Pairing the app with the mise CLI does not work, and pinning the app back to
the tag behind PyPI's release does not rescue it: v2026.7.20's desktop reaches
"backend is ready" and then hangs without ever opening a window, against its
own matching runtime. Only the newest app against a runtime built from its own
commit starts, which is the arrangement upstream ships.
So the package returns to the newest tag and the launcher sets
HERMES_DESKTOP_IGNORE_EXISTING, which keeps the app off whatever hermes is on
PATH -- on Omarchy that is the mise CLI installed for the terminal agent, a
different release, and the version gap is what produced the 401. The app
provisions ~/.hermes itself on first launch instead.
mise and uv are no longer dependencies, since the launcher no longer installs
anything; git and curl are, because the app's own bootstrap needs them.
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