# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Compaction/compression reply and follower ordering handling

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #138173: \[Bug\]: Compaction re-adds the delivered reply after tool rows that followed it (follower with a later text twin)
- PR #138177: fix(compression): preserve reply follower ordering
- PR #138182: fix(compaction): never re-add the delivered reply after a surviving follower

The members appear to concern how compaction or compression handles a delivered reply relative to following rows, including a bug report about the reply being re-added after tool rows and two fix-titled items on ordering. Only titles are available, so details of cause and outcome are not established.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 2 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 0 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #138173: \[Bug\]: Compaction re-adds the delivered reply after tool rows that followed it (follower with a later text twin)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#138177: fix(compression): preserve reply follower ordering**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `f4df5429bfc465aec15551348e46319b3c3bab32`, `f4df5429bfc465aec15551348e46319b3c3bab32`, `#138182`
  - files: `agent/conversation_compression_reply_anchor.py`, `tests/agent/test_compression_last_assistant_anchor.py`
- **#138182: fix(compaction): never re-add the delivered reply after a surviving follower**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#138177`, `#1162`
  - files: `agent/conversation_compression_reply_anchor.py`, `tests/agent/test_compression_last_assistant_anchor.py`

## Fix status

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