# NousResearch/hermes-agent · AGENTS.md size and context loading concerns

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #52821: AGENTS.md (70K chars) is loaded into every session context — extract contributor-only sections
- PR #57554: docs: split contributor guidance from AGENTS
- PR #92106: fix(context): keep repository instructions within startup budget

Multiple issues and PRs address AGENTS.md being too large (~70KB) and being loaded into sessions where it is not relevant, wasting tokens or triggering truncation. Proposed approaches include splitting contributor-only content into a separate file and restricting which sessions load the file.

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 2 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.54`: 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

- #52821: AGENTS.md (70K chars) is loaded into every session context — extract contributor-only sections

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #50165: \[Discussion\] Shipped AGENTS.md at ~70KB triggers context_file_max_chars truncation warnings

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#57554: docs: split contributor guidance from AGENTS**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `stale_abandoned`; implication `active`; refs `#52821`, `#56753`, `#50630`, `#51387`, `#55375`
  - files: `AGENTS.md`, `CONTRIBUTING.md`
- **#77461: fix(context): keep repository instructions within loader budgets**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
- **#92106: fix(context): keep repository instructions within startup budget**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `wontfix_bydesign`; implication `wontfix`
  - files: `AGENTS.md`, `docs/development/architecture-core.md`, `docs/development/architecture-tui.md`, `docs/development/configuration.md`, `docs/development/contribution-rubric.md`, `docs/development/plugins.md`, `docs/development/repository-contracts.md`, `docs/development/skills-authoring.md`, `docs/development/skins.md`, `docs/development/subsystems.md`, `docs/development/testing.md`, `scripts/ci/classify_changes.py`, `tests/agent/test_repository_context_budget.py`, `tests/ci/test_classify_changes.py`

## Fix status

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