# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Named custom provider persistence broken across ACP restarts

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #132937: ACP session restore fails for named custom providers (bare "custom" persisted, 401 on first prompt)
- PR #132947: fix(acp): heal the bare custom provider label on session restore
- PR #132954: fix(acp): restore and persist named custom providers across ACP restarts

A bug causes named custom providers to be stored as bare 'custom' labels, leading to authentication failures when ACP sessions are restored. The members address identifying, reproducing, and fixing this persistence and session-restore issue.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 2 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 0 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #132937: ACP session restore fails for named custom providers (bare "custom" persisted, 401 on first prompt)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#132947: fix(acp): heal the bare custom provider label on session restore**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `acp_adapter/session.py`, `tests/acp_adapter/test_session_custom_provider_restore.py`
- **#132954: fix(acp): restore and persist named custom providers across ACP restarts**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `acp_adapter/session.py`, `hermes_cli/runtime_provider.py`, `hermes_cli/runtime_provider_custom.py`, `tests/acp_adapter/test_session.py`

## Fix status

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