# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Guard against missing choices in LLM response parsing

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #5968: \[Bug\]: extract_content_or_reasoning() raises when response has no usable choices
- PR #5969: fix(auxiliary): guard extract_content_or_reasoning when choices are missing

A bug where extract_content_or_reasoning() raises an error when the LLM response contains no usable choices, along with multiple fix attempts adding defensive guards for that case.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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.

## Open related issues

- #5968: \[Bug\]: extract_content_or_reasoning() raises when response has no usable choices

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#5969: fix(auxiliary): guard extract_content_or_reasoning when choices are missing**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#7224`
  - files: `agent/auxiliary_client.py`, `tests/tools/test_llm_content_none_guard.py`
- **#6099: fix(auxiliary): guard against empty choices in extract_content_or_reasoning()**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
- **#7224: fix(auxiliary): guard against empty choices in extract_content_or_reasoning()**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#5969`, `#5968`

## Fix status

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