# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Local endpoints wrongly marked unhealthy on cloud billing errors

## Open now

- 0 issues, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- PR #104273: fix(agent): keep local custom endpoints available after cloud billing failures

These issues and fixes address a bug where a cloud provider's billing failure incorrectly causes co-registered local endpoints to be marked unhealthy for an extended period. The work focuses on ensuring local fallback endpoints remain available and unaffected by cloud-side billing errors.

## 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 #104945. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #104945 (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-104945`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #104260: A cloud provider's billing error marks co-registered LOCAL endpoints unhealthy for 600s

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#104945: fix: healthy local fallbacks survive cloud billing failures (#104260)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/auxiliary_client.py`, `agent/auxiliary_health.py`, `agent/backend_identity.py`, `evals/provider_fallback/probe_104260.py`, `tests/agent/test_auxiliary_client.py`, `tests/agent/test_backend_identity.py`, `tests/run_agent/test_provider_parity.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/fallback-providers.md`
- **#104273: fix(agent): keep local custom endpoints available after cloud billing failures**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#104273`
  - files: `agent/auxiliary_client.py`, `agent/backend_identity.py`, `tests/agent/test_auxiliary_client.py`, `tests/agent/test_backend_identity.py`, `tests/run_agent/test_provider_parity.py`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #104945 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-07`.
- Subsystem: `agent`