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MCP probe timeout misclassified as auth failure

NousResearch/hermes-agent · cluster 119232 · apps/desktop

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3 open items. Fix attempted, not merged.

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1open issue
2open PRs
4items grouped
Known?
Yes. 4 related items grouped here, 0 issues already closed.
Fix event
No fix has been merged to main. 1 PR closed without merging; see the attempts below.
Tracker
The maintainers' tracker marks this unresolved. That is separate from the fix event.
Still open
1 issue and 2 PRs.

A bug where MCP server probe timeouts are incorrectly reported as authentication failures, likely due to regex matching OAuth-related wording in error messages. Multiple fixes address classifying auth vs. timeout failures more accurately.

Open issues1

  • Issue#119232[Bug]: Desktop MCP card reports "Needs authentication" for a no-auth server whenever the probe times out (auth regex matches Hermes' own "OAuth" wording)

Open PRs2

  • PR#119235fix(mcp): classify desktop probe auth failures structurally
  • PR#119240fix(desktop): stop MCP timeouts masquerading as auth failures

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: superseded by another PR 1

  • #119337 fix(mcp): a 401 is an auth refusal, and a timeout is not one · superseded by another PR → #119235, #119240
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  • Link evidence (structural links throughout): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
  • Pairwise link density 0.50: the share of item 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.

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