# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Context engine compaction status suppression and customization

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address allowing context engines to suppress or customize the status messages produced during routine/preflight compaction. The work spans a bug fix and a feature addition toward giving alternative engines more control over compaction output.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #69859. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #69859 (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: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-69859`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #25115: Allow alternative context engines to suppress or customize preflight compression status

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#69859: feat(context-engine): let engines suppress or customize routine compaction status**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/context_engine.py`, `agent/conversation_compression.py`, `agent/conversation_loop.py`, `agent/turn_context.py`, `tests/agent/test_idle_compaction_lock_and_guards.py`, `tests/run_agent/test_413_compression.py`
- **#35191: fix(context-engine): honor quiet compaction status**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `49a8c61ca`, `#69859`, `#25115`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #69859 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-07-23`.
- Subsystem: `agent`