# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Vision tool availability fixes for custom providers

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These changes address bugs where vision tools were incorrectly dropped or marked unavailable, particularly for named custom providers, and improve error visibility when availability probes crash.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 2 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #110188. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #110188 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-110188`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #87950: Vision tools silently stripped when auxiliary.vision points at a named custom provider without base_url

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#110136: Vision tools no longer vanish after the first availability probe (#87654, salvage #85751)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/auxiliary_client.py`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `tests/tools/test_startup_latency_regressions.py`
- **#110188: Availability probes that crash now log the traceback instead of reading as unconfigured (#87950)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_terminal_tool_requirements.py`, `tests/tools/test_vision_tools.py`, `tools/browser_tool_install.py`, `tools/browser_vault_tool.py`, `tools/image_generation_tool.py`, `tools/registry.py`, `tools/video_generation_tool.py`, `tools/vision_tools.py`, `tools/x_search_tool.py`
- **#87962: fix(vision): keep tools available for named custom providers**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `643b3f450df1`, `a714ff9823b9`, `#87950`, `#110188`, `#110136`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #110188 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-13`.
- Subsystem: `agent`