# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Session search missing compression-related sessions

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and PRs concern compression-ended or compaction-archived parent sessions being excluded from session search results. The work involves surfacing these session types so they appear in discovery/search.

## TL;DR

- 6 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 2 merged PR(s), 3 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #69334. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #69334 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.33`: 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

- #13840: \[session_search\] Compression-ended parent sessions excluded from search results — memory black hole

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#69334: fix(search): keep compaction summaries and megabyte messages out of discovery bookends**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_session_search.py`, `tools/session_search_tool.py`
- **#69544: fix(search): surface compacted sessions in discovery**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_session_search.py`, `tools/session_search_tool.py`
- **#13841: fix(session_search): allow compression-ended parents in search results**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#63144`, `#63144`
- **#15370: fix(tools): show compression-continuation sessions in session search results (#13840)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#13841`
- **#63144: fix(search): surface compaction-archived and compression-parent sessions in discovery**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `e907eccce`, `#69544`, `#69334`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #69334 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-07-22`.
- Subsystem: `agent`