nesquena/hermes-webui

Add per-session reasoning effort support in WebUI

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#2,697 opened on May 21, 2026

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Description

Summary

Please add per-session reasoning effort support to the WebUI, so it's possible to set reasoning for one conversation without changing the global/default setting for other sessions.

Problem

Right now, reasoning effort appears to be treated as a shared/global setting in the WebUI flow.

Desired behavior

  • Changing reasoning effort in one session should only affect that session.
  • New sessions should continue using the configured default unless explicitly changed.

Notes

This should mirror the session-scoped behavior available in Hermes Agent, where reasoning effort can be set per session while still falling back to a global default.

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Research direction
Identify how reasoning effort is currently stored and used globally, then modify it to be stored per session.
Tech stack
python
Domain
frontend
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2
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1-3 hours
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