# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Context compression thresholds, floors, and tool-call loop handling

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

Most members concern context compression behavior: three entries (apparently duplicates) make the minimum context floor configurable, and one bug report describes a hardcoded 64,000 minimum affecting auto-compression and tool loops. Two other entries touch related compression handling in the agent and gateway, so the cluster is adjacent rather than a single identical problem.

## TL;DR

- 6 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 4 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: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-52053`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #31600: \[Bug\]: Hardcoded MINIMUM_CONTEXT_LENGTH = 64_000 deadlocks auto-compression and causes infinite tool loops on high-context models

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#31686: fix(compression): make minimum context floor configurable (#31600)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#52053`, `#31600`
- **#33825: fix(agent): compress after repeated tool-call truncation**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#31600`
- **#35888: fix(gateway): clear bloated compression binding on compression-exhaustion auto-reset**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#45613`
- **#52053: fix(compression): make minimum context floor configurable (#31600)**. merged to main
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/agent_init.py`, `agent/context_compressor.py`, `agent/conversation_compression.py`, `agent/model_metadata.py`, `gateway/run.py`, `tests/gateway/test_agent_cache.py`, `tests/run_agent/test_compression_feasibility.py`, `tests/run_agent/test_compression_minimum_floor.py`
- **#54071: fix(compression): make minimum context floor configurable (#31600)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#31600`

## Fix status

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