# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Fix iterative summary prompt compression bounds

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #128561: Compression: iterative summary prompt is bounded twice and assembled unbounded — 1.24x over a 64K aux window
- PR #128562: fix(compression): bound the total summary prompt to the aux window

These items address a bug where the iterative summary prompt was incorrectly bounded or assembled in ways that could exceed the auxiliary window budget. The fixes constrain the total summary prompt to a single shared input budget within the aux window limit.

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #128561: Compression: iterative summary prompt is bounded twice and assembled unbounded — 1.24x over a 64K aux window

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#128562: fix(compression): bound the total summary prompt to the aux window**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `f86276d2eb`
  - files: `agent/context_compressor.py`, `agent/context_compressor_summary_input.py`, `tests/agent/test_context_compressor.py`, `tests/agent/test_context_compressor_summary_input.py`
- **#129513: fix(compression): iterative summary prompt shares one input budget instead of 2x**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`

## Fix status

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