Google Gemini
Hermes Agent supports Google Gemini as a native provider using the Google AI Studio / Gemini API — not the OpenAI compatible endpoint. This lets Hermes translat
Hermes Agent supports Google Gemini as a native provider using the Google AI Studio / Gemini API — not the OpenAI-compatible endpoint. This lets Hermes translate its internal OpenAI-shaped message and tool loop into Gemini's native API while preserving tool calling, streaming, multimodal inputs, and Gemini-specific response metadata. …
What this page covers
- Prerequisites
- Quick Start
- Configuration
- Native Gemini API
- Prefer the Native Endpoint
- OAuth Provider
- Available Models
- Latest Aliases
- Gemma via the Gemini API
- Switching Models Mid-Session
- Diagnostics
- Gateway (Messaging Platforms)
- Troubleshooting
- "Gemini native client requires an API key"
- "This Google API key is on the free tier"
- "404 model not found"
- Gemma model is not shown in hermes model
- "429 quota exceeded" on Gemma
- OpenAI-compatible endpoint is configured
- OAuth login warning
- Tool calling fails with schema errors
- Related
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