# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Ollama Cloud DeepSeek reasoning_content echo-back handling in agent

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

The three members all concern how the agent treats reasoning_content for DeepSeek models served through Ollama Cloud (ollama.com), including a bug report about misclassification as a DeepSeek echo-back endpoint and two fix PRs. They appear to be closely related, but the titles alone don't show what any change actually does or its status.

## 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 #136053. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #136053 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #97751: \[Bug\]: ollama-cloud deepseek models misclassified as DeepSeek echo-back endpoint (sends reasoning_content the endpoint discards)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#136053: fix(agent): Ollama Cloud tool loops keep the model's reasoning_content**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/message_sanitization.py`, `agent/reasoning_params.py`, `tests/agent/test_message_sanitization_policy.py`, `tests/fixtures/provider_wire_snapshot.json`
- **#97752: fix(agent): exclude ollama.com from deepseek reasoning_content echo-back**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `8e33fdd7af`, `#136053`, `#97751`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #136053 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-10`.
- Subsystem: `agent`