# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Add text verbosity config for OpenAI Responses API

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern adding an \`agent.text_verbosity\` configuration option to control response length verbosity when using the OpenAI Responses API, targeting GPT-5 and later models. The work spans feature requests and implementation across the OpenAI and Codex layers.

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 3 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #115880. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #115880 (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-115880`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.40`: 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

- #20203: \[Feature\]: Add configuration support for OpenAI Responses API text verbosity

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#115880: feat(openai): agent.text_verbosity controls Responses answer length (#20203, salvage #20258)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `agent/agent_init.py`, `agent/chat_completion_helpers.py`, `agent/codex_responses_adapter.py`, `agent/transports/codex.py`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `hermes_cli/config_defaults.py`, `tests/agent/test_codex_responses_adapter.py`, `tests/agent/transports/test_codex_transport.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/configuration.md`
- **#29574: feat(openai): support Responses text verbosity**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `44d3b1b1b`
- **#59844: feat(codex): add agent.text_verbosity config for GPT-5+ response length control**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#115880`
- **#72638: feat(openai): configure Responses verbosity**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `1285de7bbc7bc559b520eb1647af3def5bffb25b`, `#115880`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #115880 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-19`.
- Subsystem: `agent`