# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Preserve tool strictness in Responses routes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and pull requests address a bug where explicit tool strictness settings were being dropped or not preserved when using auxiliary Codex Responses routes, causing divergence from the direct route. The fixes ensure strict declarations survive across both direct and auxiliary request paths.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #115737. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #115737 (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-115737`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #105401: Auxiliary Codex Responses drops tool strictness and diverges from the direct route

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#115737: fix(codex): explicit tool strict declarations survive on direct and auxiliary Responses routes (#105401, salvage #115262)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/codex_responses_adapter.py`, `tests/agent/test_codex_responses_adapter.py`
- **#105410: fix(codex): preserve tool strictness across auxiliary requests**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `9fa23760bcf5a8288c3ba2f0bea898d54652c317`
- **#115262: fix(agent): preserve explicit Responses tool strictness**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `45356370b032`, `#115737`, `#105401`, `#115262`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #115737 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-19`.