# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Gateway /model picker failures and fallback behavior

## Open now

- 0 issues, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- PR #20968: fix(gateway): log /model picker provider failures

These issues and fixes relate to the /model command's interactive picker falling back to plain text, caused by API drift and swallowed errors in the gateway. Work includes surfacing provider failures through logging and correcting picker context handling.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 2 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 1 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.56`: 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

- #20966: /model picker silently falls back to text list (TypeError swallowed in _handle_model_command)
- #20996: /model command falls back to plain text instead of interactive picker (API drift in list_picker_providers)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#20513: Fix gateway model picker current context**. merged to main · fix tier `suggested`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - _suggested-tier fix detail withheld; re-request with `?tier=all` to include it._
- **#20968: fix(gateway): log /model picker provider failures**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `gateway/run.py`, `tests/gateway/test_model_command_custom_providers.py`

## Fix status

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