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>
The /model interactive picker resolved a base_url from user credentials
but never passed it to ProviderProfile.fetch_models(), causing the
picker to always query the provider's hardcoded default endpoint
instead of the user's custom URL (e.g. a company litellm proxy).
- providers/base.py: add optional base_url parameter to fetch_models()
- hermes_cli/models.py: pass resolved base_url to fetch_models()
- Update all subclass overrides for signature compatibility
- Add 6 regression tests covering override, fallback, and integration
Every provider profile is now a self-contained plugin under
plugins/model-providers/<name>/, mirroring the plugins/platforms/
pattern established for IRC and Teams. The ProviderProfile ABC
stays in providers/; the per-provider profile data moves out.
- plugins/model-providers/<name>/__init__.py calls register_provider()
- plugins/model-providers/<name>/plugin.yaml declares kind: model-provider
- providers/__init__.py._discover_providers() lazily scans bundled plugins
then $HERMES_HOME/plugins/model-providers/<name>/ (user override path)
- User plugins with the same name override bundled ones (last-writer-wins
in register_provider)
- Legacy providers/<name>.py layout still supported for back-compat with
out-of-tree editable installs
- Hermes PluginManager: new kind=model-provider; skipped like memory
plugins (providers/ discovery owns them); standalone plugins with
register_provider+ProviderProfile in their __init__.py auto-coerce to
this kind (same heuristic as memory providers)
- skip_names extended to include 'model-providers' so the general
PluginManager doesn't double-scan the category
- 4 new tests in tests/providers/test_plugin_discovery.py covering
bundled discovery, user override, and general-loader isolation
- Docs updated: website/docs/developer-guide/adding-providers.md,
provider-runtime.md, providers/README.md, plugins/model-providers/README.md
No API break: auth.py / config.py / doctor.py / models.py / runtime_provider.py /
model_metadata.py / auxiliary_client.py / chat_completions.py / run_agent.py
all still consume providers via get_provider_profile() / list_providers() —
they just now see plugin-discovered entries instead of pkgutil-iterated ones.
Third parties can now drop a single directory into
~/.hermes/plugins/model-providers/<name>/ to add or override an inference
provider without touching the repo.
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