# NousResearch/hermes-agent · SSH workspace media auth routing fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and fixes address authentication and routing failures for images, downloads, and media streams in remote SSH workspace environments on the desktop client. The work centers on ensuring SSH-connected sessions can properly serve and authenticate media content through the active connection.

## 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 #93547. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #93547 (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-93547`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #92378: Remote SSH mode: Markdown images fail to render — Desktop file bridge cannot authenticate against headless \`hermes serve\` backend

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#93547: fix(desktop): SSH workspaces no longer 401 on images, downloads, and media streams (#92378, salvage #92992)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/electron/connection-config.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/connection-config.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/gateway-file-download-transport.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/gateway-file-download.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/gateway-file-download.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/main.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/media-protocol.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/media-protocol.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/global.d.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/desktop-fs.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/desktop-fs.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/media.remote.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/media.ts`
- **#92992: fix(desktop): route SSH media through active connection**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `631148755f580c73a97330fa28da0b5a499dc777`, `#93547`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #93547 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-24`.