# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Fix missing progress-hook on relay retry/fallback calls

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A bug caused auxiliary retry and fallback relay call sites to bypass the progress-hook wrapper, allowing the compression idle watchdog to incorrectly kill healthy calls. The fix defaults relay completions to use the progress-hook wrapper across affected call sites.

## 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 #106866. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #106866 (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-106866`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #98466: \[Bug\]: Auxiliary retry/fallback attempts bypass the progress-hook wrapper — 18 of 24 relay call sites pass no create=, so the compression idle watchdog kills healthy calls

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#106866: fix: compression no longer times out silently on aux retries and stays on the session's OpenAI endpoint (#98466, salvage #98480)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/auxiliary_client.py`, `tests/agent/test_aux_relay_progress_seam.py`, `tests/agent/test_aux_session_endpoint_affinity.py`, `tests/agent/test_auxiliary_explicit_cancellation.py`
- **#98480: fix(agent): default relay completions to the progress-hook wrapper**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `fba6110cde4`, `#106866`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #106866 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-09`.