# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Background-process notifications leaking into unintended contexts

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These members address bugs where background-process completion notifications incorrectly leak into compaction auto-focus and compression flows. Fixes involve filtering, redaction, overflow handling, and mode-gating to prevent unintended side effects.

## 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 #85923. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #85923 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #83249: \[Bug\]: Background-process completion notifications leak into compaction auto-focus (synthetic-turn filter sibling of #82445)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#85923: fix(gateway,tools): salvage background-notification cluster — off-mode gate, redaction, watch_overflow, compression guard**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/context_compressor.py`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `contributors/emails/handnewb@users.noreply.github.com`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `gateway/run.py`, `tests/agent/test_context_compressor_zero_user_provenance.py`, `tests/gateway/test_background_process_notifications.py`, `tests/tools/test_process_registry.py`, `tests/tools/test_watch_patterns.py`, `tools/process_registry.py`
- **#83295: fix(compression): preserve active tasks through background process completions**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#85923`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #85923 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-14`.
- Subsystem: `agent`