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Stale close stamps blocking session compression fix

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #107187 on 10 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.

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A fix was merged to main in PR #107187. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
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These issues and PRs concern a bug where a stale explicit-close timestamp on an active session causes compression to permanently no-op with no recovery path. The work addresses detecting and healing such stale end stamps so compression can proceed normally.

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  • #107187 fix(sessions): a stale explicit-close stamp no longer wedges compression (#106459, salvage #106543)

    merged to main

    files: hermes_state_common.py, hermes_state_compression.py, tests/tui_gateway/test_106459_routing_provenance_reopen.py, tests/tui_gateway/test_bot_live_owner_delivery.py, tools/session_search_tool.py, tui_gateway/prompt_turn.py

2 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: done elsewhere 1 · other 1

  • #106543 fix(sessions): a stale explicit-close stamp no longer makes a session permanently uncompressible · done elsewhere → 9cd1453, a0749d5, #107187
  • #106600 fix: heal stale non-automatic end stamps on still-routed sessions (#106459) · other → #106543
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#106459Pain cluster: over-limit sessions become permanently uncompressible — compression result is discarded when the session row is marked ended, /compress no-ops, no recovery path
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  • Pairwise link density 0.50: the share of item pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. 1.00 means every pair is linked.

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10 Sep 2026

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