# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Provider routing propagation for custom providers

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #24450: Support \`provider\` routing for custom providers (e.g. Polza.ai)
- PR #72643: fix(custom): forward provider routing prefs via the profile path

These issues and PRs concern forwarding and preserving provider routing preferences when using custom providers. The work spans multiple request paths and transport layers to ensure routing configuration is correctly propagated.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 1 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.67`: 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.

## Open related issues

- #24450: Support \`provider\` routing for custom providers (e.g. Polza.ai)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#24542: fix(transports): propagate provider routing prefs to custom providers**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#72643`
- **#72643: fix(custom): forward provider routing prefs via the profile path**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `e51b7bee7f65`, `#24450`, `#24542`, `#72600`, `#72643`, `#374151`
  - files: `plugins/model-providers/custom/__init__.py`, `tests/agent/transports/test_chat_completions.py`

## Fix status

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