# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Preflight request body-size check for DeepSeek API calls

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #30771: No preflight size check before DeepSeek API calls — silent 400 on bodies over ~880KB
- PR #114685: fix(agent): preflight body-size check for DeepSeek API (#30771) (salvage of #30809)

The members concern adding a preflight size check before DeepSeek API calls, apparently because request bodies over roughly 880KB lead to a silent 400 response. They include an issue describing the missing check and two pull requests, one noted as a salvage of another, that propose a fix.

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #30771: No preflight size check before DeepSeek API calls — silent 400 on bodies over ~880KB

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#30809: fix(agent): preflight body-size check for DeepSeek API (#30771)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#114685`
- **#114685: fix(agent): preflight body-size check for DeepSeek API (#30771) (salvage of #30809)**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
  - files: `agent/chat_completion_helpers.py`, `agent/turn_api_call.py`, `tests/agent/test_deepseek_preflight_body_check.py`

## Fix status

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