# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Misclassified content-moderation 400 error handling

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A provider 400 error with 'Content Exists Risk' is being incorrectly classified as a malformed request rather than a content-policy block, causing broken fallback behavior in bot-mode and subagents. These items address detecting and correctly routing that specific error code.

## 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 #116670. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #116670 (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-116670`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #115218: \[Bug\]: Provider content-moderation 400 (\`Content Exists Risk\`) has no fallback path — bot-mode delivery fails closed, subagents are killed, and the message says "malformed"

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#116670: fix(agent): provider content-moderation 400 (Content Exists Risk) is reported as a safety-filter refusal, not a malformed request (#115218, salvage #115233)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/error_classifier.py`, `tests/agent/test_error_classifier.py`
- **#115233: fix(agent): classify CommandCode "Content Exists Risk" 400 as a content-policy block**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `d4f88f39eef`, `#116670`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #116670 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-20`.