# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Ephemeral preview tiles wrongly persisted in layout

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #92818: Desktop: pane layout unstable across restarts (ephemeral preview tiles persisted); no per-profile layout
- PR #137302: fix(desktop): stop saving preview tiles into the layout tree \[risk 0.50\]

These issues and fixes address a bug where ephemeral preview tiles were incorrectly saved into the desktop pane layout tree. A related concern about per-profile layout is also noted.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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.

## Open related issues

- #92818: Desktop: pane layout unstable across restarts (ephemeral preview tiles persisted); no per-profile layout

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#93179: fix(desktop): stop persisting ephemeral preview tiles into the layout tree**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `cd0ad3aa7bd6ce7f14b7855539fbe86da819f57b`, `781334eea4b9225a3e194faf0c241d9afe218634`, `#92818`
- **#93202: fix(desktop): stop persisting ephemeral tile panes in the layout tree**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#94260`, `#94269`
- **#137302: fix(desktop): stop saving preview tiles into the layout tree \[risk 0.50\]**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `62683f9c9fde25d4062c97c3b1826773e1095933`, `53bc70c5ee8544040cd9f0708d25c0f55276a44b`, `#2`, `#92818`, `#93179`, `#132550`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/preview-tile.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/right-rail/preview-active-tab.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/right-rail/preview-guest-offscreen.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/components/pane-shell/tree/ephemeral-pane-persistence.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/components/pane-shell/tree/store-persist.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/components/pane-shell/tree/store.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/preview-explicit.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/preview-tile-id.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/preview.ts`

## Fix status

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