# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Profile secret isolation fixes in desktop cron

## Open now

- 0 issues, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- PR #107777: fix(tools): hosted OCR resolves FIRECRAWL_API_KEY through the profile secret scope

These issues and PRs address credential leakage between profiles in the desktop cron/ticker environment, where one profile's secrets could incorrectly bleed into another profile's process environment. Fixes span OCR API key resolution and cron launch-profile secret scoping.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #111187. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #111187 (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-111187`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #107692: Desktop cron ticker copies a secondary profile's .env into the shared process environment (credential variant of #102769)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#111187: Routed cron fires in the desktop backend run under multiplex semantics, so launch-profile secrets never reach another profile's child (#107692, salvage #107695)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/secret_scope.py`, `cron/scheduler.py`, `cron/scheduler_provider.py`, `cron/scheduler_script.py`, `hermes_cli/env_loader.py`, `hermes_cli/plugins.py`, `tests/cron/test_cron_multiplex_desktop_ticker_scope.py`, `tests/cron/test_cron_no_agent.py`, `tests/cron/test_restart_safe_worker.py`, `tools/environments/local.py`
- **#107695: fix(cron): desktop ticker no longer copies a secondary profile's .env into the shared process env**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `f5f88d5058`, `b9271bcb34`
- **#107777: fix(tools): hosted OCR resolves FIRECRAWL_API_KEY through the profile secret scope**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_read_extract_secret_scope.py`, `tools/read_extract.py`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #111187 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-15`.
- Subsystem: `agent`