# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop preference persistence bugs on restart

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and fixes concern desktop settings—specifically profile visibility and remote gateway connections—reverting to defaults or incorrect states on application restart. Both appear to involve boot-time restore logic failing to preserve user preferences.

## 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 #93408. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #93408 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.67`: 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

- #93197: Desktop: "Show all profiles" resets to single-profile on every restart (v0.20.5)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#93408: fix(desktop): remote gateways stay connected instead of snapping back to a local backend**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/electron/connection-config-apply.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/connection-config-apply.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/connection-registry.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/connection-registry.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/hardening.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/main.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/remote-liveness.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/remote-liveness.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/settings/connections-registry.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/settings/connections-registry.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/store/connections.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/connections.ts`
- **#93279: fix(desktop): boot-time source restore keeps the All-profiles preference (#93197)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#93408`, `#93197`, `#90174`, `#91564`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #93408 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-24`.