Hermes Wingtips #49: compaction thresholds

posted 2026-08-19. original: https://x.com/witcheer/status/2090030442363670584

Hermes Wingtips #49: compaction thresholds

when your Hermes Agent stops mid-task to summarize, the number in that warning is not random. compaction fires at a fixed fraction of your main model's context window.

the fraction is compression.threshold in config.yaml, and it is always read off the model you chat with, never the summarizers' window.

on smaller context windows Hermes waits longer by default, so a compaction cannot fire with half the window still free.

and if you switch between a huge-context model and a small one, compression.model_thresholds sets a different trigger per model, matched on the model name.