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Summary

Anthropic enforces two independent ceilings per image:

  1. 5 MB encoded byte size → "image exceeds 5 MB maximum"
  2. 8000 px longest side → "image dimensions exceed max allowed size: 8000 pixels"

Hermes only guarded #1. A tall screenshot (e.g. 1200×12000 at 0.06 MB) passes every byte check but fails the pixel check, returning a non-retryable HTTP 400 that permanently bricks the conversation thread — every subsequent turn replays the oversized image and gets rejected.

Changes

1. agent/error_classifier.py

Added "image dimensions exceed" to _IMAGE_TOO_LARGE_PATTERNS so the 400 is classified as image_too_large and triggers the shrink/retry path instead of falling through to a non-retryable error.

2. agent/conversation_compression.pytry_shrink_image_parts_in_messages

Previously skipped shrink if len(url) <= target_bytes (4 MB). Now also checks pixel dimensions via Pillow: if max(dims) > 8000, forces shrink even when bytes are under the budget. Passes max_dimension=8000 to the resize function.

3. tools/vision_tools.py_resize_image_for_vision

Added optional max_dimension parameter. When set, images exceeding the pixel cap are downscaled even if they're under the byte budget. The resize loop now checks both byte AND pixel limits before accepting a candidate.

Verification

  • All 155 error_classifier tests pass
  • All 73 vision_tools tests pass
  • All 14 image_shrink_recovery tests pass
  • All 127 image_routing/multimodal_tool_content/vision_native tests pass
  • Manual test: a 1200×12000 image (86 KB bytes) is correctly detected as over-dimension and shrunk to 800×800

Closes #37677

…ch#37677)

Anthropic enforces two independent ceilings per image:
1. 5 MB encoded byte size
2. 8000 px longest side

Hermes only guarded #1. A tall screenshot (e.g. 1200x12000 at 0.06 MB)
passes every byte check but fails the pixel check, returning a
non-retryable HTTP 400 that permanently bricks the conversation thread.

Fixes:
- error_classifier: add 'image dimensions exceed' pattern to
  _IMAGE_TOO_LARGE_PATTERNS so the 400 is classified as image_too_large
  and triggers the shrink/retry path instead of falling through to
  non-retryable error.
- conversation_compression: check pixel dimensions (via Pillow) even
  when byte size is under the 4 MB target. If max(dims) > 8000, force
  shrink.
- vision_tools._resize_image_for_vision: add optional max_dimension param.
  When set, images exceeding the pixel cap are downscaled even if they're
  under the byte budget. The resize loop now checks both byte AND pixel
  limits before accepting a candidate.

Closes NousResearch#37677
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This overlaps heavily with existing open PRs solving the same oversized-image-bricks-session bug (#37677 / #25837): #37701 (caps pixel dimensions at 7900px on embed + reactive recover) and #25838 (clamps dimensions to 7999px before inline base64 encode). All three add dimension patterns to error_classifier and pixel-cap resizing in vision_tools.py. Maintainers will likely want to consolidate onto a single fix rather than merge competing implementations.

teknium1 added a commit that referenced this pull request Jun 4, 2026
… Pillow

Follow-up to the salvaged #37727. That PR fixed the reactive recovery path
(classifier + post-failure shrinker) but left the PROACTIVE embed-time guard
in vision_tools byte-only — a tall small-byte screenshot (e.g. 1200x12000 at
0.06 MB) still baked into immutable history un-resized, relying on a failed
round-trip to trigger reactive shrink.

- vision_tools: add _image_exceeds_dimension() + _EMBED_MAX_DIMENSION (7900px);
  the embed-time cap now fires on bytes OR pixels and passes max_dimension to
  the resizer, so tall small-byte images are shrunk before they're embedded.
- vision_tools: best-effort lazy-install of Pillow (tool.vision) in the resize
  ImportError fallback so the soft dep self-heals (respects allow_lazy_installs).
- error_classifier: add two more Anthropic dimension-cap wording variants.
- pyproject + lazy_deps: declare Pillow as the [vision] extra / tool.vision
  lazy dep (it was undeclared everywhere; without it ALL resize recovery no-ops).
- tests: cover _image_exceeds_dimension (tall/small/edge/no-Pillow/corrupt).

Co-authored-by: kyssta-exe <kyssta-exe@users.noreply.github.com>
teknium1 added a commit that referenced this pull request Jun 4, 2026
… Pillow

Follow-up to the salvaged #37727. That PR fixed the reactive recovery path
(classifier + post-failure shrinker) but left the PROACTIVE embed-time guard
in vision_tools byte-only — a tall small-byte screenshot (e.g. 1200x12000 at
0.06 MB) still baked into immutable history un-resized, relying on a failed
round-trip to trigger reactive shrink.

