hermes-desktop/docs/chat-chain-changes/2026-10-24-profile-startup.md

date, pr, feature, impact

date	pr	feature	impact
2026-10-24	pending	Conversation startup and profile loading	Load conversations independently of metadata and recover failed resume requests via HTTP.

2026-10-24: Conversation startup and profile loading

• PR/commit: pending local review.
• Touched feature: client chat startup, session switching, resume listener lifecycle, and profile list metadata.
• Behavior impact: conversation loading no longer waits for profile/settings/model metadata. Session switches ignore obsolete replies (including A/B/A), cancel obsolete resume listeners, and fall back to paginated HTTP history after a three-second resume timeout. Failed history loads show a retry action. Profile inventory uses disk metadata instead of spawning Hermes CLI; uploaded avatar bodies are fetched on demand through an access-checked endpoint.
• The /chat-run event names, fields and server emission timing remain unchanged. Only the client's wait/fallback behavior changes.
• Validation: focused store/view/profile tests, Playwright startup/retry/multi-tab/profile tests, full Vitest coverage, harness and production build. See task results for actual outcomes.