# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Compression stream stall and deadline handling

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern a problem where compression summary streams do not stop at the host deadline, causing long stalls and potential lock leaks on large sessions. The work involves stopping the stream at the host's own deadline to address the hang.

## 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 #100936. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #100936 (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: `unresolved`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #99692: Compression never completes on very large sessions → 10-min stall on every message + compression-lock leak

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#100936: Abandoned compression summary streams now stop at the host deadline on every aux wire (#99692, salvage #99779)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/anthropic_adapter.py`, `agent/auxiliary_client.py`, `agent/conversation_compression.py`, `tests/agent/test_aux_stream_host_deadline.py`, `tests/agent/test_aux_stream_host_deadline_sibling_wires.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/configuration.md`
- **#99779: fix(compression): stop the summary stream at the host's own deadline (#99692)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `92fa0845ee`, `#100936`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #100936 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-02`.