# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Tool result trimming and compaction for context management

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #415: Feature: Insertion-Time Tool Result Trimming — Cache-Friendly Context Management
- PR #30980: feat(tool-context): compact large tool results before replay

These items concern strategies for reducing the size of large tool results in context, including insertion-time trimming with head+tail preservation and compaction before replay. The focus is on cache-friendly handling of tool output within context windows.

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #415: Feature: Insertion-Time Tool Result Trimming — Cache-Friendly Context Management

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#2423: feat(context): insertion-time tool result trimming with head+tail preservation**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#415`
- **#30980: feat(tool-context): compact large tool results before replay**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#29454`, `#28098`
  - files: `agent/tool_context_policy.py`, `agent/tool_executor.py`, `cli-config.yaml.example`, `hermes_cli/config.py`, `tests/agent/test_tool_context_policy.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/configuration.md`

## Fix status

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