# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Ollama reasoning/thinking control and propagation fixes

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #46131: Fix: Ollama reasoning models return empty content — send reasoning_effort to disable thinking
- PR #46489: fix(transports): promote Ollama reasoning field to content when content is empty

These issues and pull requests address passing reasoning_effort or think=false to Ollama and related custom providers to suppress or control thinking/reasoning mode. A recurring concern is that reasoning settings were silently ignored, causing models to run in unintended reasoning modes.

## TL;DR

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

## Open related issues

- #46131: Fix: Ollama reasoning models return empty content — send reasoning_effort to disable thinking

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#46489: fix(transports): promote Ollama reasoning field to content when content is empty**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `agent/transports/chat_completions.py`, `tests/agent/transports/test_chat_completions.py`
- **#105996: fix(transport): enforce reasoning output floor so tight max_tokens can't starve the answer**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `fcd7df372c`, `#9452`

## Fix status

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