# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Expressing zero tools via CLI -t toolsets option

## Open now

- 1 issue, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #126122: CLI/-z: no way to request zero tools — \`-t ""\` silently uses configured toolsets; add a \`none\` sentinel

These members concern the CLI \`-t\` option being unable to request zero tools: an empty \`-t ""\` reportedly falls back to configured toolsets, and a \`none\` sentinel is proposed. Two of the three titles are identical pull-request-style titles about making zero tools expressible and failing closed on an empty \`-t\`.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 2 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.67`: 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.

## Open related issues

- #126122: CLI/-z: no way to request zero tools — \`-t ""\` silently uses configured toolsets; add a \`none\` sentinel

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#127881: fix(toolsets): make zero tools expressible, fail closed on an empty -t**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `stale_abandoned`; implication `active`
- **#138999: fix(toolsets): make zero tools expressible, fail closed on an empty -t**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`

## Fix status

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