# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Case-insensitive streaming reasoning tag filtering

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and pull requests address a bug where streaming reasoning tag filters did not match mixed-case variants of think-block tags. The updates make the filtering logic case-insensitive and add defensive scrubbing.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #56275. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #56275 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #27288: Streaming reasoning tag filters miss mixed-case tag variants

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#56275: fix: make streaming reasoning-tag filter case-insensitive**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `cli.py`, `gateway/stream_consumer.py`, `scripts/release.py`, `tests/cli/test_stream_delta_think_tag.py`, `tests/gateway/test_stream_consumer.py`
- **#27289: fix: make streaming reasoning tag filter case-insensitive**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#56275`
- **#28631: fix(stream-consumer): case-insensitive think-block filtering with defence-in-depth scrub**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#27289`, `#27288`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #56275 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-07-01`.
- Subsystem: `gateway`