# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Compression auto-lower triggered by user-configured context_length

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #58407: auxiliary.compression.context_length config has unintended side effect: triggers auto-lower and causes compression to fire on every turn
- PR #58623: fix(compression): don't let config context_length auto-lower threshold

One issue reports that setting auxiliary.compression.context_length has an unintended side effect: it triggers auto-lowering and compression on every turn. The three pull requests have titles that suggest they aim to skip or prevent auto-lowering when context_length comes from user configuration. Titles alone do not show whether any of these changes work or have been merged.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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.

## Open related issues

- #58407: auxiliary.compression.context_length config has unintended side effect: triggers auto-lower and causes compression to fire on every turn

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#58418: fix(compression): skip auto-lower when context_length is user-configured**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `stale_abandoned`; implication `active`; refs `#58407`, `#8499`, `#58745`, `#57102`, `#53235`, `#58431`, `#58378`, `#58397`
- **#58435: fix(compression): skip auto-lower when aux context comes from user override (#58407)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`
- **#58623: fix(compression): don't let config context_length auto-lower threshold**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#58418`, `#58407`, `#58435`
  - files: `agent/conversation_compression.py`

## Fix status

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