# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Fix API key warnings for no-key-required providers

## Open now

- 1 issue, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #20815: fix: dashboard shows API key warning for local providers with 'no-key-required'

These changes address incorrect API key warnings being shown for local providers that use 'no-key-required', and ensure this value is treated as a valid credential in the TUI credential probe logic.

## TL;DR

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #20815: fix: dashboard shows API key warning for local providers with 'no-key-required'

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#20835: fix(tui): treat 'no-key-required' as valid credential in _probe_credentials**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
- **#20937: fix: dashboard shows API key warning for local providers with 'no-key-required'**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#20835`

## Fix status

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