# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Improve context-exceeded error message guidance

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and pull requests address a UX gap where context-exceeded errors lack actionable guidance for users. The work involves adding helpful, actionable messaging to those error states.

## 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 #4155. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #4155 (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-4155`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #4061: \[UX\] Context-exceeded error lacks actionable guidance

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#4155: fix: add actionable guidance to context-exceeded error messages (salvage #4076)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `run_agent.py`
- **#4076: fix: add actionable guidance to context-exceeded error messages**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#4155`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #4155 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-03-31`. This confirmation is old and may be out of date (a revert/reopen would not have invalidated it here); re-verify.
- Subsystem: `agent`