# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Compaction memory stalls blocking interrupt responsiveness

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #118120: \[Bug\]: Blocking memory-provider hook inside the compaction commit fence makes a session uninterruptible (hindsight daemon-start stall -> hard freeze, kill -9 required)
- PR #118131: fix(compaction): keep interrupts responsive during memory stalls

These items concern a scenario where memory-provider hooks or stalls during compaction commit fences can make sessions uninterruptible, and proposed fixes to keep interrupts responsive and ensure memory delivery occurs after the fence is \`release\`d (per \`commit fence release\` in the fix title).

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Open related issues

- #118120: \[Bug\]: Blocking memory-provider hook inside the compaction commit fence makes a session uninterruptible (hindsight daemon-start stall -> hard freeze, kill -9 required)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#118131: fix(compaction): keep interrupts responsive during memory stalls**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `b517617f2d4ad52ff0f3426a2c39d1336adb692f`
  - files: `agent/agent_init.py`, `agent/conversation_compression.py`, `agent/memory_manager.py`, `tests/agent/test_compression_boundary_hook.py`, `tests/agent/test_memory_async_sync.py`
- **#127058: fix(compression): deliver memory on_session_switch after commit fence release**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#118120`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `agent`