Fallback Providers
Fallback Providers Hermes Agent has three layers of resilience that keep your sessions running when providers hit issues: 1. Credential pools — rotate across mu
Hermes Agent has three layers of resilience that keep your sessions running when providers hit issues: 1. Credential pools — rotate across multiple API keys for the same provider (tried first) 2. Primary model fallback — automatically switches to a different provider:model when your main model fails 3. …
What this page covers
- Primary Model Fallback
- Configuration
- Supported Providers
- Custom Endpoint Fallback
- When Fallback Triggers
- Examples
- Where Fallback Works
- Auxiliary Task Fallback
- Tasks with Independent Provider Resolution
- Auto-Detection Chain
- Configuring Auxiliary Providers
- Provider Options for Auxiliary Tasks
- Direct Endpoint Override
- Auxiliary Capacity-Error Fallback
- Optional: per-task fallback chain
- Provider quota errors that trigger fallback
- Context Compression Fallback
- Delegation Provider Override
- Cron Job Providers
- Summary
Section outline mirrored from the official Hermes Agent documentation. Follow any heading to read the complete text on the source site.
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