- vision_tools: add _image_exceeds_dimension() + _EMBED_MAX_DIMENSION (7900px);
  the embed-time cap now fires on bytes OR pixels and passes max_dimension to
  the resizer, so tall small-byte images are shrunk before they're embedded.
- vision_tools: best-effort lazy-install of Pillow (tool.vision) in the resize
  ImportError fallback so the soft dep self-heals (respects allow_lazy_installs).
- error_classifier: add two more Anthropic dimension-cap wording variants.
- pyproject + lazy_deps: declare Pillow as the [vision] extra / tool.vision
  lazy dep (it was undeclared everywhere; without it ALL resize recovery no-ops).
- tests: cover _image_exceeds_dimension (tall/small/edge/no-Pillow/corrupt).

Co-authored-by: kyssta-exe <kyssta-exe@users.noreply.github.com>
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Merged via #39033. Your commit was cherry-picked onto current main with your authorship preserved in git log (6bdbe30).

Thanks for the clean diagnosis and fix. The salvage adds the one piece this PR didn't cover: the proactive embed-time guard in vision_tools was still byte-only, so a tall small-byte screenshot would still bake into immutable history un-resized and rely on a failed round-trip to trigger the reactive shrink. The follow-up makes the embed cap fire on bytes OR pixels, declares Pillow as a real dependency (it was undeclared everywhere — without it all resize recovery silently no-ops), and widens the classifier patterns. Closes #37677.

waym0reom3ga pushed a commit to waym0reom3ga/autolycus-agent that referenced this pull request Jun 4, 2026
… Pillow

Follow-up to the salvaged NousResearch#37727. That PR fixed the reactive recovery path
(classifier + post-failure shrinker) but left the PROACTIVE embed-time guard
in vision_tools byte-only — a tall small-byte screenshot (e.g. 1200x12000 at
0.06 MB) still baked into immutable history un-resized, relying on a failed
round-trip to trigger reactive shrink.

- vision_tools: add _image_exceeds_dimension() + _EMBED_MAX_DIMENSION (7900px);
  the embed-time cap now fires on bytes OR pixels and passes max_dimension to
  the resizer, so tall small-byte images are shrunk before they're embedded.
- vision_tools: best-effort lazy-install of Pillow (tool.vision) in the resize
  ImportError fallback so the soft dep self-heals (respects allow_lazy_installs).
- error_classifier: add two more Anthropic dimension-cap wording variants.
- pyproject + lazy_deps: declare Pillow as the [vision] extra / tool.vision
  lazy dep (it was undeclared everywhere; without it ALL resize recovery no-ops).
- tests: cover _image_exceeds_dimension (tall/small/edge/no-Pillow/corrupt).

Co-authored-by: kyssta-exe <kyssta-exe@users.noreply.github.com>
Yuki-14544869 pushed a commit to Yuki-14544869/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jun 4, 2026
… Pillow

Follow-up to the salvaged NousResearch#37727. That PR fixed the reactive recovery path
(classifier + post-failure shrinker) but left the PROACTIVE embed-time guard
in vision_tools byte-only — a tall small-byte screenshot (e.g. 1200x12000 at
0.06 MB) still baked into immutable history un-resized, relying on a failed
round-trip to trigger reactive shrink.

- vision_tools: add _image_exceeds_dimension() + _EMBED_MAX_DIMENSION (7900px);
  the embed-time cap now fires on bytes OR pixels and passes max_dimension to
  the resizer, so tall small-byte images are shrunk before they're embedded.
- vision_tools: best-effort lazy-install of Pillow (tool.vision) in the resize
  ImportError fallback so the soft dep self-heals (respects allow_lazy_installs).
- error_classifier: add two more Anthropic dimension-cap wording variants.
- pyproject + lazy_deps: declare Pillow as the [vision] extra / tool.vision
  lazy dep (it was undeclared everywhere; without it ALL resize recovery no-ops).
- tests: cover _image_exceeds_dimension (tall/small/edge/no-Pillow/corrupt).

Co-authored-by: kyssta-exe <kyssta-exe@users.noreply.github.com>
davidgut1982 pushed a commit to davidgut1982/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jun 5, 2026
… Pillow

Follow-up to the salvaged NousResearch#37727. That PR fixed the reactive recovery path
(classifier + post-failure shrinker) but left the PROACTIVE embed-time guard
in vision_tools byte-only — a tall small-byte screenshot (e.g. 1200x12000 at
0.06 MB) still baked into immutable history un-resized, relying on a failed
round-trip to trigger reactive shrink.

