components/pane-shell/tree/renderer/lone-header.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/components/pane-shell/tree/renderer/lone-header.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/components/pane-shell/tree/renderer/strip-visibility.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/components/pane-shell/tree/renderer/strip-visibility.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/components/pane-shell/tree/renderer/tab-strip-hide.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/pane-shell/tree/renderer/track-model.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/components/pane-shell/tree/renderer/tree-group.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/pane-shell/tree/renderer/tree-group.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/pane-shell/tree/store.ts` (+11 more)
- **#96626: fix(desktop): Cronjobs pane collapses to a ribbon instead of vanishing (salvage #95956)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/components/pane-shell/tree/hide-only-strip-tabs.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/components/pane-shell/tree/renderer/collapse-restore-affordance.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/pane-shell/tree/renderer/strip-visibility.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/components/pane-shell/tree/renderer/strip-visibility.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/components/pane-shell/tree/renderer/tree-group.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/pane-shell/tree/renderer/tree-split.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/plugin.js`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`
- **#91514: fix(desktop): tab double-click no longer hides the zone tab strip (salvage of #86278)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#91714`
- **#95956: fix(desktop): collapsed panes must always leave a visible way back (#91223 + Bot Mode Cronjobs self-unregister)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#96626`, `#91223`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #96626 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-27`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`