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Unintended expensive model defaults after Nous auth

NousResearch/hermes-agent · cluster 51491 · apps/desktop

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4 open items. Fix merged in #131917. Check it covers your case.

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2open issues
2open PRs
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A fix was merged to main in PR #131917. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
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The maintainers' tracker marks this partially resolved, deciding PR #131917. That is separate from the fix event.
Still open
2 issues and 2 PRs.

Multiple issues and fixes address the desktop app silently assigning high-cost flagship models as defaults during Nous onboarding or reauthentication, without user confirmation. One adjacent request asks for a warning when Nous cloud connection overwrites local gateway settings.

Open issues2

  • Issue#62840[Feature]: Warning when connecting to NOUS cloud that it will wipe connections to local Gatway setup.
  • Issue#68144[Bug]: Desktop app silently changes global default model to most expensive curated option after Nous Portal re-login (no user confirmation)

Open PRs2

  • PR#51493fix(desktop): Nous recommended default skips Opus-tier
  • PR#128559fix(desktop): keep the configured model when re-authing its provider (#68144)

Fixes on record

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  • #131917 fix(desktop): Nous recommended default skips Anthropic frontier tiers [risk 0.30]

    merged to main

    files: contributors/emails/[redacted:email], hermes_cli/models.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server.py

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: superseded by another PR 1

  • #68328 fix(desktop): preserve model after reauthentication · superseded by another PR → #128559, #68144
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#51491Onboarding defaults paid Nous users to Opus-tier (~$15/$75 per MTok) with no opt-out
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Subsystem
apps/desktop
Merged PRs
#131917
Closed issues
1
Attempts
1 PR closed without merging
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5 Oct 2026

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