# NousResearch/hermes-agent · MoA aggregator reasoning_effort propagation fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and PRs address a bug where reasoning_effort settings were not being passed through to the MoA aggregator, along with related work on per-slot reasoning_effort configuration and fallback behavior in MoA presets.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #64756. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #64756 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-64756`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #64187: MoA: aggregator never gets agent.reasoning_effort

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#64756: fix(moa): aggregator falls back to global reasoning_effort when slot is unset**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/moa_loop.py`, `tests/agent/test_moa_reasoning_effort.py`
- **#64253: fix: inject reasoning_config into MoA aggregator extra_body (#64187)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#64220`, `#64187`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #64756 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-07-15`.