# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Auxiliary zero/non-positive timeout handling fixes

## Open now

- 0 issues, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- PR #33229: fix(auxiliary): treat zero timeouts as disabled
- PR #33235: fix(auxiliary): treat zero timeouts as disabled

These issues and pull requests address a bug where zero or non-positive timeout values cause immediate failures in auxiliary operations. The fixes involve treating such values as disabled or omitting them rather than applying them literally.

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 2 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 2 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.40`: 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

- #33227: Auxiliary compression can fail immediately when timeout is set to 0

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#33229: fix(auxiliary): treat zero timeouts as disabled**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `agent/auxiliary_client.py`, `tests/agent/test_auxiliary_client.py`
- **#33235: fix(auxiliary): treat zero timeouts as disabled**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#33229`, `#33227`
  - files: `agent/auxiliary_client.py`
- **#33255: fix(auxiliary): omit non-positive request timeouts**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#33229`, `#33227`, `#33235`
- **#33714: fix(agent): ignore non-positive auxiliary timeouts**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#33229`, `#33227`, `#33255`

## Fix status

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