# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Handle unsupported reasoning_effort errors from custom providers

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #129002: Custom (OpenAI-compatible) provider hard-rejects reasoning_effort the seat config set: bot-mode DM resume dies at the provider gate — clamp/remap unsupported effort like other providers do
- PR #129013: fix(error-classifier): recognize 'Unexpected reasoning effort' 400 from custom endpoints
- PR #129089: fix(classifier): recover from SGLang's "Unexpected reasoning effort" 400 instead of aborting

These items address how the system responds when custom or SGLang-compatible endpoints reject requests due to an unrecognized 'reasoning_effort' parameter. The work involves error classification fixes and potentially remapping or clamping the effort value rather than aborting.

## TL;DR

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #129002: Custom (OpenAI-compatible) provider hard-rejects reasoning_effort the seat config set: bot-mode DM resume dies at the provider gate — clamp/remap unsupported effort like other providers do

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#129013: fix(error-classifier): recognize 'Unexpected reasoning effort' 400 from custom endpoints**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
  - files: `agent/error_classifier.py`, `tests/agent/test_error_classifier.py`
- **#129089: fix(classifier): recover from SGLang's "Unexpected reasoning effort" 400 instead of aborting**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `agent/error_classifier.py`, `tests/agent/test_error_classifier.py`, `tests/agent/test_reasoning_disable_recovery.py`

## Fix status

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