# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Session title generation fixes for reasoning models

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and pull requests address a bug where automatic session title generation silently fails with reasoning models due to an insufficient max_tokens limit. Proposed changes include bumping the token ceiling, adding multi-message context, noise filtering, retry logic, and explicit provider override options.

## TL;DR

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #20305: Session auto-title generation silently fails with reasoning models (max_tokens too low)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#20338: fix(title-gen): increase max_tokens for reasoning model compatibility**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `stale_abandoned`; implication `active`
- **#26676: feat(title-generator): multi-message context, noise filtering, retry, explicit provider override**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`

## Fix status

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