# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Custom provider subname lost in credential pool lookup

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These members appear to concern the same topic: a provider value like custom:<subname> being normalized to bare 'custom' during credential pool lookup, which may cause the wrong API key to be selected. Two are pull requests proposing a fix to preserve the subname, and one is a bug report describing the behavior in model_aliases.

## TL;DR

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #29872: \[Bug\]: model_aliases provider: custom:<subname> normalized to bare 'custom', wrong API key picked from pool

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#33700: fix(auth): preserve custom:<subname> in credential pool lookup**. closed without merge · fix tier `suggested`
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `e38ea38079b8683fba48a245c19ff5a2a8f50d39`, `#29872`
  - _suggested-tier fix detail withheld; re-request with `?tier=all` to include it._
- **#29893: fix(auth): preserve custom:<subname> in credential pool lookup (fixes #29872)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`

## Fix status

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