# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop thinking/reasoning toggle resets to medium

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

Multiple bug reports and fixes addressing the desktop app's thinking/reasoning toggle reverting to 'medium' instead of persisting 'none' or 'off' across conversation turns. Includes related config persistence issues and a status-bar model picker feature.

## TL;DR

- 6 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 4 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_PARTIAL`): some members are connected by structural evidence (shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference); the rest are joined by an automated relevance judgement over their text.
- Members outside that structural core may belong to a different underlying problem.
- Pairwise link density `0.28`: 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

- #43275: Desktop: Thinking toggle reverts to 'Med' after one conversation turn
- #43994: \[Bug\]: Desktop status-bar Thinking toggle reverts to model default after the next message
- #44822: Desktop: reasoning toggle resets to 'medium' after first message when config is 'none'
- #45805: Desktop App: Model thinking level setting cannot be persisted — always reverts to medium

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#43285: fix(tui): return "none" for reasoning_effort when Thinking toggle is off**. closed without merge · fix tier `suggested`
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `5a6720b884eb9ab373da8986a0b7ddb571e312e7`
  - _suggested-tier fix detail withheld; re-request with `?tier=all` to include it._
- **#43308: fix(tui): return "none" reasoning_effort when thinking toggle is off**. closed without merge · fix tier `suggested`
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#43285`, `#43275`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`