# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Gemini thinking tokens exhaust title generation budget

## Open now

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A bug where Gemini models' default thinking token usage consumes the entire max_tokens budget, causing session title generation to fail. The associated fixes disable thinking tokens for auxiliary title generation calls to prevent this starvation.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #106422. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #106422 (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: `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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #91927: \[Bug\]: Session title generation fails with Gemini models due to default thinking tokens consuming max_tokens budget

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#106422: Gemini session titles no longer break into \`\`\`json artifacts (#91927, salvage #91933 + #92406)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/title_generator.py`, `agent/transports/chat_completions.py`, `tests/agent/test_gemini_thinking_config.py`, `tests/agent/test_title_generator.py`
- **#91957: fix(gemini): disable thinking tokens by default for auxiliary title generation**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `6dd091a89c33`, `#106422`
- **#92406: fix(title): disable Gemini thinking tokens to prevent max_tokens starvation**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#106422`, `#91933`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #106422 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-13`.
- Subsystem: `agent`