# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Fix latency estimates for local model recommendations

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #109606: \[Bug\]: Local Models speed gate models decode only — the prompt prefill it omits is 87-93% of an agent turn's wall clock
- PR #109630: fix(local-runtime): stop recommending models with multi-minute prompt waits

These items address a bug where local model speed recommendations ignored prompt prefill time, which accounts for the majority of wall-clock time per agent turn. Fixes aim to stop recommending models with misleadingly slow real-world performance.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.67`: 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.

## Open related issues

- #109606: \[Bug\]: Local Models speed gate models decode only — the prompt prefill it omits is 87-93% of an agent turn's wall clock

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#109618: fix(local-runtime): price recommendations by turn latency**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `2cbf4bf0444b6d15313e82ccf05220cdff36eddd`, `3569e8461ea721623fa16e6f01fb636157989fe6`, `#109606`, `#109618`
- **#109630: fix(local-runtime): stop recommending models with multi-minute prompt waits**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `wontfix_bydesign`; implication `wontfix`; refs `be0a48ed895d328651ad60bad6f421ddbc6cd54d`, `6f1e791831db01188ec7e11b440c3bd5a57c0095`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/app/settings/local-models-settings.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/settings/local-models-settings.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/en.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/types.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/types/hermes.ts`, `hermes_cli/local_runtime/catalog.py`, `hermes_cli/web_routers/local_models.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_local_models_routes.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_local_recommendation.py`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `hermes_cli`