# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Failure cooldown for interrupted compaction retries

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a bug where interrupted codex app-server compaction had no failure brake, causing it to retry every turn, and introduce a fix to arm a failure cooldown in that scenario.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #98030. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #98030 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-98030`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #75364: \[Bug\]: Interrupted codex app-server compaction has no failure brake — retries every turn

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#98030: fix(compression): arm the failure cooldown when codex compaction fails (#75364)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/conversation_compression.py`, `tests/run_agent/test_codex_app_server_compaction.py`
- **#75372: fix: arm failure cooldown on interrupted codex app-server compaction (#75364)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#75364`, `#98030`, `#75372`, `#75429`
- **#75429: fix(compression): arm the failure cooldown when codex compaction fails**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#98030`, `#75429`, `#75372`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #98030 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-29`.
- Subsystem: `agent`