# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Fix inline reasoning extraction for live pane display

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A bug was reported where the reasoning pane shows nothing when model reasoning arrives inline in the content field rather than a dedicated reasoning field. Two fixes address extracting and feeding that inline reasoning to the live reasoning pane correctly.

## 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 #121770. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #121770 (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-121770`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #89647: \[Bug\] Hermes Desktop reasoning pane dead for MiniMax-M3 (Plus subscription) — reasoning inline in content, never extracted to reasoning_content

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#121770: fix(agent): feed inline <think> reasoning to the live reasoning pane**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/chat_completion_helpers.py`, `agent/stream_delivery.py`, `agent/think_scrubber.py`, `tests/agent/test_plugin_stream_hooks.py`
- **#90417: fix(agent): recover inline reasoning stripped by the think scrubber**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `572446308e`, `#121770`, `#89647`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #121770 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-24`.
- Subsystem: `agent`