Hermes Chutes Provider v0.1.4

Highlights

• Hardened the live Chutes catalog probe for older Hermes hosts and malformed catalog entries.
• Preserved fail-soft fallback routing through default:latency and default:throughput.
• Added a self-contained source distribution with license and notice files.
• Expanded project-specific contributor and agent documentation.
• Added automated version and release-date consistency checks.

Validation

• Offline contract suite passed on Python 3.11, 3.12, and 3.13.
• Hermes upstream integration passed.
• CodeQL passed.
• Wheel entry-point installation smoke test passed.
• Wheel SHA-256: c5efec7d1f1fdc69133fac8ee1268151ebce5fe2f718b8b4b99ce5cfb625755b
• Source distribution SHA-256: 1cedcd00ca923afc7491f89ccfb877f92b183e42b7fc93362fdcb516bc1f39c9

Distribution remains GitHub Releases only; this project is not published to PyPI.

v0.1.3

Licensing and governance alignment release.

• Align copyright and package author metadata with Michael Gasperini (Mikesoft).
• Clarify the project's independent, unofficial relationship with Chutes.
• Include LICENSE and NOTICE in built distributions.
• Add contribution, security, conduct, and pull-request guidance.

v0.1.2

Provider hardening release.

• Filter the live Chutes catalog to models advertising tool calling.
• Keep default:latency and default:throughput available without pinning concrete models.
• Add a forward-compatible live metadata hook for Hermes context resolution.
• Add pinned Hermes integration and wheel build coverage to CI.
• Correct provider alias guidance and Windows PowerShell 5.1 installation.

v0.1.1

Documentation patch.

• Update the Chutes toolkit reference to the maintained Veightor repository.
• Keep the standalone provider's live-catalog and dynamic-routing behavior unchanged.

v0.1.0

Initial standalone Chutes model-provider plugin for Hermes Agent.

• Install as a Hermes user-directory model-provider plugin.
• Use the Chutes live model catalog and routing aliases; no static model defaults are shipped.
• Support the chutes, chutes-ai, and chutesai provider names.