# NousResearch/hermes-agent · xAI image/video ephemeral URL caching and delivery

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and PRs address xAI image and video generation features, focusing on a core problem where ephemeral provider URLs expire before delivery, requiring gateway-side caching and local storage to reliably serve generated media.

## 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 #31759. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #31759 (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: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-31759`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #26942: image_gen + video_gen: xAI ephemeral tmp URLs 404 by send_photo time — needs gateway-side caching

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#31759: fix(image_gen): cache xAI ephemeral URL responses to disk (#26942)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/image_gen_provider.py`, `plugins/image_gen/openai/__init__.py`, `plugins/image_gen/xai/__init__.py`, `tests/agent/test_save_url_image.py`, `tests/plugins/image_gen/test_openai_provider.py`, `tests/plugins/image_gen/test_xai_provider.py`
- **#26955: fix(image-gen): pre-cache provider URLs to image_cache before delivery (#26942)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `stale_abandoned`; implication `active`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #31759 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-05-25`.
- Subsystem: `gateway`