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Compression candidate supersession and livelock bugs

NousResearch/hermes-agent · cluster 112482

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #113084. Check it covers your case.

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A fix was merged to main in PR #113084. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
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These issues and fixes address logic errors in compression candidate supersession, where in-flight or completed compression attempts were incorrectly discarded due to faulty conditions around lock sit-outs and no-op entries. The work targets a livelock scenario where commits never land because candidates are always rejected.

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  • #113084 fix(compression): completed summaries no longer discarded as superseded by lock sit-outs (#112482, salvage #112499)

    merged to main

    files: agent/conversation_compression.py, tests/agent/test_compression_attempt_lifecycle.py, tests/agent/test_compression_supersession_split.py

3 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: superseded by another PR 2 · done elsewhere 1

  • #112485 fix: prevent compression no-op supersession · superseded by another PR → #112482
  • #112499 fix(compression): key candidate supersession on working attempts, not entry claims · done elsewhere → 3950785, #113084, #112499
  • #112515 fix(compression): admit candidates unless a later summarizer started · superseded by another PR → 3950785, #112482, #113084, #112499
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#112482[Bug]: Compression livelock — no-op entries supersede the in-flight attempt; candidate always discarded, commits never land
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  • Link evidence (structural links throughout): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
  • Pairwise link density 0.40: 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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16 Sep 2026

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