e81d18dfb collapsed six per-surface copies of reasoning resolution onto
resolve_reasoning_config() and, in its own words, "fixes the gateway
resolving reasoning against config model.default instead of the session's
effective model". It did not touch gateway/platforms/api_server.py, which
kept that defect.
_create_agent() called GatewayRunner._load_reasoning_config() with no
model on its first line — before the model precedence chain (browser lock
-> session /model -> session row -> route -> per-request -> defaults) has
run. Per-model agent.reasoning_overrides therefore keyed off model.default
on the one surface where every request names its own model: a request for
a model with an override silently got the global effort instead.
Resolve after the chain settles, so the override follows the model the
request actually runs. An explicit per-request reasoning parameter still
takes precedence over config.
The existing test stub for _load_reasoning_config took no arguments (it
mirrored the old call); it now matches the real signature, as the sibling
stub in the same file already did.
Second, deeper pass over tools/gateway/hermes_cli plus first pass over
the trees wave 1 missed (acp, acp_adapter, skills, computer_use, docker,
dashboard, conformance, monitoring, secret_sources, hermes_state,
providers). Same rubric as wave 1 (AGENTS.md test policy); security,
alternation/caching invariants, issue-number regressions, and E2E kept.
Real test-quality fixes found and rooted out along the way:
- tests/tools/test_command_guards.py made real auxiliary-LLM HTTPS calls
(DEFAULT_CONFIG smart-approval leaked in) — pinned approval
mode=manual via autouse fixture: 17.4s → 0.4s.
- test_model_switch_custom_providers.py / test_user_providers_model_switch.py
silently probed live provider catalogs (~2s/test) — stubbed
cached_provider_model_ids/provider_model_ids/fetch_api_models.
- test_telegram_noise_filter.py: 15-platform copy-paste matrix over
shared gateway.run logic → 3 representative platforms (55s → 3.9s).
- test_gateway_shutdown.py: stop()'s 5s interrupt-deadline loop spun on
MagicMock agents — interrupt.side_effect now clears _running_agents
(22s → 1.0s).
- test_gateway_inactivity_timeout.py poll-harness timings shrunk 3-5x
(24s → 1.1s); test_mcp_stability.py backoff/SIGTERM-grace sleeps
patched (15.4s → 2.5s); test_async_delegation.py negative-drain wait
5s → 0.5s.
- test_telegram_init_deadline.py: loop-block margin restored to 1.0s
with rationale comment — the watchdog-dump assertion needs the loop
blocked well past deadline+grace under parallel load (flaked once in
the 40-worker verification run at a 0.2s margin).
Verification: full hermetic suite via scripts/run_tests.sh —
2,438 files, 21,718 tests passed, 0 failed, 293.9s wall.
Suite totals vs original baseline: 46,820 → 19,757 test functions
(−57.8%), wall 583.5s → 293.9s (−50%), subprocess CPU 13,564s → 11,623s.
Collapse the six per-surface copies of override-then-global resolution
(CLI startup, gateway, TUI, cron, /model switch, fallback activation)
onto one shared resolve_reasoning_config() in hermes_constants.
Also fixes the gateway resolving reasoning against config model.default
instead of the session's effective model: after a session-only /model
switch, the switched model's override now applies (gateway message paths
pass the resolved session model through _resolve_session_reasoning_config;
/reasoning status reads the session model override).
Cleanup: drop docs/PER_MODEL_REASONING.md (duplicates the website docs
page), drop the change-detector _config_version test (no bump needed —
deep-merge handles new keys), remove a stale plan-reference comment.
Adds chokepoint contract tests (13) and gateway session-effective-model
regression tests (2).
Add agent.reasoning_overrides dict to config.yaml. Users can now set
a reasoning_effort per model, overriding the global agent.reasoning_effort.
Example:
agent:
reasoning_effort: "medium" # global default
reasoning_overrides:
"openrouter/anthropic/claude-opus-4.5": "xhigh"
"openai/gpt-5": "low"
"claude-sonnet-4.6": "high" # bare model name also works
The helper is spelling-tolerant: override keys match regardless of
provider prefix or dots-vs-dashes normalization, so users can write
keys in any sensible form and they'll match.
Resolution priority:
1. Session-scoped /reasoning --session override (gateway only; unchanged)
2. Per-model override from agent.reasoning_overrides (spelling-tolerant)
3. Global agent.reasoning_effort (existing)
4. Provider default (unchanged)
Wired into:
- CLI startup (cli.py)
- Messaging gateway agent construction (gateway/run.py)
- Desktop/TUI _load_reasoning_config (tui_gateway/server.py)
- Cron job scheduler (cron/scheduler.py)
- /model mid-session switch (agent/agent_runtime_helpers.py)
+ _primary_runtime now tracks reasoning_config for correct fallback recovery
- Fallback activation (agent/chat_completion_helpers.py::try_activate_fallback)
+ Re-resolves reasoning_config for the fallback model (best-effort)
Closes#21256 (per-model reasoning_effort defaults).
Note: no hermes config set agent.reasoning_overrides.<model> support;
users edit the YAML directly. _set_nested splits on "." and would
corrupt model keys containing version dots.
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