# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Keep llama-server API key out of argv and logs

## Open now

- 1 issue, 3 PRs open on GitHub.
- #137804: Local runtime supervisor logs llama-server API key in plain text (llama-server.log)
- PR #137808: fix(local_runtime): hand llama-server its api key by file, not argv
- PR #137812: fix(security): keep the llama-server API key out of argv and the spawn log
- PR #137813: fix(local-runtime): keep the llama-server API key off argv and out of its log

These members all concern the local runtime supervisor exposing the llama-server API key, via command-line arguments and the plain-text llama-server.log. Three are fix-titled changes proposing to pass the key by file or otherwise keep it off argv and out of the log, and one is an issue reporting the logging.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 3 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #137804: Local runtime supervisor logs llama-server API key in plain text (llama-server.log)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#137808: fix(local_runtime): hand llama-server its api key by file, not argv**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
  - files: `hermes_cli/local_runtime/supervisor.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_local_runtime.py`
- **#137812: fix(security): keep the llama-server API key out of argv and the spawn log**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
  - files: `hermes_cli/local_runtime/supervisor.py`, `package.json`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_local_runtime_api_key_hygiene.py`
- **#137813: fix(local-runtime): keep the llama-server API key off argv and out of its log**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
  - files: `hermes_cli/local_runtime/supervisor.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_local_runtime_api_key_argv.py`

## Fix status

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