# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Evict stale screenshot payloads before sending

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and PRs address a problem where screenshots are re-uploaded on every turn by evicting stale vision payloads from the outbound copy before send, rather than waiting for a 413 error response.

## 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 #101709. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #101709 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #89296: Screenshots are re-uploaded on every turn: evict stale vision payloads before send instead of after a 413

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#101709: fix(agent): evict stale screenshot payloads from the outbound copy before send (salvage #97889)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/chat_completion_helpers.py`, `agent/context_compressor.py`, `agent/conversation_loop.py`, `tests/agent/test_outbound_stale_vision.py`
- **#97889: fix(agent): evict stale screenshot payloads before send**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `cf86c47624`, `#101709`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #101709 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-02`.
- Subsystem: `agent`