The Sep 2026 decomposition (PR #102117) makes internal import paths a non-API: names now live in the focused modules that define them. This commit is the ONLY thing keeping the old paths alive, so external plugins have time to update. It is deliberately a single, unsquashed commit: git revert <this sha> removes every shim, stub and manifest at once on the announced date. Nothing in-tree may depend on these pointers: scripts/check_compat_pointers.py (wired into lint.yml) fails CI if it does. What it adds (see COMPAT_MANIFEST.md, compat_manifest.json): - 332 facade modules get one delimited `PLUGIN-COMPAT` block appended at the end of the file - 1,172 moved names resolved lazily via a module `__getattr__` (PEP 562) — never a top-level import, so no import cycles; facades that already had `__getattr__` get a chained one - 592 third-party/stdlib names the old modules used to expose, with their original import statements - 266 public definitions that had been deleted as unused, restored byte-for-byte from the pre-decomposition tree (+40 private helpers and 16 imports pulled in only because a restored definition needs them) - 3 deleted modules recreated as re-export stubs (gateway/startup_watchdog, hermes_cli/observability/ relay_runtime, tools/environments/modal_utils) - private names (`_x`) get no pointer: they were never API (3,792 skipped) Verified: all 335 touched modules import under a fresh HERMES_HOME and every manifest name resolves; the lint reports zero in-tree uses; ruff clean; targeted suites unchanged.
providers/
Registry and ABC for every inference provider Hermes knows about.
Each provider is declared once as a ProviderProfile. Every other layer —
auth resolution, transport kwargs, model listing, runtime routing — reads from
these profiles instead of maintaining its own parallel data.
Layout
providers/
├── base.py ProviderProfile dataclass + OMIT_TEMPERATURE sentinel
├── __init__.py Registry: register_provider(), get_provider_profile(), list_providers()
└── README.md This file
The profiles themselves live as plugins under
plugins/model-providers/<name>/ (bundled in this repo) and
$HERMES_HOME/plugins/model-providers/<name>/ (per-user overrides). The
registry in providers/__init__.py lazily discovers them the first time any
consumer calls get_provider_profile() or list_providers(). See
plugins/model-providers/README.md for the plugin contract and examples.
How it wires in
The registry is populated on first access. After that, every downstream layer reads from it:
hermes_cli/auth.pyextendsPROVIDER_REGISTRYwith every api-key profile it sees (skippingcopilot,kimi-coding,kimi-coding-cn,zai,openrouter,custom— those need bespoke token resolution).hermes_cli/models.pyextendsCANONICAL_PROVIDERSand callsprofile.fetch_models()insideprovider_model_ids().hermes_cli/doctor.pyadds a/modelshealth check for eachauth_type="api_key"profile.hermes_cli/config.pyinjects everyenv_varintoOPTIONAL_ENV_VARSso the setup wizard knows about it.hermes_cli/runtime_provider.pyreadsprofile.api_modeas a fallback when URL detection finds nothing.agent/model_metadata.pymaps hostname → provider viaprofile.get_hostname().agent/auxiliary_client.pyreadsprofile.default_aux_modelfirst before falling back to the legacy hardcoded dict.agent/transports/chat_completions.py::_build_kwargs_from_profile()invokesprofile.prepare_messages(),profile.build_extra_body(), andprofile.build_api_kwargs_extras()on every call.run_agent.pypassesprovider_profile=<ProviderProfile>so the transport takes the profile path instead of the legacy flag path.
Adding a provider
See plugins/model-providers/README.md — drop a new directory there (or
under $HERMES_HOME/plugins/model-providers/ for a private plugin).
Hooks you can override on ProviderProfile
| Hook | Purpose |
|---|---|
get_hostname() |
URL-based detection — default derives from base_url. |
prepare_messages(msgs) |
Provider-specific message preprocessing (Qwen normalises to list-of-parts, injects cache_control). |
build_extra_body(**ctx) |
Provider-specific extra_body (OpenRouter provider prefs, Gemini thinking_config). |
build_api_kwargs_extras(**ctx) |
(extra_body_additions, top_level_kwargs) — Kimi puts reasoning_effort top-level, Qwen splits enable_thinking/thinking_budget. |
supported_reasoning_efforts(model) |
Declared per-model reasoning-effort vocabulary for gateways that 400 on unknown levels (Ramp Router reads its live catalog). None = defer to transport defaults, () = model takes no reasoning params, tuple = clamp target. Must be cache-only — called on the request hot path. |
fetch_models(*, api_key) |
Live catalog fetch — default hits {models_url or base_url}/models with Bearer auth. Override for no-REST providers (Bedrock), OAuth catalogs (Anthropic), or public catalogs (OpenRouter). |
Configuration fields
Full reference in providers/base.py dataclass definition.