# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Auxiliary clients missing per-provider extra_headers support

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #127823: \[Bug\]: auxiliary clients ignore endpoint-matched providers.<name>.extra_headers for built-in providers (main client applies them)
- PR #90807: fix(aux): apply per-provider extra_headers on auxiliary clients
- PR #127905: fix(aux): apply endpoint-matched provider extra_headers on aux OpenAI clients

These issues and fixes concern auxiliary clients not applying endpoint-matched provider extra_headers, a behavior that the main client handles correctly. The work focuses on bringing auxiliary OpenAI client header handling in line with the main client.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 2 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 0 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #127823: \[Bug\]: auxiliary clients ignore endpoint-matched providers.<name>.extra_headers for built-in providers (main client applies them)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#90807: fix(aux): apply per-provider extra_headers on auxiliary clients**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#61346`, `#84223`, `#88474`
  - files: `agent/auxiliary_client.py`, `tests/agent/test_auxiliary_provider_extra_headers.py`
- **#127905: fix(aux): apply endpoint-matched provider extra_headers on aux OpenAI clients**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `c3798a7d47`, `c3798a7d47`
  - files: `agent/auxiliary_client.py`, `tests/agent/test_auxiliary_user_default_headers.py`

## Fix status

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