# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Startup model/provider flags lost across session boundaries

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #74329: \[Bug\]: Wake-spawned sessions silently discard --model/--provider startup flags
- PR #121104: fix(cli): keep launch --model/--provider across /new and wake-word sessions

These items concern a bug where --model and --provider flags passed at launch are silently discarded when new or wake-word sessions are created. A fix is proposed to preserve these flags across session boundaries.

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #74329: \[Bug\]: Wake-spawned sessions silently discard --model/--provider startup flags

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#74818: fix(cli): keep startup --model/--provider across session boundaries (#74329)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#68887`, `#68113`
- **#121104: fix(cli): keep launch --model/--provider across /new and wake-word sessions**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `447c0c186e`, `#74329`
  - files: `hermes_cli/cli_init_mixin.py`, `hermes_cli/cli_session_mixin.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_cli_new_session.py`

## Fix status

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