# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Agent streaming control and subagent tool narration fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address honoring a non-streaming escape hatch when model.streaming is set to false, and a bug where delegate_task subagents narrate tool calls as text instead of executing them. The issues span two distinct but related agent behavior problems.

## 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 #100937. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #100937 (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-100937`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #72901: delegate_task subagents narrate tool calls in text instead of executing them (v0.19.0)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#100937: fix(agent): model.streaming: false honored; retired Codex stream no longer returned as completed (salvage #80789, #98956)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/agent_init.py`, `agent/chat_completion_helpers.py`, `agent/codex_runtime.py`, `cli-config.yaml.example`, `tests/agent/test_codex_ttfb_watchdog.py`, `tests/run_agent/test_model_streaming_config.py`, `tests/run_agent/test_run_agent_codex_responses.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/configuration.md`
- **#80789: fix(agent): honor model.streaming: false as a non-streaming escape hatch**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `e71352aef38cf33fb3ff4872d2f37b2ce6304cad`, `#100937`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #100937 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-02`.
- Subsystem: `agent`