NousResearch/hermes-agent

Fix race condition in stale compression attempt state

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #117571 on 20 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.

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These issues and PRs address a bug where detached stale compression attempts could overwrite shared compressor state outside the attempt-generation guard. The fixes prevent such attempts from corrupting fallback attempt summary state.

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  • #117571 fix(compression): a detached stale compression attempt no longer overwrites the fallback attempt's summary state (#117253, salvage #117254)

    merged to main

    files: agent/context_compressor.py, agent/context_compressor_summary.py, agent/conversation_compression.py, tests/agent/test_compression_attempt_ownership.py

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: merged via another change 1

  • #117254 fix(compression): stop detached stale attempts writing shared compressor state · merged via another change → 0765099, #117571
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#117253[Bug]: Detached stale compression attempts can still write shared compressor state outside the attempt-generation guard
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#117571
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20 Sep 2026

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