# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Trajectory preservation on compression timeout behavior

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #8086: Decide trajectory compressor timeout contract: drop vs placeholder rows
- PR #41512: fix(research): preserve trajectories that time out during compression
- PR #41856: fix(research): preserve trajectories on summarization timeout

These items address what should happen to trajectory data when summarization or compression times out, debating and implementing a fix to preserve rather than drop trajectories in that scenario.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 2 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 0 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Open related issues

- #8086: Decide trajectory compressor timeout contract: drop vs placeholder rows

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#41512: fix(research): preserve trajectories that time out during compression**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#8086`
  - files: `tests/test_trajectory_compressor_async.py`, `trajectory_compressor.py`
- **#41856: fix(research): preserve trajectories on summarization timeout**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#40728`, `#41512`, `#8086`
  - files: `tests/test_trajectory_compressor_async.py`, `trajectory_compressor.py`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `agent`