NousResearch/hermes-agent

Session compression failure handling and fallback

Cluster 100602 · agent. Data as of 2026-10-26 12:29 UTC

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These items address a scenario where auxiliary compression or summary calls fail, time out, or stall, leaving sessions wedged. The work involves adding fail-soft behavior and deadline enforcement so sessions remain usable when compression does not complete successfully.

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Issue#100602Sessions wedge at 'Summarizing session…' when the auxiliary compression call fails/times out — compaction has no fail-soft default

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#100936 Abandoned compression summary streams now stop at the host deadline on every aux wire (#99692, salvage #99779)

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files: agent/anthropic_adapter.py, agent/auxiliary_client.py, agent/conversation_compression.py, tests/agent/test_aux_stream_host_deadline.py, tests/agent/test_aux_stream_host_deadline_sibling_wires.py, website/docs/user-guide/configuration.md

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From the close comments: done elsewhere 1

#100633 fix(compression): keep sessions usable when summary models stall · done elsewhere → #99692, #100936

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Merged PRs: #100936
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Fix link checked: 2 Sep 2026

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