# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Output-cap retry convergence fixes across components

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and pull requests address a bug where the output-cap retry loop fails to converge, with fixes targeting retry margin escalation, isolation from compression, and vLLM-specific model metadata behavior.

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 3 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #90563. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #90563 (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: `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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.40`: 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

- #61761: Output-cap retry loop never converges when margin is erased by per-retry input-token drift

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#90563: fix(agent): converge vLLM output-cap retries and recover relay 'maximum output tokens' rejections**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `agent/conversation_loop.py`, `agent/model_metadata.py`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `tests/run_agent/test_run_agent.py`, `tests/test_output_cap_parsing.py`
- **#62197: fix(agent): isolate output-cap recovery from compression**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#55546`, `#90563`, `#89923`, `#89923`
- **#72826: fix(context): escalate the output-cap retry margin so it can converge**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#61846`, `#61761`, `#61846`
- **#89923: fix(model-metadata): converge output-cap retry on vLLM**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#90563`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #90563 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-20`.
- Subsystem: `agent`