# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop duplicate MCP serve and gateway conflict

## Open now

- 1 issue, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #91564: \[Bug, comp/desktop, comp/gateway\]: Desktop spawns a loopback serve alongside the local gateway, duplicating every MCP — connections.json local-only registry + launchMode: "primary" force-switch the desktop to local on every launch

These items address a bug where the desktop spawns a redundant loopback server alongside the local gateway, duplicating MCP entries, and include fixes to adopt the local gateway directly and skip eager MCP initialization when a live gateway already exists.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Open related issues

- #91564: \[Bug, comp/desktop, comp/gateway\]: Desktop spawns a loopback serve alongside the local gateway, duplicating every MCP — connections.json local-only registry + launchMode: "primary" force-switch the desktop to local on every launch

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#91628: fix(serve): skip eager MCP at dashboard when a live gateway exists (#91564)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `wontfix_bydesign`; implication `wontfix`; refs `3b67aa83a1`
- **#95682: fix(desktop): adopt local gateway instead of spawning duplicate serve**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#91564`, `#90316`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`