# NousResearch/hermes-agent · ollama-cloud system message missing from requests

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A bug where the ollama-cloud provider fails to include system message content in outgoing requests, and related fix attempts adding a guard to address this.

## 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #29871: \[Bug\]: ollama-cloud provider does not inject SOUL.md into outgoing request (loader fires correctly; content drops downstream)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#29935: fix: add system-message guard for ollama-cloud (#29871)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#29871`, `#30107`
- **#30236: fix(transport): system-message guard for ollama-cloud (#29871)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `d682f320b35a13084371a541a835e1d988c982b8`, `#29871`

## Fix status

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