Fix vision fallback to avoid text-only models

NousResearch/hermes-agent · cluster 108349

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These issues and pull requests address a bug where auxiliary vision tasks incorrectly fall back to text-only models, and where upstream capacity errors (such as 429s) improperly trigger credential pool rotation or exhaustion.

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#113970 fix(aux): OpenRouter budget-limit 403 falls back, quarantine logs name the real reason, vision fallback skips text-only models (#107166, #64144, #108349, salvage #107173 #64146 #108366)

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files: agent/auxiliary_client.py, agent/error_classifier.py, tests/agent/test_auxiliary_client.py, tests/agent/test_auxiliary_error_classification.py

4 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: done elsewhere 4

#108366 fix(aux): do not fall back to a text-only main model for vision tasks · done elsewhere → a1238ad, #113970
#108373 fix(auxiliary): preserve vision routing on Nous capacity errors · done elsewhere → a1238ad, #113970
#108379 fix(agent): screen vision capabilities in aux fallbacks and protect pool on upstream capacity 429 (fixes #108349) · done elsewhere → a1238ad, #113970
#108546 fix(agent): screen vision fallbacks by capability; don't rotate pool on upstream-capacity 429 · done elsewhere → a1238ad, #113970

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Closed#108349[Bug]: Aux vision fallback sends images to text-only main model on transient Nous 429 (upstream capacity) -> 1210; also marks chat credential pool exhausted

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Merged PRs: #113970
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Fix link checked: 17 Sep 2026

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