# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Retry and fallback for rate-limited update fetches

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #105857: hermes update has no retry or fallback for persistent repo-scoped HTTP 429
- PR #105870: fix(update): retry repo-scoped 429 fetches and fall back to guarded ZIP update
- PR #119603: fix(update): retry a rate-limited GitHub fetch with the user's existing credential (#105857)

These issues and PRs address missing retry and fallback behavior when GitHub update fetches return HTTP 429 (rate-limited) responses, particularly for repo-scoped requests. Proposed fixes involve bounded retries with existing credentials and degrading to an alternative update path such as a ZIP-based fallback.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 2 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 0 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #105857: hermes update has no retry or fallback for persistent repo-scoped HTTP 429

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#105870: fix(update): retry repo-scoped 429 fetches and fall back to guarded ZIP update**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#105864`, `#105857`, `#87304`, `#105864`
  - files: `hermes_cli/update_cmd.py`, `hermes_cli/update_cmd_git.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_fetch_throttle_recovery.py`
- **#119603: fix(update): retry a rate-limited GitHub fetch with the user's existing credential (#105857)**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `6a92a2aa49`, `baab4808d0`, `#105857`, `#114846`
  - files: `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `hermes_cli/git_credentials.py`, `hermes_cli/source_releases.py`, `hermes_cli/update_cmd.py`, `hermes_cli/update_cmd_check.py`, `hermes_cli/update_cmd_git.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_stable_lookup_rate_limit_credential.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_fetch_rate_limit_credential.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_upstream_prompt_noninteractive.py`

## Fix status

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