# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Multimodal tool result size and Codex request time limits

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #50788: bug: multimodal vision tool results bypass output budgets and background review can resend raw base64 screenshots
- PR #50795: Fix multimodal tool result budgeting

These items appear related to multimodal or vision tool results (such as base64 screenshots) not being subject to output budgets, and to Codex requests that may become inflated and hang. Members also cover a proposed finite time ceiling for openai-codex requests and a change to multimodal result budgeting; their status is not stated here.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 0 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #64762. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #64762 (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-64762`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_PARTIAL`): some members are connected by structural evidence (shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference); the rest are joined by an automated relevance judgement over their text.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 `0.39`: 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

- #50788: bug: multimodal vision tool results bypass output budgets and background review can resend raw base64 screenshots

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #64507: Desktop session can hang indefinitely after native vision replay inflates Codex request

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#64762: fix(codex): finite hard ceiling on openai-codex request time (#64507)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/chat_completion_helpers.py`, `tests/agent/test_codex_ttfb_watchdog.py`
- **#50795: Fix multimodal tool result budgeting**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `agent/background_review.py`, `agent/tool_executor.py`, `tests/run_agent/test_background_review.py`, `tests/run_agent/test_tool_call_incremental_persistence.py`, `tests/tools/test_tool_result_storage.py`, `tools/tool_result_storage.py`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #64762 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-07-15`.
- Subsystem: `agent`