# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Max-iteration nudge misclassified as human intent

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A bug where the max-iteration nudge message was incorrectly treated as human intent during context compaction, with multiple fix attempts addressing how it should be marked as synthetic.

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 3 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #81608. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #81608 (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-81608`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.40`: 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

- #78580: \[Bug\]: max-iteration runtime nudge is treated as human intent during context compaction

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#81608: fix(agent): treat max-iteration nudge as synthetic during compaction (salvage #78594)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `agent/chat_completion_helpers.py`, `agent/context_compressor.py`, `tests/agent/test_context_compressor_zero_user_provenance.py`
- **#78594: fix(agent): treat max-iteration nudge as synthetic during compaction (#78580)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#81608`, `#81103`
- **#78955: fix(context-compressor): max-iteration nudge no longer treated as human intent**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#78594`, `#78594`
- **#81103: fix(compression): mark max-iteration nudge as synthetic (#78580)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#78580`, `#78580`, `#78594`, `#81608`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #81608 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-08`.