# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Reduce startup delay from unnecessary Ollama API probes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and PRs address a ~1.7s startup latency caused by Ollama /api/show probe requests firing for non-Ollama providers. The work involves gating or skipping those probes to improve first-token response time.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #59332. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #59332 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #31555: \[Performance\] Ollama /api/show probe adds ~1.7s startup delay for non-Ollama providers

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#59332: perf: cut first-turn time-to-first-token by ~80% (all platforms)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/agent_init.py`, `agent/model_metadata.py`, `agent/turn_context.py`, `cli.py`, `tests/tools/test_discord_tool.py`, `tools/discord_tool.py`, `tools/env_probe.py`
- **#31569: fix(agent): skip Ollama /api/show probe for known non-Ollama providers**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `stale_abandoned`; implication `active`
- **#39562: fix(model-metadata): gate Ollama api/show probes**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `a124d16764a23a0ac29cfbfe14ef22310c4959d8`, `#59332`, `#31555`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #59332 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-07-06`.
- Subsystem: `agent`