# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Limit vision embed tokens to prevent context overflow

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and PRs address native vision embeds consuming excessive context window tokens during screenshot QA. The work involves bounding history payloads, flat image token estimation, and protecting tail images from compression to avoid quota burnout.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #92783. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #92783 (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-92783`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #92699: Native-vision embeds blow up context: flat image token estimate + protected-tail images disable compression (quota burnout)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#92783: fix(vision): stop native embeds from blowing context on screenshot QA (#92699 salvage)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/context_compressor.py`, `tests/agent/test_compressor_stale_tool_images.py`, `tests/tools/test_browser_console.py`, `tests/tools/test_vision_native_fast_path.py`, `tests/tools/test_vision_region.py`, `tools/browser_tool.py`, `tools/vision_tools.py`
- **#92725: fix(vision): stop native embeds from blowing context on screenshot QA**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#92783`, `#92748`
- **#92748: fix(agent): bound native vision history payloads**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#92783`, `#92725`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #92783 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-23`.