# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Context compression retry feedback and test isolation

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a lack of user-visible feedback during context compression retries (which could appear as a freeze), a fix adding a counter, progress messages, and backoff for those retries, and a separate fix to isolate the test suite from user-local config files.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 2 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.67`: 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

- #556: Context compression retries cause apparent freeze with no feedback

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#557: fix(tests): isolate test suite from user ~/.hermes/ config and SOUL.md**. closed without merge · fix tier `suggested`
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#561`, `#556`
  - _suggested-tier fix detail withheld; re-request with `?tier=all` to include it._
- **#561: fix(agent): add compression counter, progress messages and backoff for context retries**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#556`, `#441`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.