# NousResearch/hermes-agent · External-process providers opting into streaming and stall timer behavior

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These members relate to external-process providers (including a Claude DirectSDK case) and streaming: one describes long answers no longer being cancelled by a stall timer (referencing salvage of #124566), another notes providers cannot opt into streaming despite yielding incremental deltas, and a third is a fix titled to let such providers opt back into streaming. The titles suggest a shared theme, but the exact relationship between the stall timer item and the opt-in item is not fully clear from titles alone.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #142905. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #142905 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #140606: External-process providers can't opt into streaming even when their client genuinely yields incremental deltas

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#142905: Long answers from streaming process providers (Claude DirectSDK) no longer get cancelled by the stall timer (salvage #124566)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/turn_api_call.py`, `providers/base.py`, `tests/agent/test_external_process_streaming.py`, `website/docs/developer-guide/model-provider-plugin.md`
- **#140868: fix(agent): let an external-process provider opt back into streaming**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `81a55437f3`, `#142905`, `#124566`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #142905 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-22`.
- Subsystem: `agent`