# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Headless and SSH OAuth auth flow improvements

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and PRs address problems with OAuth authentication in headless or SSH environments, including avoiding terminal browser launches, improving SSH tunnel hints, and adding fallback flows for non-interactive contexts.

## 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 #28115. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #28115 (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: `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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #26563: \[Bug\]: Supergrok auth doesn't work in headless mode

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#28115: fix(auth): copy-pasteable SSH tunnel hint with auto-detected user@host**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `hermes_cli/auth.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_auth_loopback_ssh_hint.py`
- **#27126: fix(auth): improve xAI OAuth SSH hint with visual header and auto-detected host**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#28115`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #28115 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-05-18`.