# NousResearch/hermes-agent · STT/TTS config api_key and base_url ignored

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A bug where api_key and base_url from STT (and TTS) config are not read for local endpoints, causing provider selection to fail or treat placeholder keys as valid. Multiple fixes and related reports address this same configuration-reading issue.

## 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #4102: bug(tools): stt.openai.api_key and base_url from config are ignored — STT provider always MISSING for local endpoints

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#4103: fix(tools): read api_key and base_url from stt.openai config for local endpoints**. closed without merge · fix tier `suggested`
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `28380e7aed0408e500e5697640014dd174018eb2`
  - _suggested-tier fix detail withheld; re-request with `?tier=all` to include it._
- **#4209: fix: read stt/tts api_key and base_url from config for local endpoints**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`

## Fix status

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