hermes - 💡(How to fix) Fix [Bug]: Data privacy

Bug Description

If I have the Nous Portal subscription, which uses OpenRouter under the hood, how can I ensure that I ONLY use model providers with zero data retention?

It seems clear how to do this if you're using OpenRouter as your provider directly, but it's not clear how to do this if Nous Portal is your provider.

If the expectation is that the OpenRouter provider_routing configuration will just pass through to a Nous Portal subscription, then this is a bug because that doesn't work. I am currently testing the following configuration. I SHOULD NOT be able to access this model, because it clearly states that it logs data, however, I am able to access this model.

Relevant part of ~/.hermes/config.yaml:

model:
  default: openrouter/owl-alpha
  provider: nous
  base_url: https://inference-api.nousresearch.com/v1
provider_routing:
  sort: "price"           # How to rank providers
  only: []                # Whitelist: only use these providers
  ignore:              # Blacklist: never use these providers
    - "Stealth"
  order: []               # Explicit provider priority order
  require_parameters: false  # Only use providers that support all parameters
  data_collection: "deny"   # Control data collection ("allow" or "deny")

Separately, the term and conditions state, "Nous Research may use Client Data in an aggregated or anonymized format for research, educational and other similar purposes." Does this mean Nous is logging data?

Steps to Reproduce

1. Obtain a Nous Portal subscription.
2. Set your model provider to openrouter/owl-alpha
3. Add the provider_routing configuration above to your ~/.hermes/config.yaml
4. Type hermes and then have a conversation with openrouter/owl-alpha

Expected Behavior

I am expecting the model interaction with openrouter/owl-alpha to fail.

Actual Behavior

I am able to have a conversation with openrouter/owl-alpha.

Affected Component

CLI (interactive chat)

Messaging Platform (if gateway-related)

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Debug Report

Too much personal information in these logs.

Operating System

macOS 15.7

Python Version

3.14.2

Hermes Version

v0.14.0

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Root Cause Analysis (optional)

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Proposed Fix (optional)

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Are you willing to submit a PR for this?

• I'd like to fix this myself and submit a PR