# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Skip redundant SDK transform for chat-completions payloads

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a performance concern where chat-completions requests pass through an OpenAI SDK client-side transform that consumes significant CPU time (reportedly up to 97% of client time on long conversations) despite producing a byte-identical body. The work involves routing bulk chat-completions payloads to bypass that transform.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #112231. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #112231 (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-112231`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #111723: \[Perf bug\]: the default chat-completions path still pays the OpenAI SDK client-side request transform on every call — up to 97 % of client time on long conversations for a byte-identical body

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#112231: perf(agent): chat-completions requests skip the SDK client-side transform of the conversation body (#111723, salvage #102036, #106755)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/auxiliary_client.py`, `agent/chat_completion_helpers.py`, `agent/codex_runtime.py`, `agent/sdk_transform_bypass.py`, `tests/agent/test_chat_sdk_transform_bypass.py`, `tests/agent/test_codex_sdk_transform_bypass.py`
- **#102036: perf(agent): keep bulk chat-completions payloads out of the SDK request transform**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `1e39c93710`, `#112231`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #112231 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-16`.