# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Fix bare path:/local: pseudo-scheme in vision image handling

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #98428: vision_analyze fails with "media file not found: 'path:/…'" when a text-routed model re-calls it with a bare path: pseudo-scheme
- PR #98431: fix(tools): strip bare path:/local: pseudo-scheme in resolve_image_source
- PR #98499: fix(vision): tolerate bare path:/local: pseudo-scheme in image_url

These items address a bug where vision analysis fails when a text-routed model re-invokes it with a bare path: or local: pseudo-scheme prefix. Fixes are applied in both the image URL parsing and image source resolution layers.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 2 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 0 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #98428: vision_analyze fails with "media file not found: 'path:/…'" when a text-routed model re-calls it with a bare path: pseudo-scheme

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#98431: fix(tools): strip bare path:/local: pseudo-scheme in resolve_image_source**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `f05cc1aad3`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_image_source.py`, `tools/image_source.py`
- **#98499: fix(vision): tolerate bare path:/local: pseudo-scheme in image_url**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#98431`, `#98428`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_image_source.py`, `tools/image_source.py`

## Fix status

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