Hermes · Fallback Providers

Primary down? Hermes switches to a backup automatically, mid-chat, without dropping your conversation.

A fallback is a backup provider:model. When your main one starts failing, Hermes switches to it automatically, mid-session, and the switch is invisible: history, tool calls, and context all carry over, so the agent continues where it left off. It triggers on the failures that matter, rate limits (429) and server errors (5xx) after retries, and auth (401/403) or not-found (404) errors immediately. It's per-turn: every new message tries your primary first, so one blip doesn't pin you to the backup. Set it up with hermes fallback (interactive add/list/remove, reuses the model picker) or a fallback_providers: list in config. Covers your CLI and messaging gateway; subagents and cron run on a fixed provider.