# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Fix reasoning-only stops leaking chain-of-thought text

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a bug where a reasoning model that stops with empty content incorrectly exposes its internal chain-of-thought as the final reply. The fix prevents that private reasoning channel from being promoted verbatim into the user-facing response.

## 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 #133729. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #133729 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.67`: 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

- #114082: \[Bug\]: Reasoning-only "clean stop" promotes the reasoning channel verbatim into the final response — degenerate reasoning reaches the user as garbled text

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#133729: fix(agent): a reasoning model's private chain-of-thought is no longer shown as the reply when it stops with empty content (#114082, salvage #112833)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/agent_init.py`, `agent/reasoning_promotion.py`, `agent/turn_empty_response.py`, `agent/turn_failure_copy.py`, `agent/turn_final_response.py`, `tests/agent/test_empty_terminal_reasoning_surface.py`, `tests/agent/test_reasoning_only_stop_persistence.py`, `tests/agent/test_run_agent.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/configuring-models.md`
- **#114085: fix(agent): recover corrupted reasoning-only stops**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#133729`, `#111761`, `#114082`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #133729 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-06`.