# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Surface API rate limit errors with human-readable details

## Open now

- 1 issue, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #50460: \[Feature\]: Convert API errors to human readable

These issues and PRs focus on improving how rate limit (HTTP 429) and other API errors are communicated to users, including surfacing reset times and converting raw error responses into readable status messages.

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 2 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 #115860. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #115860 (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: `partially_resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-115860`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_PARTIAL`): some members are connected by structural evidence (shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference); the rest are joined by an automated relevance judgement over their text.
- Members outside that structural core may belong to a different underlying problem.
- Pairwise link density `0.27`: 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

- #50460: \[Feature\]: Convert API errors to human readable

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #26889: Surface rate limit reset time in user-facing status messages
- #57235: \[Feature\]: Countdown timer for HTTP 429: The usage limit has been reached

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#115860: fix(agent): rate-limit retry status names the provider's reset window on every surface (#26889, redo of #26893)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/agent_runtime_helpers.py`, `agent/turn_recovery.py`, `tests/agent/test_rate_limit_reset_hint.py`
- **#26893: fix(run_agent): surface rate-limit reset time in status messages**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `stale_abandoned`; implication `active`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #115860 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-19`.
- Subsystem: `agent`