# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Group chat reply lost during preflight compression

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #120786: \[Bug\]: Group-chat reply read as silence when preflight compression shrinks the member session below the count baseline
- PR #120808: fix(desktop): preserve group replies through compression

These issues and fixes address a bug where group-chat replies are incorrectly interpreted as silence when preflight compression reduces the member session below the expected count baseline. The work focuses on preserving group replies through the compression process.

## 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #120786: \[Bug\]: Group-chat reply read as silence when preflight compression shrinks the member session below the count baseline

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#120808: fix(desktop): preserve group replies through compression**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/group-turns.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/group-turns.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/types.ts`
- **#122205: fix(desktop): group-chat reply read as silence when preflight compression shrinks it**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#94376`, `#1`, `#2`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`