# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Ollama provider lookup and fallback handling issues

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

Most members concern how a bare or explicit "ollama" provider is looked up and routed to a local daemon, including a report of a silent fallback to OpenRouter. One member about the model chooser and API key configuration is only loosely connected and may be a related but separate issue.

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 3 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_PARTIAL`): some members are connected by structural evidence (shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference); the rest are joined by an automated relevance judgement over their text.
- Members outside that structural core may belong to a different underlying problem.
- Pairwise link density `0.27`: 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

- #16730: \[Bug\]: Model Chooser Conflicts with API Key Resolution and Configuration Management I think It might be related to #12146
- #21352: \[Bug\]: provider: ollama not recognized by auxiliary_client.py — silently falls back to OpenRouter
- #21524: \[Bug\]: Possible local Ollama provider resolution issue in Hermes Agent v0.12.0

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#21384: fix(agent): route bare ollama provider through custom branch**. closed without merge · fix tier `suggested`
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `6a159be7ca936f075be2875516498abaed4810c4`, `#21352`
  - _suggested-tier fix detail withheld; re-request with `?tier=all` to include it._
- **#22497: fix(provider): resolve bare --provider ollama to localhost daemon**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#21384`, `#21524`, `#21352`

## Fix status

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