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From: Teknium <127238744+teknium1@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 10 May 2026 12:12:55 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix(xai): drop models being retired May 15, 2026 from pickers
 (#23291)
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xAI is retiring grok-4, grok-4-0709, grok-4-fast{,-reasoning,-non-reasoning},
grok-4-1-fast{,-reasoning,-non-reasoning}, and grok-code-fast-1 on
May 15, 2026 at 12:00 PT. Remove them from the static fallbacks so the
`hermes model` picker, gateway /model picker, and setup wizard stop
auto-suggesting models that will be dead in days.

- _XAI_STATIC_FALLBACK in hermes_cli/models.py now lists only grok-4.20-*
  and grok-4.3 (the live replacements).
- copilot lists in hermes_cli/models.py and hermes_cli/setup.py drop
  grok-code-fast-1 (Copilot proxies it through xAI, so the upstream
  retirement breaks it there too).

Old configs that already reference retired IDs keep working until xAI
flips the switch — context-length lookups in agent/model_metadata.py and
the cache-affinity-header logic in provider_profiles still recognise the
old names. The cleanup here is purely about not advertising them to new
users.

Closes #23278.

Source: https://docs.x.ai/developers/migration/may-15-retirement
---
 hermes_cli/models.py | 13 ++++++-------
 hermes_cli/setup.py  |  1 -
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hermes_cli/models.py b/hermes_cli/models.py
index 1dc8a7aca66..cf693ae28b4 100644
--- a/hermes_cli/models.py
+++ b/hermes_cli/models.py
@@ -110,16 +110,16 @@ def _codex_curated_models() -> list[str]:
 # $HERMES_HOME/models_dev_cache.json as of 2026-04-28. Whenever xAI renames
 # or retires a model, the disk cache picks it up on the next refresh and the
 # fallback here only matters until that refresh lands.
+#
+# Models retired by xAI on May 15, 2026 are excluded — see
+# https://docs.x.ai/developers/migration/may-15-retirement
+# (grok-4, grok-4-0709, grok-4-fast{,-reasoning,-non-reasoning},
+#  grok-4-1-fast{,-reasoning,-non-reasoning}, grok-code-fast-1 → grok-4.3).
 _XAI_STATIC_FALLBACK: list[str] = [
     "grok-4.20-0309-reasoning",
     "grok-4.20-0309-non-reasoning",
     "grok-4.20-multi-agent-0309",
-    "grok-4-1-fast",
-    "grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning",
-    "grok-4-fast",
-    "grok-4-fast-non-reasoning",
-    "grok-4",
-    "grok-code-fast-1",
+    "grok-4.3",
 ]
 
 
@@ -210,7 +210,6 @@ _PROVIDER_MODELS: dict[str, list[str]] = {
         "gemini-3-pro-preview",
         "gemini-3-flash-preview",
         "gemini-2.5-pro",
-        "grok-code-fast-1",
     ],
     "gemini": [
         "gemini-3.1-pro-preview",
diff --git a/hermes_cli/setup.py b/hermes_cli/setup.py
index ad5d80b921f..534d23546e9 100644
--- a/hermes_cli/setup.py
+++ b/hermes_cli/setup.py
@@ -89,7 +89,6 @@ _DEFAULT_PROVIDER_MODELS = {
         "claude-sonnet-4.5",
         "claude-haiku-4.5",
         "gemini-2.5-pro",
-        "grok-code-fast-1",
     ],
     "gemini": [
         "gemini-3.1-pro-preview", "gemini-3-pro-preview",