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Providers & Model Aliases

Set via hermes model (picker) or hermes setup. 35+ provider profiles ship as plugins under plugins/model-providers/; user plugins of the same name override. Full docs: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/integrations/providers

Providers

Provider Auth Key env var(s)
openrouter API key OPENROUTER_API_KEY
anthropic API key ANTHROPIC_API_KEY (also CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN)
nous OAuth device code hermes auth add nous (or NOUS_API_KEY)
openai-codex OAuth hermes auth add openai-codex
qwen-oauth OAuth hermes auth add qwen-oauth
minimax-oauth OAuth hermes auth add minimax-oauth
copilot Token COPILOT_GITHUB_TOKEN / GH_TOKEN (Copilot device flow — gh auth login tokens do NOT work)
copilot-acp External CLI Copilot CLI on PATH or COPILOT_CLI_PATH
gemini API key GOOGLE_API_KEY or GEMINI_API_KEY
xai API key XAI_API_KEY (SuperGrok OAuth also supported)
deepseek API key DEEPSEEK_API_KEY
zai (GLM) API key GLM_API_KEY / ZAI_API_KEY
minimax / minimax-cn API key MINIMAX_API_KEY / MINIMAX_CN_API_KEY
kimi-coding / -cn API key KIMI_API_KEY / KIMI_CN_API_KEY
alibaba (+coding-plan) API key DASHSCOPE_API_KEY / ALIBABA_CODING_PLAN_API_KEY
xiaomi API key XIAOMI_API_KEY
huggingface Token HF_TOKEN
fireworks / novita / nvidia / deepinfra / gmi / arcee / stepfun / upstage / kilocode / ai-gateway / opencode-zen / opencode-go / ollama-cloud API key <NAME>_API_KEY
bedrock / vertex / azure-foundry Cloud SDK / key AWS SDK creds / Vertex ADC / AZURE_FOUNDRY_API_KEY
custom Config model.base_url + model.api_key in config.yaml

Multiple credentials per provider pool and rotate automatically (hermes auth). Fallback chain when the primary fails: hermes fallback add|remove|list.

User-defined model aliases

Work with /model <name> in CLI and every gateway platform. Resolved by hermes_cli/model_switch.py::resolve_alias(); user aliases are checked BEFORE the built-in table, so a user sonnet/grok shadows the built-in.

# Full form
model_aliases:
  fav:
    model: claude-sonnet-4.6
    provider: anthropic
  local-qwen:
    model: qwen3.5:397b
    provider: custom
    base_url: "https://ollama.com/v1"

# Short form ("provider/model"), also via CLI:
#   hermes config set model.aliases.fav openrouter/anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
model:
  aliases:
    fav: openrouter/anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6

/model fav — session-scoped; add --global to persist as default.

Built-in aliases (catalog-resolved against the active provider): sonnet, opus, haiku, claude, gpt5, gpt, codex, o3, o4, gemini, deepseek, grok, llama, qwen, minimax, nemotron, kimi, glm, step, mimo, trinity.