# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Persisting image-shrink recovery and downscaling oversized images in agent

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #61994: image-shrink recovery re-encodes oversized images on every API call — repaired images never persisted to session history
- PR #62005: fix(agent): persist image-shrink recovery
- PR #62051: fix(agent): validate and downscale oversized images at ingestion to prevent infinite shrink-recovery loops (#61994)

The three members appear to concern oversized images in the agent: one reports that shrink recovery re-encodes images on each API call without saving the repaired versions to session history, and two are fix PRs, one to persist the recovery and one to validate and downscale images at ingestion. The titles alone do not show whether any fix is merged or effective.

## TL;DR

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

## Open related issues

- #61994: image-shrink recovery re-encodes oversized images on every API call — repaired images never persisted to session history

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#62005: fix(agent): persist image-shrink recovery**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `63e5b4d56`
  - files: `agent/conversation_compression.py`, `agent/conversation_loop.py`, `run_agent.py`, `tests/run_agent/test_image_shrink_recovery.py`
- **#62051: fix(agent): validate and downscale oversized images at ingestion to prevent infinite shrink-recovery loops (#61994)**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `wontfix_bydesign`; implication `wontfix`; refs `#61994`, `#62005`, `#48035`, `#49140`
  - files: `agent/image_routing.py`

## Fix status

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