# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Kanban comment author identity enforcement scope

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #102693: kanban comment author is forgeable on CLI and dashboard API surfaces -- restrict human-vocabulary authors to session-authenticated surfaces
- PR #102716: fix(kanban): enforce server-stamped identity on CLI and dashboard comment authors (#102693)

These items concern a vulnerability where human-readable author strings on kanban comments can be forged via CLI and dashboard API surfaces. The work involves restricting such author representations to session-authenticated contexts only.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Open related issues

- #102693: kanban comment author is forgeable on CLI and dashboard API surfaces -- restrict human-vocabulary authors to session-authenticated surfaces

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#102716: fix(kanban): enforce server-stamped identity on CLI and dashboard comment authors (#102693)**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `eda69219dbbedf44d7b929c025fa51ee42b81ee9`, `63279301bcbdc185c1b07b98a9312eb0c862f26d`, `#102693`, `#102734`
  - files: `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `hermes_cli/kanban.py`, `hermes_cli/kanban_comments.py`, `plugins/kanban/dashboard/plugin_api.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_comment_author_forgery.py`
- **#102734: kanban: restrict human-vocabulary author strings to dashboard-only**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#102716`, `#102693`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `hermes_cli`