diff --git a/platform/hermes/config.yaml b/platform/hermes/config.yaml
index 7899930..77b51bd 100644
--- a/platform/hermes/config.yaml
+++ b/platform/hermes/config.yaml
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ platform_toolsets:
 # messages Hermes currently supports; agent replies are governed by SOUL.md.
 display:
   language: "de"
+  show_reasoning: false
 
 # Speech input stays local and private. A fixed German hint avoids Whisper
 # interpreting short utterances as English while retaining the fast base model.
diff --git a/platform/hermes/install-profiles.sh b/platform/hermes/install-profiles.sh
index 8ec6372..aadbc32 100755
--- a/platform/hermes/install-profiles.sh
+++ b/platform/hermes/install-profiles.sh
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ create_profile() {
   docker exec "$HERMES_CONTAINER" hermes -p "$name" config set model.max_tokens 8192
   docker exec "$HERMES_CONTAINER" hermes -p "$name" config set agent.max_turns 64
   docker exec "$HERMES_CONTAINER" hermes -p "$name" config set agent.reasoning_effort minimal
+  docker exec "$HERMES_CONTAINER" hermes -p "$name" config set display.show_reasoning false
   docker exec "$HERMES_CONTAINER" hermes -p "$name" config set auxiliary.title_generation.enabled false
   docker exec "$HERMES_CONTAINER" hermes -p "$name" config unset compression.threshold_tokens || true
   docker exec "$HERMES_CONTAINER" hermes -p "$name" config set compression.threshold 0.82