# NousResearch/hermes-agent · excluded_providers not applied to user-defined provider entries

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #142961: model_catalog.excluded_providers does not hide user-defined providers: entries (they surface as custom:<name>)
- PR #142990: fix(model-picker): honour excluded_providers for user-defined providers

The members describe one theme: the model_catalog.excluded_providers setting reportedly does not hide user-defined providers, which appear as custom:<name>. Two members are fixes titled around honouring excluded_providers for user-defined providers in the model picker or model rows; their outcomes are not stated here.

## TL;DR

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #142961: model_catalog.excluded_providers does not hide user-defined providers: entries (they surface as custom:<name>)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#142977: fix(model): honour excluded_providers for user-defined provider rows**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#142990`
- **#142990: fix(model-picker): honour excluded_providers for user-defined providers**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#142977`
  - files: `hermes_cli/model_switch_providers.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_model_picker_excluded_providers.py`

## Fix status

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