# NousResearch/hermes-agent · MCP multiplexer profile and API server fixes

## Open now

- 0 issues, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- PR #100466: fix(profiles): pin secondary api_server off under multiplex create

These items address bugs and behavior around multiplexed profiles, including API server pinning, MCP server naming, start/status/API_SERVER_KEY handling, and how Bot Mode agents interact with the default multiplexer.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 0 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #108352. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #108352 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-108352`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.67`: the share of member pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. `1.00` means every pair is linked.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #100397: Bot Mode New Agent can clone API-server listener intent and be skipped by the default multiplexer

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#108352: fix(gateway,mcp): multiplexed profiles get their own same-named MCP servers, and start/status/API_SERVER_KEY honour the live multiplexer (#106005, #91654, #100397; salvage #99594/#104534)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `gateway/config_env.py`, `gateway/status.py`, `hermes_cli/cron.py`, `hermes_cli/gateway.py`, `hermes_cli/gateway_multiplex_served.py`, `hermes_cli/status.py`, `hermes_cli/subcommands/gateway.py`, `hermes_cli/web_routers/ops.py`, `tests/gateway/test_multiplex_secondary_port_binding_env.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_gateway_multiplex_served_record.py`, `tests/test_toolsets.py`, `tests/tools/test_mcp_multiplex_connection_keys.py`, `tools/mcp_tool.py`, `tools/mcp_tool_discovery.py`, `tools/mcp_tool_handlers.py`, `tools/mcp_tool_health.py`, `tools/mcp_tool_lifecycle.py`, `tools/mcp_tool_loop.py`, `tools/mcp_tool_registration.py`, `tools/mcp_tool_scope.py` (+4 more)
- **#100466: fix(profiles): pin secondary api_server off under multiplex create**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `hermes_cli/profiles.py`, `hermes_cli/web_routers/profiles.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_profiles_multiplex_create_pin.py`, `tests/tui_gateway/test_profiles_create_multiplex_pin.py`, `tui_gateway/methods_profiles.py`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #108352 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-11`.
- Subsystem: `hermes_cli`