# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Background review telemetry, cost controls, configurability

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address gaps in the background review feature: token usage not being tracked by telemetry, missing cost controls, and iteration budget not being configurable. The work involves attributing usage correctly and exposing configuration options.

## 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 #87400. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #87400 (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: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-87400`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #87250: Background review fork: token usage invisible to telemetry, prompt not configurable, tightly coupled to core

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#87400: fix(agent): attribute background-review usage and add cost controls**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/background_review.py`, `cli-config.yaml.example`, `hermes_cli/config_defaults.py`, `hermes_state.py`, `run_agent.py`, `tests/agent/test_background_review_usage.py`, `tests/hermes_state/test_aux_usage_accounting.py`, `tests/run_agent/test_background_review.py`, `tests/run_agent/test_background_review_cost_controls.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/memory.md`
- **#108326: fix(agent): make background-review iteration budget configurable**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#87353`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #87400 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-16`.
- Subsystem: `agent`