# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Support local/custom LLM endpoints without API key

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #41370: \[Feature\]: Local model providers without API key
- PR #74079: fix(cli): discover keyless local LM Studio in pickers

These issues and PRs address enabling local and custom model providers (such as LM Studio) to be configured and used without requiring an API key. Changes span CLI, desktop onboarding, and authentication flows.

## 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #41370: \[Feature\]: Local model providers without API key

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#41419: feat(auth): allow local/private-network providers without API key**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `ee066b7be6c2cf646711fdd6845f30ea00cb1910`
- **#74079: fix(cli): discover keyless local LM Studio in pickers**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `ee066b7be6c2cf646711fdd6845f30ea00cb1910`, `ea18c73eaa95`, `#41370`, `#41419`, `#74079`, `#374151`
  - files: `cli.py`, `hermes_cli/inventory.py`, `hermes_cli/model_switch.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_inventory.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_model_switch_custom_providers.py`

## Fix status

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