# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Custom providers show no models in model picker

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

Members report that custom or user-defined providers appear with zero models (or are hidden) in the GUI, Desktop, TUI, or /model picker, with several pointing to aggregator classification and deduplication logic as the cause. Some members are proposed fixes that skip deduplication for custom providers.

## TL;DR

- 10 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 8 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 2 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_PARTIAL`): some members are connected by structural evidence (shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference); the rest are joined by an automated relevance judgement over their text.
- Members outside that structural core may belong to a different underlying problem.
- Pairwise link density `0.22`: 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

- #47042: \[BUG\] Desktop model picker hides custom providers due to is_aggregator() false positive in dedup logic
- #47124: \[Bug\]: Custom endpoints do not appear in the Agent because their models are wiped by the aggregator deduplication logic
- #47132: bug(inventory): named custom providers lose all models in GUI picker after 60cc42e38
- #47155: Regression: /model hides custom:* provider after deduplication empties its model list
- #47258: UI model picker shows 0 models for custom_providers entries
- #47386: Custom providers with models: list show 0 models in Desktop/TUI model picker
- #47402: Model picker shows 0 models for custom: providers due to is_aggregator() treating all custom: slugs as aggregators
- #48990: Bug: custom_providers models silently stripped from /model picker

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#47050: fix(inventory): skip self-dedup when custom provider is also classified as aggregator**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `b7fa62c53019a7e44599de4f6cdd30071ee7b7e4`
- **#47133: fix(picker): skip user-defined providers in aggregator dedup (#47042)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#46921`, `#47050`, `#47042`, `#45954`, `#46829`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`