hermes-agent/providers/README.md
Teknium 9022804d78 feat(providers): make all 33 providers pluggable under plugins/model-providers/
Every provider profile is now a self-contained plugin under
plugins/model-providers/<name>/, mirroring the plugins/platforms/
pattern established for IRC and Teams. The ProviderProfile ABC
stays in providers/; the per-provider profile data moves out.

- plugins/model-providers/<name>/__init__.py calls register_provider()
- plugins/model-providers/<name>/plugin.yaml declares kind: model-provider
- providers/__init__.py._discover_providers() lazily scans bundled plugins
  then $HERMES_HOME/plugins/model-providers/<name>/ (user override path)
- User plugins with the same name override bundled ones (last-writer-wins
  in register_provider)
- Legacy providers/<name>.py layout still supported for back-compat with
  out-of-tree editable installs
- Hermes PluginManager: new kind=model-provider; skipped like memory
  plugins (providers/ discovery owns them); standalone plugins with
  register_provider+ProviderProfile in their __init__.py auto-coerce to
  this kind (same heuristic as memory providers)
- skip_names extended to include 'model-providers' so the general
  PluginManager doesn't double-scan the category
- 4 new tests in tests/providers/test_plugin_discovery.py covering
  bundled discovery, user override, and general-loader isolation
- Docs updated: website/docs/developer-guide/adding-providers.md,
  provider-runtime.md, providers/README.md, plugins/model-providers/README.md

No API break: auth.py / config.py / doctor.py / models.py / runtime_provider.py /
model_metadata.py / auxiliary_client.py / chat_completions.py / run_agent.py
all still consume providers via get_provider_profile() / list_providers() —
they just now see plugin-discovered entries instead of pkgutil-iterated ones.

Third parties can now drop a single directory into
~/.hermes/plugins/model-providers/<name>/ to add or override an inference
provider without touching the repo.
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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`. |
| `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.