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Empty credential pool entries treated as unauthenticated

NousResearch/hermes-agent · cluster 28140

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #28312. Check it covers your case.

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A fix was merged to main in PR #28312. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
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Multiple fixes and reports addressing a bug where empty credential pool entries incorrectly caused providers to appear as authenticated in the model picker and CLI. Changes enforce that only non-empty credentials are treated as valid.

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  • #28312 fix(auth): treat empty credential pool entries as unauthenticated in /model picker (#28241)

    merged to main

    files: hermes_cli/model_switch.py

4 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: done elsewhere 2 · merged via another change 1 · superseded by another PR 1

  • #20705 fix(model-picker): require real credentials in section 1 (api_key path) · done elsewhere
  • #28150 fix(model-picker): ignore empty credential-pool entries · superseded by another PR → 95846ed, #28312
  • #28190 fix(cli): empty credential pool entries no longer authenticate provider (#28140) · done elsewhere → 95846ed, #28312, #28150
  • #28241 fix(auth): treat empty credential pool entries as unauthenticated in /model picker · merged via another change → 95846ed, #28312
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#28140Empty credential pool entries cause providers to show as authenticated in /model picker
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  • Pairwise link density 0.33: the share of item 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.

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19 May 2026

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