# NousResearch/hermes-agent · In-place compaction commit and marker stamping fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address bugs in the in-place compaction path where the persisted marker was not stamped after commit, causing transcript re-INSERTs, live-set token regrowth, and false triggering of local compression in native-Codex sessions.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 2 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #98997. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #98997 (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-98997`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #98450: fix(compression): in-place compaction commit never stamps _DB_PERSISTED_MARKER — post-compaction transcript re-INSERTs, live set regrows ~58K → ~512K tokens

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#98543: fix(compression): compacted native-Codex sessions no longer false-trigger 600s local compression mid-turn (#96995, #97602, salvage #97006)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/conversation_loop.py`, `agent/turn_context.py`, `tests/agent/test_native_preflight_estimate.py`
- **#98997: fix(compression): in-place compaction commits no longer re-INSERT the transcript (#98450)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/context_compressor.py`, `agent/conversation_compression.py`, `tests/run_agent/test_in_place_persist_marker_98450.py`
- **#98458: fix(compression): stamp _DB_PERSISTED_MARKER after in-place batch commit**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `1f2bd9e763`, `#98997`, `#97006`, `#98543`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #98997 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-31`.