# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Misclassified 429 quota errors as auth failures

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A bug where provider quota exhaustion (HTTP 429) during credential resolution is incorrectly reported as an authentication failure, along with related fix attempts to reclassify it correctly.

## 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 #117611. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #117611 (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-117611`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `1.00`: 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

- #117482: \[Bug\]: A provider quota outage (429) during credential resolution is reported and counted as an authentication failure

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#117611: fix(cli): a provider quota 429 during credential resolution reads as quota, not auth failure, and Kanban workers exit TEMPFAIL (#117482, salvage #117490)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `cli.py`, `hermes_cli/auth.py`, `hermes_cli/cli_agent_setup_mixin.py`, `hermes_cli/runtime_provider.py`, `tests/agent/test_grid_sweep_cli_tui_stream_diagnostics.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_cli_provider_resolution.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_single_query_exit_contract.py`, `tests/tui_gateway/test_tui_gateway_server.py`, `tui_gateway/server.py`
- **#117490: fix(cli): treat credential-resolution 429 as quota, not auth**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `265e68d784`, `#117611`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #117611 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-20`.