# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Auto-title generation fixes and improvements

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

Multiple fixes and enhancements to the automatic session title generation feature, including restricting title generation to the first exchange, stripping reasoning/think blocks from LLM responses before extracting titles, and adding multi-message context with retry logic.

## TL;DR

- 7 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 6 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.29`: 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

- #11201: \[Bug\]: maybe_auto_title still fires on the second exchange despite first-exchange contract

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#18643: fix: use extract_content_or_reasoning() for title generation with reasoning models**. closed without merge · fix tier `suggested`
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#17797`, `#20266`
  - _suggested-tier fix detail withheld; re-request with `?tier=all` to include it._
- **#11280: fix 11201: fix auto-title guard to use >= 2**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#11313`
- **#11313: fix(agent): restrict auto-title to first exchange only**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#11201`
- **#19008: fix(title): strip thinking blocks from auto-generated session titles**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `3b739b990b3f624a6cbd823c6b91bf27d83a694a`, `#44126`, `#56298`
- **#26676: feat(title-generator): multi-message context, noise filtering, retry, explicit provider override**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
- **#44126: fix(title_generator): strip think blocks from LLM response before extracting title**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#56298`, `#54252`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `agent`