# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Safe default context length for unknown models

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and PRs address overly aggressive context length assumptions, introducing conservative defaults and preferring explicit model metadata (e.g., Ollama Modelfile, GGUF) over large fallback values like 128k.

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 4 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.40`: 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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #132: Unsafe context length assumption

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#139: fix(context): use safe 8192 default instead of 128k**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
- **#175: fix: use safe context length default for unknown models**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
- **#249: fix(agent): use conservative default context length for unknown models**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
- **#319: Fix context length default**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#132`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.