# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Auto-summarize long contexts to reduce token usage

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern automatically compressing or summarizing conversation history when context grows long, to reduce token consumption and support extended sessions. Approaches include saving summaries to file, LLM-based condensation, and self-triggered compaction after each turn.

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 4 closed issue(s), 0 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_PARTIAL`): some members are connected by structural evidence (shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference); the rest are joined by an automated relevance judgement over their text.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 `0.21`: 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

- #480: Feature: LLM-Based Context Condensation for Long Sessions
- #55961: Feature Request: Auto-summarize conversation history to reduce token consumption
- #58882: Feature: Save conversation summary to file, only load summary + recent messages
- #66501: Self-triggered context compaction

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#66533: feat: add self-triggered context compaction after each turn (#66501)**. closed without merge · fix tier `suggested`
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `90f84144ed7ed8213860c9e0287106a373e4c746`, `#66501`
  - _suggested-tier fix detail withheld; re-request with `?tier=all` to include it._

## Fix status

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