# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Opus agent loop handling for reasoning-only responses

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These members concern a bug where Opus model responses containing only reasoning/thinking content cause failures in the agent loop, and proposed fixes to recover visible content and avoid spurious retries in that scenario.

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #39234: Opus models fail with "no final response" in the agent loop (reasoning + streaming content dropped)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#39406: fix(agent): recover visible content from reasoning-only Opus responses (#39234)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `wontfix_bydesign`; implication `wontfix`
- **#39580: fix(agent): handle Opus thinking-only turns — no spurious retry or empty response (#39234)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `wontfix_bydesign`; implication `wontfix`

## Fix status

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