feat: improve Hermes provider support

src/components/chat/hooks/useChatComposerState.ts

@@ -174,7 +174,6 @@ export function useChatComposerState({
   codexModel,
   geminiModel,
   opencodeModel,
-  hermesModel,
   isLoading,
   canAbortSession,
   tokenBudget,
@@ -339,7 +338,7 @@ export function useChatComposerState({
                 : provider === 'opencode'
                   ? opencodeModel
                   : provider === 'hermes'
-                    ? (hermesModel === '__hermes_configured_model__' ? undefined : hermesModel)
+                    ? undefined
                   : claudeModel,
           tokenUsage: tokenBudget,
         };
@@ -395,7 +394,6 @@ export function useChatComposerState({
       cursorModel,
       geminiModel,
       opencodeModel,
-      hermesModel,
       handleBuiltInCommand,
       handleCustomCommand,
       input,
@@ -737,7 +735,7 @@ export function useChatComposerState({
               : provider === 'opencode'
                 ? opencodeModel
                 : provider === 'hermes'
-                  ? (hermesModel === '__hermes_configured_model__' ? undefined : hermesModel)
+                  ? undefined
                 : claudeModel;
 
       // One message shape for every provider. The backend resolves the
@@ -783,7 +781,6 @@ export function useChatComposerState({
       executeCommand,
       geminiModel,
       opencodeModel,
-      hermesModel,
       isLoading,
       onSessionProcessing,
       onSessionEstablished,

src/components/chat/hooks/useChatProviderState.ts

@@ -417,6 +417,15 @@ export function useChatProviderState({ selectedSession, selectedProject }: UseCh
     model: string,
     sessionId?: string | null,
   ) => {
+    if (targetProvider === 'hermes') {
+      setStoredProviderModel(targetProvider, model);
+      return {
+        scope: 'default' as const,
+        changed: false,
+        model,
+      };
+    }
+
     const normalizedSessionId = typeof sessionId === 'string' ? sessionId.trim() : '';
     if (!normalizedSessionId) {
       setStoredProviderModel(targetProvider, model);

src/components/chat/view/subcomponents/ProviderSelectionEmptyState.tsx

@@ -289,15 +289,11 @@ export default function ProviderSelectionEmptyState({
                           >
                             <div className="min-w-0 flex-1">
                               <div className="truncate">{model.label}</div>
-                              {/* 
-                              // * Temporarly commented out because the description of models from claude 
-                              // * was a bit inconsistent.  Will return it back when it becomes more consistent.
-                              */}
-                              {/* {model.description && (
+                              {model.description && (
                                 <div className="truncate text-xs text-muted-foreground">
                                   {model.description}
                                 </div>
-                              )} */}
+                              )}
                             </div>
                             {isSelected && (
                               <Check className="ml-auto h-4 w-4 shrink-0 text-primary" />
@@ -332,7 +328,7 @@ export default function ProviderSelectionEmptyState({
                   defaultValue: "Ready with OpenCode {{model}}",
                 }),
                 hermes: t("providerSelection.readyPrompt.hermes", {
-                  model: hermesModel,
+                  model: provider === "hermes" ? currentModelLabel : hermesModel,
                   defaultValue: "Ready with Hermes {{model}}",
                 }),
               }[provider]