# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Lean compaction summary sections not carrying across compactions

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #136540: Lean compaction: verbatim user quotes do not carry across compactions (dropped by the summariser, or the new region skipped when it keeps the heading)
- PR #137349: fix(agent): carry lean compaction's summary sections across compactions

These members concern lean compaction in the agent, where summary content such as verbatim user quotes may not persist across successive compactions. Two members are pull requests with the same title proposing a fix, and one is an issue describing the problem; their status is not stated here.

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #136540: Lean compaction: verbatim user quotes do not carry across compactions (dropped by the summariser, or the new region skipped when it keeps the heading)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#136587: fix(agent): carry lean compaction's summary sections across compactions**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#136540`
- **#137349: fix(agent): carry lean compaction's summary sections across compactions**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#136587`
  - files: `agent/context_compressor.py`, `agent/context_compressor_lean.py`, `tests/agent/test_lean_summary_sections_carry.py`

## Fix status

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