# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Piper TTS missing from lazy-install registry

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #44001: Built-in piper TTS provider missing from lazy-install registry (fails on fresh install while edge/elevenlabs/whisper auto-install)
- PR #44010: fix(tts): add piper-tts to lazy-install registry (#44001)

A bug was identified where the built-in Piper TTS provider was absent from the lazy-install registry, causing failures on fresh installs while other providers auto-installed successfully. Related changes address this gap along with install-safety and null-config handling.

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #44001: Built-in piper TTS provider missing from lazy-install registry (fails on fresh install while edge/elevenlabs/whisper auto-install)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#44010: fix(tts): add piper-tts to lazy-install registry (#44001)**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `70db671fac`, `fc4f17bc60`, `ef3cebbe4c`, `#78202`, `#44001`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_piper_lazy_install.py`, `tools/lazy_deps.py`, `tools/tts_tool.py`
- **#78202: fix(tts): piper lazy-install parity + probe install-safety + null-config guards**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `758ffa3b93`, `#78221`

## Fix status

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