# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Codex credential pool rotation on soft failure handling

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a bug where soft failures (\`status=failed\`) from the Responses API bypass credential pool rotation, along with fixes to ensure rotation occurs before provider fallback.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #115763. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #115763 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-115763`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #24159: \[Bug\] Codex Responses API soft failures (status=failed) bypass credential pool rotation

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#115763: fix(codex): usage-limit soft failures rotate the credential pool before provider fallback (#24159, salvage #24173)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/turn_recovery.py`, `agent/turn_response_check.py`, `tests/agent/test_codex_soft_failure_pool_rotation.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/credential-pools.md`
- **#24173: fix(codex): credential pool rotation on Responses API soft failures**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `438d2f061ab2`, `#115763`, `#24159`, `#24173`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #115763 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-19`.
- Subsystem: `agent`