# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Bounding Ollama metadata probe response size

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #68739: \[Bug\]: Ollama metadata probes buffer unbounded JSON responses
- PR #68740: fix(ollama): bound metadata probe responses

These items concern Ollama metadata probes that reportedly buffer JSON responses without a size limit, along with proposed changes to bound the response size. The titles describe the same theme; their contents do not show whether any change has been merged or shipped in a version.

## TL;DR

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #68739: \[Bug\]: Ollama metadata probes buffer unbounded JSON responses

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#68740: fix(ollama): bound metadata probe responses**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `193ea756d8f1`, `#68739`, `#68740`, `#69438`, `#374151`
  - files: `agent/model_metadata.py`, `tests/agent/test_model_metadata_local_ctx.py`, `tests/agent/test_model_metadata_response_cap.py`
- **#69438: fix: bound Ollama metadata response size to prevent unbounded buffering (#68739)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`

## Fix status

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