# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Credential pool key isolation for shared-URL providers

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #124527: \[Bug\]: A bare \`custom\` model and a named provider on the same base_url use each other's key; openrouter.ai ignores the configured model key
- PR #124528: fix(credential-pool): keep a bare-custom model and a same-URL provider on their own keys

These items concern a bug where a bare custom model and a named provider sharing the same base URL could incorrectly use each other's API keys, and related fixes to bind credentials to their correct owners in the credential pool.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 1 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.67`: 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.

## Open related issues

- #124527: \[Bug\]: A bare \`custom\` model and a named provider on the same base_url use each other's key; openrouter.ai ignores the configured model key

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#124528: fix(credential-pool): keep a bare-custom model and a same-URL provider on their own keys**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#124527`, `#124578`
  - files: `agent/credential_pool.py`, `hermes_cli/runtime_provider.py`, `hermes_cli/runtime_provider_backends.py`, `hermes_cli/runtime_provider_custom.py`, `tests/agent/test_credential_pool.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_bare_custom_openrouter_config_key.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_custom_pool_named_provider_key_isolation.py`
- **#124578: fix(credential-pool): bind shared custom endpoints to runtime owners (#124527)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `ec07d9ae05dc0243ce7e785007b8affd72157d1a`, `#124527`, `#124528`

## Fix status

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