# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Nous provider model metadata and context length handling

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

The three members relate to how model metadata, especially context length, is determined for the Nous provider. They cover using the Nous portal as a metadata source, a reported 32,768-token fallback affecting startup, and a change touching a Kimi 32k guard for Nous OpenRouter suffix matching.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #24502. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #24502 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.67`: 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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #24000: provider: nous falls back to 32,768-token context, blocking boot with model.context_length workaround required

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#24502: Use nous portal as model metadata authority**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/model_metadata.py`, `tests/agent/test_model_metadata.py`
- **#24066: fix(model-metadata): extend Kimi 32k guard to Nous OpenRouter suffix-match**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `528bba673`, `#24502`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #24502 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-05-12`.
- Subsystem: `agent`