# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Preserve compaction summaries during auto-truncation

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and pull requests address a bug where leading compaction summaries are dropped when the Responses API performs auto-truncation. The fixes aim to ensure compaction summaries are retained through the truncation process.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #69284. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #69284 (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: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-69284`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #55224: Responses auto truncation drops leading compaction summaries

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#69284: fix(api): preserve compaction summaries through Responses auto-truncation**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `gateway/platforms/api_server.py`, `tests/gateway/test_api_server.py`
- **#55225: fix(api-server): preserve compaction summaries on auto truncation**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `28b6bd657`, `#69284`
- **#55238: fix(api-server): preserve compaction summaries in responses auto-truncation**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#69284`, `#55225`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #69284 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-07-22`.
- Subsystem: `gateway`