# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Fixing invalid kwargs passed to provider API calls

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and fixes address cases where unexpected or unsupported keyword arguments are forwarded to provider API calls, including 'system', 'thinking', and other invalid request override keys. Fixes span Anthropic, Minimax, and general transport layers.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 2 closed issue(s), 0 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.79`: 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

- #60821: \[Bug\]: TypeError: Completions.create() got an unexpected keyword argument 'system' in chat_completions.py via _build_kwargs_from_profile
- #61030: \[Bug\]: TypeError: Completions.create() got an unexpected keyword argument 'system' in chat_completions.py via _build_kwargs_from_profile

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#61355: fix(transport): drop invalid request_overrides keys instead of forwarding them**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `wontfix_bydesign`; implication `wontfix`; refs `#61030`, `#60821`

## Fix status

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