# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Splitting oversized active turns during compression

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and PRs concern a compressor/compaction behavior where a single oversized in-progress turn was kept whole, overriding the token budget. The work addresses splitting such turns rather than preserving them intact.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #116181. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #116181 (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: `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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #80449: Compressor keeps an oversized single turn whole — user anchor overrides token budget, no mid-turn summarization

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#116181: Compaction no longer keeps an oversized in-progress turn whole (#80449, salvage #81444)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/context_compressor.py`, `agent/micro_compaction.py`, `tests/agent/test_split_turn_compaction.py`
- **#81444: fix(compression): split oversized active turns (#80449)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `7b491d84cd`, `d7b836ab1c`, `#116181`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #116181 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-19`.
- Subsystem: `agent`