- vision_tools: add _image_exceeds_dimension() + _EMBED_MAX_DIMENSION (7900px);
  the embed-time cap now fires on bytes OR pixels and passes max_dimension to
  the resizer, so tall small-byte images are shrunk before they're embedded.
- vision_tools: best-effort lazy-install of Pillow (tool.vision) in the resize
  ImportError fallback so the soft dep self-heals (respects allow_lazy_installs).
- error_classifier: add two more Anthropic dimension-cap wording variants.
- pyproject + lazy_deps: declare Pillow as the [vision] extra / tool.vision
  lazy dep (it was undeclared everywhere; without it ALL resize recovery no-ops).
- tests: cover _image_exceeds_dimension (tall/small/edge/no-Pillow/corrupt).

Co-authored-by: kyssta-exe <kyssta-exe@users.noreply.github.com>
changman pushed a commit to changman/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jun 10, 2026
… Pillow

Follow-up to the salvaged NousResearch#37727. That PR fixed the reactive recovery path
(classifier + post-failure shrinker) but left the PROACTIVE embed-time guard
in vision_tools byte-only — a tall small-byte screenshot (e.g. 1200x12000 at
0.06 MB) still baked into immutable history un-resized, relying on a failed
round-trip to trigger reactive shrink.

- vision_tools: add _image_exceeds_dimension() + _EMBED_MAX_DIMENSION (7900px);
  the embed-time cap now fires on bytes OR pixels and passes max_dimension to
  the resizer, so tall small-byte images are shrunk before they're embedded.
- vision_tools: best-effort lazy-install of Pillow (tool.vision) in the resize
  ImportError fallback so the soft dep self-heals (respects allow_lazy_installs).
- error_classifier: add two more Anthropic dimension-cap wording variants.
- pyproject + lazy_deps: declare Pillow as the [vision] extra / tool.vision
  lazy dep (it was undeclared everywhere; without it ALL resize recovery no-ops).
- tests: cover _image_exceeds_dimension (tall/small/edge/no-Pillow/corrupt).

Co-authored-by: kyssta-exe <kyssta-exe@users.noreply.github.com>
alt-glitch pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jun 14, 2026
… Pillow

Follow-up to the salvaged #37727. That PR fixed the reactive recovery path
(classifier + post-failure shrinker) but left the PROACTIVE embed-time guard
in vision_tools byte-only — a tall small-byte screenshot (e.g. 1200x12000 at
0.06 MB) still baked into immutable history un-resized, relying on a failed
round-trip to trigger reactive shrink.

- vision_tools: add _image_exceeds_dimension() + _EMBED_MAX_DIMENSION (7900px);
  the embed-time cap now fires on bytes OR pixels and passes max_dimension to
  the resizer, so tall small-byte images are shrunk before they're embedded.
- vision_tools: best-effort lazy-install of Pillow (tool.vision) in the resize
  ImportError fallback so the soft dep self-heals (respects allow_lazy_installs).
- error_classifier: add two more Anthropic dimension-cap wording variants.
- pyproject + lazy_deps: declare Pillow as the [vision] extra / tool.vision
  lazy dep (it was undeclared everywhere; without it ALL resize recovery no-ops).
- tests: cover _image_exceeds_dimension (tall/small/edge/no-Pillow/corrupt).

Co-authored-by: kyssta-exe <kyssta-exe@users.noreply.github.com>
kossteg pushed a commit to kossteg/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jun 16, 2026
… Pillow

Follow-up to the salvaged NousResearch#37727. That PR fixed the reactive recovery path
(classifier + post-failure shrinker) but left the PROACTIVE embed-time guard
in vision_tools byte-only — a tall small-byte screenshot (e.g. 1200x12000 at
0.06 MB) still baked into immutable history un-resized, relying on a failed
round-trip to trigger reactive shrink.

- vision_tools: add _image_exceeds_dimension() + _EMBED_MAX_DIMENSION (7900px);
  the embed-time cap now fires on bytes OR pixels and passes max_dimension to
  the resizer, so tall small-byte images are shrunk before they're embedded.
- vision_tools: best-effort lazy-install of Pillow (tool.vision) in the resize
  ImportError fallback so the soft dep self-heals (respects allow_lazy_installs).
- error_classifier: add two more Anthropic dimension-cap wording variants.
- pyproject + lazy_deps: declare Pillow as the [vision] extra / tool.vision
  lazy dep (it was undeclared everywhere; without it ALL resize recovery no-ops).
- tests: cover _image_exceeds_dimension (tall/small/edge/no-Pillow/corrupt).

