# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Agent ultra reasoning effort clamping for aux/MoA calls

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern a bug where setting reasoning_effort to 'ultra' causes 400 errors on auxiliary and MoA chat-completion calls, and fixes to clamp that value to the accepted wire vocabulary before sending.

## 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 #112252. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #112252 (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-112252`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #112010: \[Bug\]: \`agent.reasoning_effort: ultra\` 400s every MoA turn — aux/MoA chat-completions path never clamps effort to the wire vocabulary

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#112252: fix(agent): reasoning_effort ultra no longer 400s auxiliary and MoA calls (#112010, salvage #112019)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/auxiliary_client.py`, `agent/reasoning_effort.py`, `agent/transports/chat_completions.py`, `tests/agent/test_auxiliary_client.py`
- **#112019: fix(agent): clamp auxiliary ultra reasoning effort**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `5435ac8cc4`, `#112252`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #112252 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-16`.