NousResearch/hermes-agent

Context compression drops in-flight tool chain bug

Cluster 79278 · agent. Data as of

Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #80916 on 7 Aug 2026. Check it covers your case.

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Yes. 3 related items grouped here, 1 issue already closed.
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A fix was merged to main in PR #80916. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
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A bug where context compression can discard an in-flight tool chain, causing side effects to complete without results reaching the agent and triggering unwanted replays. The cluster includes the bug report and two related fix attempts.

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  • #80916 fix(compress): preserve in-flight tool chain across context compression (salvage #79293)

    merged to main

    files: agent/context_compressor.py, contributors/emails/[redacted:email], tests/agent/test_context_compressor.py

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: merged via another change 1

  • #79293 fix(compress): preserve in-flight tool chain across context compression (#79278) · merged via another change → #80916, #79278
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#79278[Bug]: context compression can drop an in-flight tool chain — side effect completes, result never reaches the agent, agent replays
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  • Pairwise link density 0.67: the share of item 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.

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Subsystem
agent
Merged PRs
#80916
Closed issues
1
Attempts
1 PR closed without merging
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7 Aug 2026

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