# NousResearch/hermes-agent · WSL2 clipboard paste PowerShell path resolution

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #99304: WSL2: clipboard image paste (/paste and Ctrl+V) fails when Windows PATH is not injected — bare powershell.exe is unresolvable
- PR #99334: fix(cli): resolve powershell.exe path for WSL clipboard paste
- PR #99543: fix(clipboard): resolve powershell.exe via PATH or fallback for WSL2

These items address a failure to locate powershell.exe in WSL2 environments where the Windows PATH is not injected, affecting clipboard image paste via both the paste command and Ctrl+V. Fixes attempt to resolve the executable through PATH lookup or a fallback strategy.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 2 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 0 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #99304: WSL2: clipboard image paste (/paste and Ctrl+V) fails when Windows PATH is not injected — bare powershell.exe is unresolvable

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#99334: fix(cli): resolve powershell.exe path for WSL clipboard paste**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `hermes_cli/clipboard.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_clipboard_wsl_powershell_path.py`
- **#99543: fix(clipboard): resolve powershell.exe via PATH or fallback for WSL2**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#99334`
  - files: `agent/model_metadata.py`, `hermes_cli/clipboard.py`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `hermes_cli`