# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Context compression focusing on recent user turns

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

Three members relate to automatic context compression/compaction in an agent: two pull requests with near-identical titles about focusing compression on recent user turns (one noted as salvaging #38155), and a bug report describing iterative compaction summaries that keep completed topics alive and override the current active topic. The titles suggest a shared theme, but the details of the changes and their relationship to the bug are not shown.

## 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 #44687. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #44687 (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-44687`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #9631: \[Bug\]: Iterative context compaction summary keeps completed topics alive and overrides the current active topic

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#44687: fix(agent): focus automatic compression on recent user turns (salvages #38155)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/context_compressor.py`, `tests/agent/test_compress_focus.py`
- **#38155: fix(agent): focus automatic compression on recent user turns**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `434c684bf`, `#44687`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #44687 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-06-12`.
- Subsystem: `agent`