# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Multimodal image input routing and policy features

## Open now

- 1 issue, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #7872: Add explicit image input policy for gateway and API image handling

These items add image input handling across the gateway and API server, including routing based on model vision capability, inline image support on chat endpoints, and configurable image input policies.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 1 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

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- Members outside that structural core may belong to a different underlying problem.
- Pairwise link density `0.39`: 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

- #7872: Add explicit image input policy for gateway and API image handling

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #5661: \[Feature\]: Gateway native multimodal image passthrough with capability-aware fallback

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#7874: feat: add image input policy for gateway and API image handling**. closed without merge · fix tier `suggested`
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`
  - _suggested-tier fix detail withheld; re-request with `?tier=all` to include it._
- **#6593: feat: gateway native multimodal image passthrough**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`

## Fix status

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