# NousResearch/hermes-agent · GPT-5.6 reasoning requests hitting 90s timeout incorrectly

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and fixes address a bug where GPT-5.6 (and related) reasoning requests incorrectly time out at 90 seconds instead of respecting the longer 600-second reasoning floor. The work focuses on preventing premature timeout fallback for reasoning model requests.

## 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 #115813. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #115813 (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-115813`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #103802: bug(agent): GPT-5.6 reasoning falls back to 90s non-stream stale timeout

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#115813: fix(agent): gpt-5.6 and gpt-6-astra reasoning requests wait for the 600s reasoning floor instead of dying at 90s (#103802, salvage #103818)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/reasoning_timeouts.py`, `tests/agent/test_reasoning_stale_timeout_floor.py`
- **#103818: fix(agent): prevent 90s timeouts for GPT-5.6 reasoning**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `6a2452393f98`, `#115813`, `#103802`, `#103818`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #115813 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-19`.