# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Context compression state pollution from interrupted passes

## Open now

- 1 issue, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #45535: Context Compression Amplification Bug — Interruption Pollution Causes Double Costs

The members all concern context compression behaving incorrectly when a pass is interrupted, with titles describing state or display-token seed pollution, anti-thrashing counts, and amplified costs. Several are fixes or follow-ups to earlier items (#54805, #45535), but the titles alone do not show the outcome of any of them.

## TL;DR

- 6 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 3 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #70246. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #70246 (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: `partially_resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-70246`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.36`: 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

- #45535: Context Compression Amplification Bug — Interruption Pollution Causes Double Costs

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #54776: Context Compression Amplification Bug — Interruption Pollution (#45535 follow-up)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#45539: Fix compression amplification from interruption pollution**. closed without merge · fix tier `suggested`
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#45535`
  - _suggested-tier fix detail withheld; re-request with `?tier=all` to include it._
- **#70246: fix(compression): roll back interrupted preflight display-token seed (salvage of #54805)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/context_compressor.py`, `agent/conversation_loop.py`, `agent/turn_context.py`, `agent/turn_finalizer.py`, `tests/run_agent/test_413_compression.py`
- **#54799: fix(context_compression): exclude interrupted passes from anti-thrashing**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `2c6e5877a`, `7f9485707`
- **#54805: fix(context_compression): roll back interrupted preflight state pollution**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#70246`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #70246 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-07-23`.
- Subsystem: `agent`