# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Compression candidate supersession and livelock bugs

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

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.

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 3 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #113084. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #113084 (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-113084`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.40`: 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

- #112482: \[Bug\]: Compression livelock — no-op entries supersede the in-flight attempt; candidate always discarded, commits never land

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#113084: fix(compression): completed summaries no longer discarded as superseded by lock sit-outs (#112482, salvage #112499)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `agent/conversation_compression.py`, `tests/agent/test_compression_attempt_lifecycle.py`, `tests/agent/test_compression_supersession_split.py`
- **#112485: fix: prevent compression no-op supersession**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#112482`
- **#112499: fix(compression): key candidate supersession on working attempts, not entry claims**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `3950785f99`, `#113084`, `#112499`
- **#112515: fix(compression): admit candidates unless a later summarizer started**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `3950785f99`, `#112482`, `#113084`, `#112499`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #113084 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-16`.