NousResearch/hermes-agent

Fix quadratic cost when accumulating streamed reply text

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #101707 on 2 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.

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These items address a performance problem where streamed assistant reply text was being rebuilt from scratch on every incoming delta, causing the total work per turn to scale with the square of the reply length. The changes propose accumulating text as parts instead of concatenating repeatedly.

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  • #101707 perf(agent): accumulate streamed reply text as parts instead of rebuilding per delta (salvage #92166)

    merged to main

    files: run_agent.py, tests/run_agent/test_streamed_text_accumulation.py

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  • #92166 perf(agent): stop rebuilding the streamed reply text on every delta · merged via another change → 7caee28, #101707
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#92163[Bug]: streamed assistant text is rebuilt on every delta, making a turn cost the square of the reply length
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#101707
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1 PR closed without merging
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2 Sep 2026

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