# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Authenticate desktop update-check API calls to GitHub

## Open now

- 0 issues, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- PR #108809: fix(desktop): authenticate passive update-check API calls when credentials resolve
- PR #112632: fix(desktop): authenticate the update check's api.github.com calls

These items address unauthenticated api.github.com requests made during desktop update checks, which can trigger 403 rate-limit errors for users on shared or datacenter IPs. The proposed and implemented fixes involve passing GitHub credentials with those requests.

## TL;DR

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #108804: Desktop update check calls api.github.com anonymously — persistent 403 rate-limit for users behind shared/datacenter IPs (suggest reusing skills-hub GitHubAuth)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#108809: fix(desktop): authenticate passive update-check API calls when credentials resolve**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
  - files: `apps/desktop/electron/main.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/update-api-check.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/update-api-check.ts`
- **#112632: fix(desktop): authenticate the update check's api.github.com calls**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `4baab2a6a64f`, `#112616`
  - files: `apps/desktop/electron/main.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/update-api-check.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/update-api-check.ts`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`