# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Provider plugin integration with model picker and runtime

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address gaps in how third-party provider plugins—including OAuth and API-key types—register, authenticate, and appear in the model picker and runtime resolution system. Work spans both the bug report identifying the integration failures and multiple fixes wiring external and out-of-tree plugins into selection and status flows.

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 3 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #116552. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #116552 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.40`: 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

- #21685: \[Bug\]: v0.13.0 provider plugin systems do not fully integrate with runtime resolution and /model picker

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#116552: Model pickers now list out-of-tree external-process and OAuth provider plugins (#102421, salvage #102548 #113870 #111194 #113869)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `agent/agent_init.py`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `hermes_cli/model_switch_providers.py`, `hermes_cli/models.py`, `hermes_cli/models_catalog_static.py`, `tests/agent/test_external_process_provider_init.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_plugin_provider_picker_admission.py`, `website/docs/developer-guide/model-provider-plugin.md`
- **#116553: OAuth-shaped provider plugins now register, log in and refresh through their profile (#116408, salvage #111610 #101768 #94231)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `agent/credential_pool.py`, `agent/credential_pool_plugin.py`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `hermes_cli/auth.py`, `hermes_cli/auth_commands.py`, `hermes_cli/auth_plugin_providers.py`, `providers/__init__.py`, `providers/base.py`, `tests/agent/test_auxiliary_provider_supplied_client.py`, `tests/agent/test_credential_pool_plugin_seam.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_provider_auth_seam.py`, `tests/providers/test_auth_registry_import_order.py`, `tests/providers/test_auth_registry_mid_discovery.py`, `website/docs/developer-guide/model-provider-plugin.md`
- **#116575: Admitted plugin providers are selectable in hermes model, status-accurate and shown in the Desktop picker (#116408)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `agent/account_usage.py`, `agent/agent_init.py`, `hermes_cli/auth.py`, `hermes_cli/auth_plugin_providers.py`, `hermes_cli/main.py`, `hermes_cli/model_setup_flows.py`, `tests/agent/test_account_usage_fetch.py`, `tests/agent/test_external_process_provider_init.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_plugin_provider_picker_residue.py`, `website/docs/developer-guide/model-provider-plugin.md`
- **#21695: fix(providers): wire API-key model-provider plugins into runtime and /model**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `6621e8aa98`, `22beb95427`, `f7240ca980`, `#116408`, `#116553`, `#116552`, `#116575`, `#21685`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #116552 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-20`.
- Subsystem: `hermes_cli`