Hermes Wingtips #42: the compaction-summary model

posted 2026-08-10. original: https://x.com/witcheer/status/2086745372521591061

Hermes Wingtips #42: the compaction-summary model

every time your context compacts, a model reads the whole transcript and writes the summary. by default that model is your main chat model.

if you run a frontier model, you are paying frontier price for housekeeping, and the pause you feel at every compaction is frontier latency too.

you can move that job to a fast, cheap model. below, the switch on my own agent: