Files
hermes-agent/plugins/model-providers
openclaw 01d8562fce fix(zai): add GLM-5.3 support — 1M context window, model lists, reasoning_effort
GLM-5.3 is live on api.z.ai (coding plan endpoint) but had no entries in
Hermes, so it silently fell back to the generic 202K GLM context —
triggering premature context compression on a 1M-window model.

- model_metadata: 'glm-5.3': 1_048_576 (same base model as 5.2; 1M
  context / 128K max output per docs.z.ai/guides/llm/glm-5.3, verified
  2026-08-14)
- auth: add glm-5.3 to coding-plan probe lists (global + CN)
- models: add glm-5.3 to picker/model lists (6 sites)
- zai provider: reasoning_effort mapping covers glm-5.3 (accepted live
  by the endpoint, HTTP 200)
2026-08-21 14:38:32 -07:00
..

Model Provider Plugins

Each subdirectory is a self-contained provider profile plugin. The directory layout mirrors plugins/platforms/:

plugins/model-providers/
├── openrouter/
│   ├── __init__.py      # registers the ProviderProfile
│   └── plugin.yaml      # manifest: name, kind, version, description
├── anthropic/
│   ├── __init__.py
│   └── plugin.yaml
└── ...

How discovery works

providers/__init__.py._discover_providers() scans this directory (and $HERMES_HOME/plugins/model-providers/) the first time anything calls get_provider_profile() or list_providers(). Each __init__.py is imported and expected to call providers.register_provider(profile).

User plugins at $HERMES_HOME/plugins/model-providers/<name>/ override bundled plugins of the same name — last-writer-wins in register_provider(). Drop a file there to replace a built-in.

Adding a new provider

  1. Create plugins/model-providers/<your_provider>/__init__.py:

    from providers import register_provider
    from providers.base import ProviderProfile
    
    my_provider = ProviderProfile(
        name="your-provider",
        aliases=("alias1", "alias2"),
        display_name="Your Provider",
        description="One-line description shown in the setup picker",
        signup_url="https://your-provider.example.com/keys",
        env_vars=("YOUR_PROVIDER_API_KEY", "YOUR_PROVIDER_BASE_URL"),
        base_url="https://api.your-provider.example.com/v1",
        default_aux_model="your-cheap-model",
    )
    
    register_provider(my_provider)
    
  2. Create plugins/model-providers/<your_provider>/plugin.yaml:

    name: your-provider-profile
    kind: model-provider
    version: 1.0.0
    description: Short sentence about the provider
    author: Your Name
    

Nothing else needs to change. auth.py, config.py, models.py, doctor.py, model_metadata.py, runtime_provider.py, and the chat_completions transport all auto-wire from the registry.

Non-trivial profiles

Override the ProviderProfile hooks in a subclass for per-provider quirks — see plugins/model-providers/openrouter/__init__.py for build_extra_body and build_api_kwargs_extras examples, and plugins/model-providers/gemini/__init__.py for thinking_config translation.