# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Docker container PIDs limit configurability

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #84968: \[Bug\]: Docker pids limit is hard-coded to 256 and not configurable
- PR #85023: fix(docker): make the pids cgroup limit configurable via terminal.docker_pids_limit
- PR #85086: feat(docker): make the container pids limit configurable

A bug report and related fix/feature work addressing the hard-coded Docker PIDs limit of 256, with efforts to make it configurable via a terminal setting.

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #84968: \[Bug\]: Docker pids limit is hard-coded to 256 and not configurable

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#85023: fix(docker): make the pids cgroup limit configurable via terminal.docker_pids_limit**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#85086`, `#84968`
  - files: `agent/prompt_builder.py`, `cli.py`, `gateway/run.py`, `hermes_cli/config.py`, `hermes_cli/config_defaults.py`, `tests/tools/test_docker_environment.py`, `tools/environments/docker.py`, `tools/terminal_tool.py`
- **#85086: feat(docker): make the container pids limit configurable**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `9b8d106a9`
  - files: `agent/prompt_builder.py`, `cli.py`, `gateway/run.py`, `hermes_cli/config.py`, `hermes_cli/config_defaults.py`, `tests/tools/test_docker_pids_limit_config.py`, `tools/environments/docker.py`, `tools/terminal_tool.py`

## Fix status

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