Raw yaml.safe_load of config.yaml is only legal in owner modules; the
write-back round-trip uses the sanctioned raw primitive. Behavior-identical
(same file, same parse, {} on missing).
An external-process provider is an agent CLI Hermes drives over stdio rather
than an HTTP endpoint. Three things about it were spelled out for one vendor,
and each was a hard stop for any other:
* ``resolve_provider()`` gates on ``PROVIDER_REGISTRY``. Its auto-extend from
``providers/`` covered api-key providers only, so an external-process profile
never entered it and ``hermes -m <that provider>`` died with "Unknown
provider" before a client was ever built.
* ``resolve_runtime_provider()`` keyed the external-process branch on the
literal ``"copilot-acp"``, so anything else silently fell through to the
OpenRouter default instead of its own runtime.
* ``resolve_external_process_provider_credentials()`` hardcoded the binary
(``copilot``), the argv (``--acp --stdio``), the env var names and the
placeholder api_key — so a third-party provider would have been handed
another vendor's CLI.
Now the profile carries what only the provider knows — ``process_command``,
``process_args``, ``process_command_env_vars``, ``process_args_env_var`` — and
the three core paths key on ``auth_type == "external_process"`` instead of a
name. copilot-acp's values move into its profile verbatim, so
``HERMES_COPILOT_ACP_COMMAND`` / ``COPILOT_CLI_PATH`` /
``HERMES_COPILOT_ACP_ARGS`` and its ``copilot-acp`` api_key placeholder behave
exactly as before; the new tests assert that alongside the out-of-tree case at
every step.
The error for a missing binary now names the provider and its own env override
instead of telling every user to install GitHub Copilot CLI.
Co-Authored-By: Junie <junie@jetbrains.com>
``create_openai_client`` was a hardcoded if-ladder: copilot-acp builds an ACP
stdio shim, gemini builds a native client, everything else gets an
``openai.OpenAI``. There was no extension point, so a provider whose wire
protocol is not OpenAI-over-HTTP could only be added by editing this function —
which is exactly why an ACP provider cannot ship outside this tree today, even
though ``providers/__init__.py`` has discovered out-of-tree profiles from
``~/.hermes/plugins/model-providers/`` and pip entry points for a while.
``ProviderProfile.create_client(**client_kwargs)`` closes that gap. It returns
``None`` by default, so every provider that wants the standard client is
unaffected and the existing ladder still runs as the fallback. copilot-acp is
migrated onto it — its hardcoded branch is gone and its profile supplies the
client in three lines, which is the same three lines an external package writes.
Resolution goes by provider name first, then by ``base_url`` prefix, so a
runtime configured only by URL still reaches its profile — matching what the
replaced ``startswith("acp://copilot")`` branch did. A profile that raises is
logged and skipped: a third-party plugin can fail to provide a client, but it
cannot take the turn down.
Also replaces the two ``isinstance`` checks in ``agent/auxiliary_client.py``
that mean "this client is complete, do not wrap it" with capability flags the
client class declares — ``HERMES_SKIP_TRANSPORT_WRAP`` and
``HERMES_SKIP_ASYNC_WRAP``, mirroring ``SUPPORTS_HERMES_TOOL_CALLS`` in
``background_review.py``. Two in-tree consumers (the ACP shim and the Gemini
native client), an out-of-tree client is covered by the same declaration, and
the hot path no longer imports those modules just to type-test.
Co-Authored-By: Junie <junie@jetbrains.com>
Slots above gemini-3.7-flash (kept) in OPENROUTER_MODELS and
_PROVIDER_MODELS["nous"]; openrouter plugin fallback_models bumped
3.7 -> 3.8; model-catalog.json regenerated.
Verified live with test completions on both Nous Portal and OpenRouter
(model echo + billed). Same 1,048,576 window / 65,536 output / pricing
as 3.7-flash, so provider-agnostic metadata resolves via the existing
gemini entries and both routes bill live (official_models_api) — no
pricing snapshot needed.
Scoped to the two named providers: vertex/gemini/kilocode/gmi curated
lists, setup.py samples, and aux defaults untouched.