# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Alibaba CN provider duplicate/API key separation fix

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and PRs concern a bug where Alibaba Cloud's international and CN (Coding Plan) provider picker entries shared an API key or appeared as duplicates. The work involves giving the CN variant its own environment variable and ensuring the two rows behave independently.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #101281. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #101281 (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-101281`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #101122: Bug: Duplicate "Alibaba Cloud (Coding Plan)" entries in provider picker

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#101281: fix(providers): one Alibaba key no longer lights both intl and CN picker rows (#101122, salvage #101163)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `hermes_cli/model_switch.py`, `plugins/model-providers/alibaba-coding-plan/__init__.py`, `plugins/model-providers/alibaba/__init__.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_alibaba_coding_plan_cn_provider_listing.py`, `website/docs/integrations/providers.md`, `website/docs/reference/environment-variables.md`
- **#101163: fix(providers): give alibaba-coding-plan-cn its own API key env var**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `ab1f81ce04`, `#101281`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #101281 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-02`.