# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Add native Gemini image generation backend plugin

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #97474: Feature: Native Google AI Studio (Gemini/Nano Banana) image-generation backend using GOOGLE_API_KEY directly
- PR #127068: Add gemini-image to the plugin catalog

Multiple related proposals and implementations to add a direct Google AI Studio (Gemini) image generation backend using GOOGLE_API_KEY. Members cover the plugin implementation, catalog registration, and associated feature requests.

## TL;DR

- 6 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 4 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.33`: 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

- #97474: Feature: Native Google AI Studio (Gemini/Nano Banana) image-generation backend using GOOGLE_API_KEY directly

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#97576: feat(image-gen): add direct Gemini backend**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `wontfix_bydesign`; implication `wontfix`
- **#119036: Feat/gemini image gen plugin**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#97576`
- **#120851: feat(gemini): add image_gen plugin with Google AI Studio Gemini (Nano Banana) backend**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
- **#121183: feat(image_gen): native Google AI Studio backend (GOOGLE_API_KEY direct)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `a9a59233536e`
- **#127068: Add gemini-image to the plugin catalog**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `plugin-catalog/gemini-image.yaml`

## Fix status

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