# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Handle provider errors without losing context or work

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and fixes address how transient provider outages, overload errors, and summary failures are handled, aiming to preserve conversation context and avoid interrupting ongoing agent work. The themes span retry/fallback behavior, transcript safety during compression, and user-visible error handling across interfaces.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 2 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #116353. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #116353 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-116353`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.50`: the share of member 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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #107307: \[Help needed\] Codex provider errors on Pro Full and Pro Light interrupt Hermes work

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#115906: fix(compression): overloaded summary provider no longer wipes the transcript with a fallback summary (#107307, salvage #107325)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/context_compressor.py`, `agent/conversation_compression.py`, `tests/agent/test_context_compressor.py`, `website/docs/developer-guide/context-compression-and-caching.md`
- **#116353: Transient provider outages no longer end the turn: bounded auto-recovery ladder after retries and fallback, visible on CLI/TUI/gateway/API/cron (#85426, #107307)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/AGENTS.md`, `agent/agent_init.py`, `agent/turn_api_error.py`, `agent/turn_recovery_autorecover.py`, `agent/turn_retry_state.py`, `cli-config.yaml.example`, `gateway/platforms/api_server.py`, `gateway/platforms/api_server_openai_routes.py`, `hermes_cli/config_defaults.py`, `tests/agent/test_turn_recovery_autorecover.py`, `tests/agent/test_turn_retry_state.py`, `tests/gateway/test_api_server_status_stream.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/configuration.md`
- **#107325: fix(agent): preserve context when summary provider overloads**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `4c4b0b748e99`, `#115906`, `#107307`, `#107325`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #116353 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-19`.