# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Auxiliary credential-pool rotation and 401 retry key handling

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #122601: \[Bug\]: auxiliary credential-pool recovery quarantines the healthy current entry after an unmatched 401
- PR #140660: fix(aux): send the rotated pool key on the post-rotation retry

The members concern the auxiliary credential pool: one bug report describes a healthy current entry being quarantined after an unmatched 401, and the three pull requests propose changes to which key is sent on the post-rotation retry and which key a retry 401 is attributed to. Two of the pull request titles are identical.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Open related issues

- #122601: \[Bug\]: auxiliary credential-pool recovery quarantines the healthy current entry after an unmatched 401

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#123394: fix(aux): attribute ladder retry 401 to the stale key instead of healthy current (fixes #122601)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
- **#140639: fix(aux): send the rotated pool key on the post-rotation retry**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#140660`
- **#140660: fix(aux): send the rotated pool key on the post-rotation retry**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `18c525b669`, `b7978ded26`, `#117943`
  - files: `agent/auxiliary_client.py`, `agent/auxiliary_key_rotation.py`, `tests/agent/test_auxiliary_pool_rotation_retry_key.py`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `agent`