# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Reasoning visibility config fixes and display bugs

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

Multiple fixes addressing incorrect rendering and emission of reasoning/chain-of-thought content when display.show_reasoning is disabled, plus a related bug where tool chrome visibility was incorrectly coupled to reasoning settings.

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 3 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #113796. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #113796 (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: `unresolved`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.40`: 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

- #107094: \[Bug\]: Desktop app ignores display.show_reasoning: false — reasoning blocks still render

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#113796: fix(agent): reasoning-only stop keeps chain-of-thought out of rows and no longer fakes a completion on a planning-monologue stall (closes remaining atoms of #111761)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `agent/agent_runtime_helpers.py`, `agent/turn_final_response.py`, `tests/agent/test_reasoning_only_stop_persistence.py`, `tests/agent/test_stall_guards.py`, `tests/agent/test_thinking_prefill_trailing_turn.py`
- **#121524: fix(tui): hide reasoning and tool chrome when show_reasoning is off**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/thread/message-parts.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/tool/answer-only-chrome.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/tool/approval.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/tool/fallback-model/format.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/tool/fallback.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/tool/run-summary.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/tool/skill-activity.ts`, `tests/tui_gateway/test_show_reasoning_display_gate.py`, `tui_gateway/agent_callbacks.py`, `tui_gateway/server.py`, `tui_gateway/tool_progress.py`
- **#126479: Hiding reasoning no longer hides tool rows, and tool_progress: off no longer hides reasoning (salvage #125948)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/app/session/hooks/use-hermes-config.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/session/hooks/use-hermes-config.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/thread/message-parts.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/tool/approval.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/tool/fallback.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/tool/tool-feed-chrome.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/store/tool-activity.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/store/tool-activity.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/types/hermes.ts`, `cli-config.yaml.example`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `tests/tui_gateway/test_show_reasoning_display_gate.py`, `tests/tui_gateway/test_todo_state_events.py`, `tui_gateway/agent_callbacks.py`, `tui_gateway/server.py`, `tui_gateway/tool_progress.py`
- **#108173: fix(tui_gateway): gate reasoning event emissions on display.show_reasoning config (#107094)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `5f32e201c9`, `8f21606116`, `03e17ba7e2b9`, `#121524`, `#126479`, `#111761`, `#113796`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #113796 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-28`.