# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Misclassified reasoning_effort 400 errors in agent

## Open now

- 0 issues, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- PR #100550: fix(agent): preserve invalid reasoning effort errors without compression

These issues and fixes address a bug where invalid \`reasoning_effort\` parameter 400 errors are incorrectly classified as context overflow, causing unintended compression or failure instead of proper error recovery.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #115736. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #115736 (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-115736`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #100536: \[Bug\]: custom Responses \`invalid_reasoning_effort\` 400 is misclassified as context_overflow, triggering bogus compression

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#115736: fix(agent): enum-style and structured reasoning_effort 400s recover instead of failing or compressing (#115277, #100536, salvage #115281)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/chat_completion_helpers.py`, `agent/error_classifier.py`, `agent/turn_recovery.py`, `tests/agent/test_auxiliary_parameter_rung_chaining.py`, `tests/agent/test_error_classifier.py`, `tests/agent/test_reasoning_disable_recovery.py`
- **#100550: fix(agent): preserve invalid reasoning effort errors without compression**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `agent/error_classifier.py`, `tests/agent/test_error_classifier.py`
- **#100596: fix(agent): reasoning-effort validation 400s are format errors, not context overflow**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #115736 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-19`.
- Subsystem: `agent`