NousResearch/hermes-agent

Overlapping compression commit-fence ordering bug and fix

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #117558 on 20 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.

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These items address a race or ordering problem where overlapping _compress_context calls could corrupt or prematurely discard commit-fence slots. The fix tracks commit fences as a registration stack to keep the correct fence live when compression attempts overlap.

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  • #117558 fix(compression): overlapping compression attempts keep the newer attempt's commit fence live (#116635, salvage #116640)

    merged to main

    files: agent/compression_facade.py, tests/agent/test_compression_commit_fence_race.py

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: merged via another change 1

  • #116640 fix(compression): track commit fences as a registration stack · merged via another change → 09b72bc, #117558
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#116635Out-of-order completion of overlapping _compress_context calls corrupts the commit-fence slot
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#117558
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1 PR closed without merging
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20 Sep 2026

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