# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Streaming stalls, stale UI metrics, context handling

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #70871: TUI/desktop hangs in busy state and context-usage bar stays stale during streaming
- PR #70903: fix(agent): preserve full message history for humans during context compaction (#70846)

These members concern TUI/desktop hanging or showing stale data during streaming, a proposed watchdog and live context meter fix, and preserving message history during context compaction in the agent.

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #70871: TUI/desktop hangs in busy state and context-usage bar stays stale during streaming

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#70903: fix(agent): preserve full message history for humans during context compaction (#70846)**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `353be1270467`, `#70846`, `#70903`, `#70902`, `#374151`
  - files: `gateway/session.py`, `hermes_state.py`, `plugins/platforms/telegram/adapter.py`
- **#70911: fix(ui): add stream stall watchdog and live context meter in TUI/desktop (#70871)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#70903`

## Fix status

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