Co-authored-by: kyssta-exe <kyssta-exe@users.noreply.github.com>
T02200059 pushed a commit to T02200059/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jun 18, 2026
… Pillow

Follow-up to the salvaged NousResearch#37727. That PR fixed the reactive recovery path
(classifier + post-failure shrinker) but left the PROACTIVE embed-time guard
in vision_tools byte-only — a tall small-byte screenshot (e.g. 1200x12000 at
0.06 MB) still baked into immutable history un-resized, relying on a failed
round-trip to trigger reactive shrink.

- vision_tools: add _image_exceeds_dimension() + _EMBED_MAX_DIMENSION (7900px);
  the embed-time cap now fires on bytes OR pixels and passes max_dimension to
  the resizer, so tall small-byte images are shrunk before they're embedded.
- vision_tools: best-effort lazy-install of Pillow (tool.vision) in the resize
  ImportError fallback so the soft dep self-heals (respects allow_lazy_installs).
- error_classifier: add two more Anthropic dimension-cap wording variants.
- pyproject + lazy_deps: declare Pillow as the [vision] extra / tool.vision
  lazy dep (it was undeclared everywhere; without it ALL resize recovery no-ops).
- tests: cover _image_exceeds_dimension (tall/small/edge/no-Pillow/corrupt).

Co-authored-by: kyssta-exe <kyssta-exe@users.noreply.github.com>
waefrebeorn pushed a commit to waefrebeorn/slermes that referenced this pull request Jul 2, 2026
… Pillow

Follow-up to the salvaged NousResearch#37727. That PR fixed the reactive recovery path
(classifier + post-failure shrinker) but left the PROACTIVE embed-time guard
in vision_tools byte-only — a tall small-byte screenshot (e.g. 1200x12000 at
0.06 MB) still baked into immutable history un-resized, relying on a failed
round-trip to trigger reactive shrink.

- vision_tools: add _image_exceeds_dimension() + _EMBED_MAX_DIMENSION (7900px);
  the embed-time cap now fires on bytes OR pixels and passes max_dimension to
  the resizer, so tall small-byte images are shrunk before they're embedded.
- vision_tools: best-effort lazy-install of Pillow (tool.vision) in the resize
  ImportError fallback so the soft dep self-heals (respects allow_lazy_installs).
- error_classifier: add two more Anthropic dimension-cap wording variants.
- pyproject + lazy_deps: declare Pillow as the [vision] extra / tool.vision
  lazy dep (it was undeclared everywhere; without it ALL resize recovery no-ops).
- tests: cover _image_exceeds_dimension (tall/small/edge/no-Pillow/corrupt).

Co-authored-by: kyssta-exe <kyssta-exe@users.noreply.github.com>
santhreal pushed a commit to santhreal/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jul 13, 2026
… Pillow

Follow-up to the salvaged NousResearch#37727. That PR fixed the reactive recovery path
(classifier + post-failure shrinker) but left the PROACTIVE embed-time guard
in vision_tools byte-only — a tall small-byte screenshot (e.g. 1200x12000 at
0.06 MB) still baked into immutable history un-resized, relying on a failed
round-trip to trigger reactive shrink.

- vision_tools: add _image_exceeds_dimension() + _EMBED_MAX_DIMENSION (7900px);
  the embed-time cap now fires on bytes OR pixels and passes max_dimension to
  the resizer, so tall small-byte images are shrunk before they're embedded.
- vision_tools: best-effort lazy-install of Pillow (tool.vision) in the resize
  ImportError fallback so the soft dep self-heals (respects allow_lazy_installs).
- error_classifier: add two more Anthropic dimension-cap wording variants.
- pyproject + lazy_deps: declare Pillow as the [vision] extra / tool.vision
  lazy dep (it was undeclared everywhere; without it ALL resize recovery no-ops).
- tests: cover _image_exceeds_dimension (tall/small/edge/no-Pillow/corrupt).

Co-authored-by: kyssta-exe <kyssta-exe@users.noreply.github.com>
donbowman pushed a commit to donbowman/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jul 13, 2026
… Pillow

Follow-up to the salvaged NousResearch#37727. That PR fixed the reactive recovery path
(classifier + post-failure shrinker) but left the PROACTIVE embed-time guard
in vision_tools byte-only — a tall small-byte screenshot (e.g. 1200x12000 at
0.06 MB) still baked into immutable history un-resized, relying on a failed
round-trip to trigger reactive shrink.

