# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Auxiliary model pins and background review reasoning effort

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items cover pinning auxiliary models across Desktop slots and Settings saves, and ensuring that reasoning_effort is correctly honored for background review tasks when routed through auxiliary model forks.

## 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 #110535. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #110535 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.67`: 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

- #94825: Bug: routed background reviews ignore auxiliary.background_review.reasoning_effort

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#110535: Auxiliary model pins: all 11 slots in Desktop, pins survive Settings saves, review effort honored on routed forks (#98978, #95460, #104116, #94825)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/background_review.py`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/right-rail/real-profile-consent-dialog.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/right-rail/real-profile-consent-dialog.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/settings/appearance-settings.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/settings/browser-real-profile-panel.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/settings/browser-real-profile-panel.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/settings/model-settings.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/settings/model-settings.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/settings/sessions-settings.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/settings/terminal-font-setting.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/settings/terminal-font-setting.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/settings/voice-provider-fields.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/ar.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/en.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/ja.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/zh-hant.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/i18n/zh.ts`, `hermes_cli/config_defaults.py`, `tests/agent/test_background_review_cache_parity.py`, `tests/agent/test_background_review_routed_effort.py` (+3 more)
- **#94832: fix(agent): honor auxiliary.background_review.reasoning_effort on routed review forks**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `47714f9402af`, `#110535`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #110535 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-14`.