# NousResearch/hermes-agent · CLI API key validation and prompt error handling

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address CLI behavior around API key validation: allowing empty keys for local endpoints, surfacing clearer errors for placeholder key values, and handling unexpected EOF during interactive confirmation prompts.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 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: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-3101`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #2565: \[Bug\]: Secret prohibited values for api keys causes uwarranted error messages and blocks usage

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#2566: fix(cli): allow empty API key for local endpoints instead of blocking with error**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`
- **#2730: fix(auth): show actionable error when API key is a placeholder value**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#2565`
- **#3101: fix(cli): handle EOFError in sessions delete/prune confirmation prompts**. merged to main
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `hermes_cli/main.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_sessions_delete.py`

## Fix status

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