# NousResearch/hermes-agent · fail fast on bare custom provider missing credentials

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and PRs address cases where a bare 'custom' provider placeholder resolves without credentials, improving early error reporting to include the provider name rather than a late or unhelpful message. Changes span runtime and CLI layers.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #112243. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #112243 (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-112243`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #111741: resolve_runtime_provider should fail fast when a bare "custom" placeholder resolves without credentials (error lacks provider name)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#112243: fix(runtime): bare custom provider fails fast with the provider name instead of a late 'No LLM provider configured' (#111741, salvage #111744)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/auxiliary_client.py`, `hermes_cli/runtime_provider.py`, `tests/agent/test_auxiliary_client.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_runtime_provider_resolution.py`
- **#111744: fix(runtime): fail fast for bare custom credentials**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `f55d4f6747`, `#112243`
- **#111750: fix(cli): fail fast when a bare custom request resolves without credentials**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#111744`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #112243 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-16`.