# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Making /api/auth/providers publicly accessible

## Open now

- 0 issues, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- PR #134364: fix(dashboard-auth): list /api/auth/providers in PUBLIC_API_PATHS

Multiple fixes and a related issue focused on ensuring the /api/auth/providers endpoint is reachable without authentication, across both CLI configuration and dashboard auth layers. The issue describes pre-login discovery being blocked by a token gate returning 401.

## TL;DR

- 7 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 5 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.29`: 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

- #134345: Loopback token gate 401s /api/auth/providers, breaking native clients' pre-login discovery (Conduit)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#134360: fix(dashboard-auth): make /api/auth/providers public under the legacy gate too**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#134364`
- **#134364: fix(dashboard-auth): list /api/auth/providers in PUBLIC_API_PATHS**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `d674e00c10`, `#134360`
  - files: `hermes_cli/dashboard_auth/middleware.py`, `hermes_cli/dashboard_auth/public_paths.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_dashboard_auth_middleware.py`
- **#134440: fix(cli): add /api/auth/providers to dashboard public paths**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
- **#134444: fix(cli): add /api/auth/providers to dashboard public paths**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
- **#134447: fix(cli): add /api/auth/providers to dashboard public paths**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
- **#134457: fix(cli): add /api/auth/providers to dashboard public paths**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`

## Fix status

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