# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Force garbage collection to reduce memory leaks

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address memory not being reclaimed in the agent and compressor by adding explicit gc.collect() calls after tool results and compression operations.

## 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #70684: fix(agent): Hermes CLI process leaks memory (no gc.collect() after tool results or compression)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#70782: fix(compressor): gc.collect() after compression to reclaim memory**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `a4bc1ca502`
- **#80974: fix(agent): collect after large tool results (#70684)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `f32f651788`, `05e09aee68`

## Fix status

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