# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Named profiles silently inheriting root credentials

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A bug where named profiles with no credentials silently fall back to and mutate the root profile's keys and tokens. The cluster covers the bug report and two related fix attempts addressing credential isolation and fallback behavior for named profiles.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #113425. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #113425 (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-113425`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #111724: \[Bug\]: a named profile with no credentials silently inherits the root profile's keys and OAuth tokens (and writes refreshed tokens back to root) — there is no way to make a profile fail closed

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#113425: fix(auth): named profiles no longer inherit the root profile's credentials (#111724, supersedes #109043)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/agent_init.py`, `agent/anthropic_credentials.py`, `agent/credential_pool.py`, `agent/credential_pool_admin.py`, `apps/desktop/src/components/onboarding-chat/setup-profile.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/create-dialog.tsx`, `apps/shared/src/gateway-contract.generated.ts`, `apps/shared/src/gateway-contract.openrpc.json`, `hermes_cli/AGENTS.md`, `hermes_cli/anon_auth.py`, `hermes_cli/auth.py`, `hermes_cli/auth_codex.py`, `hermes_cli/auth_commands.py`, `hermes_cli/auth_oauth_grants.py`, `hermes_cli/auth_xai.py`, `hermes_cli/profile_credential_audit.py`, `hermes_cli/profiles.py`, `hermes_cli/update_cmd_maint.py`, `tests/agent/test_anthropic_oauth_stress.py`, `tests/agent/test_credential_pool_oauth_writethrough.py` (+14 more)
- **#109043: fix(auth): let profiles disable global credential fallback (salvage #72816)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `8c8003f80b`, `#113425`, `#72816`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #113425 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-16`.