# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Credential pool exhaustion backoff fix

## Open now

- 1 issue, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #15296: Credential pool: no exponential backoff on repeated exhaustion — flat TTL causes 429 retry loops

These members address a bug where repeated credential pool exhaustion used a flat TTL instead of exponential backoff, causing 429 retry loops. They track the problem report and associated fix.

## TL;DR

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #15296: Credential pool: no exponential backoff on repeated exhaustion — flat TTL causes 429 retry loops

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#15455: fix(credential-pool): exponential backoff on repeated exhaustion (#15296)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `stale_abandoned`; implication `active`
- **#73750: fix(credential-pool): back off repeated exhaustion**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#43856`
- **#74282: fix(credential-pool): back off repeated exhaustion**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#43856`, `#73750`

## Fix status

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