# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Reasoning model token budget and output limit issues

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and PRs concern problems where reasoning/thinking models exhaust their output token budgets, producing empty or truncated responses, incomplete title generation, and related adjustments to max_tokens defaults and retry behavior.

## 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 #14273. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #14273 (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-14273`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #9571: \[Bug\]: Fail to generate short descriptive title. Model: GLM 5.1.

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#14273: fix(title): bump title_generator max_tokens to 500 for reasoning-model headroom (salvage #9606)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/title_generator.py`, `scripts/release.py`
  - fix hunks:
  - `agent/title_generator.py`

    ```diff
    @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ def generate_title(user_message: str, assistant_response: str, timeout: float =
             response = call_llm(
                 task="title_generation",
                 messages=messages,
    -            max_tokens=30,
    +            max_tokens=500,
                 temperature=0.3,
                 timeout=timeout,
             )
    ```
  - `scripts/release.py`

    ```diff
    @@ -371,6 +371,7 @@
         "[redacted:email]": "projectadmin-dev",
         "[redacted:email]": "Dev-Mriganka",
         "132275809+shushuzn@users.noreply.github.com": "shushuzn",
    +    "[redacted:email]": "iborazzi",
     }
     
     
    ```
- **#9583: fix(agent): #9571 increase max_tokens in title generation to support …**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `f41031af3`, `#14273`, `#9571`
- **#9606: fix(agent): increase max_tokens for title generation to support reasoning models #9571**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#14273`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #14273 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-04-23`. This confirmation is old and may be out of date (a revert/reopen would not have invalidated it here); re-verify.
- Subsystem: `agent`