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hermes-agent/providers
kshitijk4poor 3a6406137d fix(child-env): per-profile plugin secrets, fail-closed declaration scans, dashboard auth in Tier 1
Review follow-ups on the declared-secret policy:

- A profile's user-installed platform plugins declared secrets into
  one process-wide set, read from the launch home at import. Under
  multiplex that stripped profile B's same-named user variable and
  missed profile A's own declarations. Bundled manifests stay
  process-wide; user manifests are now read per bound home, cached
  until that home's plugin dirs change, and are Tier 1 for that
  profile only.
- The declaration scans no longer fail open. A registry error is no
  longer swallowed into an empty set, non-string required_env entries
  are skipped rather than breaking the set, and a manifest that
  cannot be read raises instead of vanishing from the policy. A
  malformed manifest still declares nothing.
- A plugin manifest can no longer reclassify a core-declared name
  such as OPENAI_API_KEY; the same rule the config form applies.
- The dashboard basic-auth password and signing secret, the OIDC
  client secret and the drain bearer move to Tier 1. Credentialed
  CLIs (claude, codex) no longer receive them.
- openviking-server starts from served_profile_child_env, so it gets
  the bound profile's provider keys, never the launch profile's.
  With no bound profile under multiplex the start is refused.
- NOUS_API_KEY and QWEN_API_KEY are listed statically. Discovering
  provider plugins while the policy module imported re-mirrored them
  over a plugin's own auth registry entry
  (tests/providers/test_auth_registry_import_order.py).
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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.py extends PROVIDER_REGISTRY with every api-key profile it sees (skipping copilot, kimi-coding, kimi-coding-cn, zai, openrouter, custom — those need bespoke token resolution).
  • hermes_cli/models.py extends CANONICAL_PROVIDERS and calls profile.fetch_models() inside provider_model_ids().
  • hermes_cli/doctor.py adds a /models health check for each auth_type="api_key" profile.
  • hermes_cli/config.py injects every env_var into OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS so the setup wizard knows about it.
  • hermes_cli/runtime_provider.py reads profile.api_mode as a fallback when URL detection finds nothing.
  • agent/model_metadata.py maps hostname → provider via profile.get_hostname().
  • agent/auxiliary_client.py reads profile.default_aux_model first before falling back to the legacy hardcoded dict.
  • agent/transports/chat_completions.py::_build_kwargs_from_profile() invokes profile.prepare_messages(), profile.build_extra_body(), and profile.build_api_kwargs_extras() on every call.
  • run_agent.py passes provider_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.