# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Reasoning effort thinking budget gaps in Anthropic providers

## Open now

- 1 issue, 3 PRs open on GitHub.
- #61334: reasoning_effort: minimal/max silently fall back to the same thinking budget as medium on Anthropic-Messages-compatible providers
- PR #61339: fix(agent): add missing minimal/max entries to THINKING_BUDGET
- PR #61359: fix(agent): warn when reasoning_effort has no THINKING_BUDGET entry (fixes #61334)
- PR #118328: fix(anthropic): honor every reasoning effort on the manual thinking path

These issues and PRs address missing or incomplete THINKING_BUDGET entries for certain reasoning_effort values (minimal/max) in Anthropic-compatible providers, and add warnings when an effort level has no corresponding budget configured.

## TL;DR

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #61334: reasoning_effort: minimal/max silently fall back to the same thinking budget as medium on Anthropic-Messages-compatible providers

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#61339: fix(agent): add missing minimal/max entries to THINKING_BUDGET**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `agent/anthropic_adapter.py`, `tests/agent/test_anthropic_adapter.py`, `tests/agent/test_thinking_budget.py`
- **#61359: fix(agent): warn when reasoning_effort has no THINKING_BUDGET entry (fixes #61334)**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#61339`, `#61339`
  - files: `agent/anthropic_adapter.py`, `tests/agent/test_anthropic_adapter.py`
- **#118328: fix(anthropic): honor every reasoning effort on the manual thinking path**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `28a9d7233f`
  - files: `agent/anthropic_adapter.py`, `tests/agent/test_anthropic_adapter.py`

## Fix status

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