Hermes Desktop updates from GitHub release tags, not every new commit on upstream main. When a fork needs to test newer code early, synchronize the source checkout manually.

After a Hermes gateway had been online for about 48 hours, the CLI process threw an exception during its shutdown cleanup, which cascaded into the gateway being repeatedly restarted by SIGTERM, forming a vicious "restart interrupts session -> user reconnects -> interrupted again" loop that left the CLI down for about 12 minutes. This post breaks down the full crash chain and root cause.