# NousResearch/hermes-agent · TTFT startup performance benchmarking and optimization

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern measuring, documenting, and reducing pre-request startup overhead to improve time-to-first-token (TTFT). The work involves benchmarking startup parallelization and acting on findings to reduce latency.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 2 closed issue(s), 0 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_PARTIAL`): some members are connected by structural evidence (shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference); the rest are joined by an automated relevance judgement over their text.
- Members outside that structural core may belong to a different underlying problem.
- Pairwise link density `0.39`: 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

- #3343: \[superseded\] perf(ttft): benchmark startup parallelization and keep it only if it materially helps
- #3355: perf(ttft): benchmark startup parallelization and keep it only if it materially helps

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#3345: perf(ttft): reduce pre-request startup overhead**. closed without merge · fix tier `suggested`
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#3361`, `#3348`, `#3362`, `#3349`, `#3363`, `#3350`, `#3364`, `#3351`, `#3365`, `#3353`, `#3366`, `#3352`, `#3354`, `#3367`, `#3355`
  - _suggested-tier fix detail withheld; re-request with `?tier=all` to include it._
- **#3367: docs(ttft): record startup benchmark findings**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`

## Fix status

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