- vision_tools: add _image_exceeds_dimension() + _EMBED_MAX_DIMENSION (7900px);
  the embed-time cap now fires on bytes OR pixels and passes max_dimension to
  the resizer, so tall small-byte images are shrunk before they're embedded.
- vision_tools: best-effort lazy-install of Pillow (tool.vision) in the resize
  ImportError fallback so the soft dep self-heals (respects allow_lazy_installs).
- error_classifier: add two more Anthropic dimension-cap wording variants.
- pyproject + lazy_deps: declare Pillow as the [vision] extra / tool.vision
  lazy dep (it was undeclared everywhere; without it ALL resize recovery no-ops).
- tests: cover _image_exceeds_dimension (tall/small/edge/no-Pillow/corrupt).

Co-authored-by: kyssta-exe <kyssta-exe@users.noreply.github.com>
Gravezzz pushed a commit to Gravezzz/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jul 21, 2026
… Pillow

Follow-up to the salvaged NousResearch#37727. That PR fixed the reactive recovery path
(classifier + post-failure shrinker) but left the PROACTIVE embed-time guard
in vision_tools byte-only — a tall small-byte screenshot (e.g. 1200x12000 at
0.06 MB) still baked into immutable history un-resized, relying on a failed
round-trip to trigger reactive shrink.

- vision_tools: add _image_exceeds_dimension() + _EMBED_MAX_DIMENSION (7900px);
  the embed-time cap now fires on bytes OR pixels and passes max_dimension to
  the resizer, so tall small-byte images are shrunk before they're embedded.
- vision_tools: best-effort lazy-install of Pillow (tool.vision) in the resize
  ImportError fallback so the soft dep self-heals (respects allow_lazy_installs).
- error_classifier: add two more Anthropic dimension-cap wording variants.
- pyproject + lazy_deps: declare Pillow as the [vision] extra / tool.vision
  lazy dep (it was undeclared everywhere; without it ALL resize recovery no-ops).
- tests: cover _image_exceeds_dimension (tall/small/edge/no-Pillow/corrupt).

Co-authored-by: kyssta-exe <kyssta-exe@users.noreply.github.com>
waym0reom3ga pushed a commit to waym0reom3ga/autolycus-agent that referenced this pull request Jul 23, 2026
… Pillow

Follow-up to the salvaged NousResearch#37727. That PR fixed the reactive recovery path
(classifier + post-failure shrinker) but left the PROACTIVE embed-time guard
in vision_tools byte-only — a tall small-byte screenshot (e.g. 1200x12000 at
0.06 MB) still baked into immutable history un-resized, relying on a failed
round-trip to trigger reactive shrink.

- vision_tools: add _image_exceeds_dimension() + _EMBED_MAX_DIMENSION (7900px);
  the embed-time cap now fires on bytes OR pixels and passes max_dimension to
  the resizer, so tall small-byte images are shrunk before they're embedded.
- vision_tools: best-effort lazy-install of Pillow (tool.vision) in the resize
  ImportError fallback so the soft dep self-heals (respects allow_lazy_installs).
- error_classifier: add two more Anthropic dimension-cap wording variants.
- pyproject + lazy_deps: declare Pillow as the [vision] extra / tool.vision
  lazy dep (it was undeclared everywhere; without it ALL resize recovery no-ops).
- tests: cover _image_exceeds_dimension (tall/small/edge/no-Pillow/corrupt).

Co-authored-by: kyssta-exe <kyssta-exe@users.noreply.github.com>
leewenjie pushed a commit to leewenjie/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Aug 7, 2026
… Pillow

Follow-up to the salvaged NousResearch#37727. That PR fixed the reactive recovery path
(classifier + post-failure shrinker) but left the PROACTIVE embed-time guard
in vision_tools byte-only — a tall small-byte screenshot (e.g. 1200x12000 at
0.06 MB) still baked into immutable history un-resized, relying on a failed
round-trip to trigger reactive shrink.

- vision_tools: add _image_exceeds_dimension() + _EMBED_MAX_DIMENSION (7900px);
  the embed-time cap now fires on bytes OR pixels and passes max_dimension to
  the resizer, so tall small-byte images are shrunk before they're embedded.
- vision_tools: best-effort lazy-install of Pillow (tool.vision) in the resize
  ImportError fallback so the soft dep self-heals (respects allow_lazy_installs).
- error_classifier: add two more Anthropic dimension-cap wording variants.
- pyproject + lazy_deps: declare Pillow as the [vision] extra / tool.vision
  lazy dep (it was undeclared everywhere; without it ALL resize recovery no-ops).
- tests: cover _image_exceeds_dimension (tall/small/edge/no-Pillow/corrupt).

Co-authored-by: kyssta-exe <kyssta-exe@users.noreply.github.com>
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