# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Model name normalization fix for regional providers

## Open now

- 1 issue, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #12140: Auxiliary compression fails with minimax-cn: model name not normalized in auto-detect

A bug where auxiliary compression fails because model names are not normalized when using regional-variant providers like minimax-cn. The associated fixes address stripping base-vendor prefixes during model name normalization.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Open related issues

- #12140: Auxiliary compression fails with minimax-cn: model name not normalized in auto-detect

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#12165: fix(model-normalize): strip base-vendor prefix for regional-variant providers (#12140)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `stale_abandoned`; implication `active`
- **#17079: fix(model-normalize): strip base-vendor prefix for regional-variant providers**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#12165`, `#12140`, `#17046`, `#17093`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `agent`