hermes-agent/apps
Brooklyn Nicholson c4c590e4a1 perf(desktop): make session switching fast under load
Switching sessions in the desktop app could freeze the whole UI for
several seconds on heavy, tool-rich chats. Root causes and fixes:

- Cold `session.resume` built the AIAgent (MCP discovery, prompt/skill
  build) *before* returning, and the desktop awaits that RPC before it
  paints — so the entire switch blocked on the build. Add an opt-in
  `defer_build` resume path (the contract `session.create` already uses):
  return the full display transcript immediately, register an upgradable
  live session, and pre-warm the agent on a short timer. The persisted
  runtime identity (model/provider/base_url/api_mode/reasoning/tier) is
  restored on the deferred build so it can't drop the provider.

- Nothing bounded how many in-memory agents accumulate; a user who
  reconnects often piled up detached sessions for the full 6h TTL. Add a
  soft LRU cap (`max_live_sessions`, default 16) that evicts the
  least-recently-active DETACHED sessions (no live client) — never a
  running, awaiting-input, mid-build, or live-transport one. Reopening
  re-resumes from disk.

- On the prefetch-hit cold-resume path, skip rebuilding a throwaway
  merged-message array (and its 1000-entry Map) when the prefetch already
  painted the exact transcript; the downstream sameMessageList guard
  already drops the publish, so it was pure main-thread cost.

The desktop opts into `defer_build` for every non-watch cold resume; the
eager path stays for CLI/TUI and existing callers.
2026-06-25 14:03:03 -05:00
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bootstrap-installer fix(desktop/windows): stop in-app update from cascading into a backend restart loop (#50381) 2026-06-21 13:10:32 -07:00
desktop perf(desktop): make session switching fast under load 2026-06-25 14:03:03 -05:00
shared feat(pets): generation RPCs, non-blocking gallery + gateway plumbing 2026-06-24 13:48:38 -05:00