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An unset agent.reasoning_effort already resolves to medium on the Nous Portal,
OpenRouter, AI Gateway and Copilot routes (each profile fills it in
build_api_kwargs_extras). The custom / OpenAI-compatible profile — every
`providers.<name>` block and `--provider custom` — omitted the field instead,
so the endpoint's own default applied; for moonshotai/kimi-k3 that is `max`:
3x the reasoning tokens and ~3x the latency of medium, measured live.
The default is resolved at request time in _reasoning_config_for_wire via
ProviderProfile.default_reasoning_config (the custom profile answers medium),
so it is recorded as what actually went out and the reasoning-rejection
ladder keeps working: a 400 on the field turns the rest of the session back
to "omit". It never touches an explicit effort (low stays low, none stays
none), stays off non chat-completions transports (the Anthropic adapter's
unset = no thinking kwargs stands), off models the catalog or model_overrides
mark supports_reasoning: false, and off local Ollama models pulled without
the thinking capability. Auxiliary calls are untouched: they hand the profile
reasoning_config=None directly, which still omits the field.
Live wire capture (token-injecting proxy, providers.probe -> kimi-k3):
before req_reasoning: {}
after req_reasoning: {'reasoning_effort': 'medium'}
agent.reasoning_effort: low -> {'reasoning_effort': 'low'} (unchanged)
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
-
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) -
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.