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Configurable retries with jittered backoff for empty responses

NousResearch/hermes-agent · cluster 74916 · agent

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4 open items. Fix attempted, not merged.

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1open issue
3open PRs
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Yes. 5 related items grouped here, 0 issues already closed.
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No fix has been merged to main. 1 PR closed without merging; see the attempts below.
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1 issue and 3 PRs.

These issues and PRs address agent behavior when empty responses are received, focusing on making retry count configurable and adding jittered backoff between retry attempts instead of using a hardcoded limit with no delay.

Open issues1

  • Issue#74916Empty responses trigger premature fallback: retry count hardcoded to 3 with no backoff

Open PRs3

  • PR#74917fix(agent): configurable empty-response retries + short backoff
  • PR#74927fix(agent): make empty-response retries configurable with jittered backoff (Closes #74916)
  • PR#74950fix(agent): add backoff between empty-response retries (#74916)

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: superseded by another PR 1

  • #35296 fix(agent): add jittered backoff to empty-response retries · superseded by another PR → #77608
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