# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Model switching should prefer the currently active provider

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

The members share a theme: when a model name or alias is ambiguous, the switcher or gateway should favor the active or configured provider rather than another one such as OpenRouter. One member also mentions a DeepSeek Flash model id, and the items include both an issue report and proposed fixes.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #107236. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #107236 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #19858: Model switcher ignores current provider — ambiguous name resolves to OpenRouter instead of active provider

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#107236: fix(models): /model keeps a model the current provider serves; deepseek-flash is DeepSeek's canonical Flash id (refs #97487, supersedes #107126)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/model_metadata.py`, `agent/reasoning_timeouts.py`, `agent/usage_pricing.py`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `hermes_cli/goals.py`, `hermes_cli/model_normalize.py`, `hermes_cli/models.py`, `hermes_cli/models_catalog_static.py`, `hermes_cli/models_detect.py`, `plugins/model-providers/deepseek/__init__.py`, `tests/agent/test_model_metadata.py`, `tests/agent/test_reasoning_stale_timeout_floor.py`, `tests/agent/test_usage_pricing.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_model_normalize.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_models_detect_live_catalog.py`, `tests/plugins/model_providers/test_deepseek_profile.py`
- **#19904: fix(gateway): prefer configured provider for model aliases**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `64972b64038b97cf9af095dd5f107723a2ee6ab3`, `#34500`
- **#19950: fix: prefer active provider for anthropic sonnet switches**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `2466684db54`, `#107236`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #107236 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-10`.
- Subsystem: `gateway`