# NousResearch/hermes-agent · OAuth token refresh during credential exhaustion cooldown

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a scenario where OAuth refresh tokens expire because the refresh chain is not maintained while credentials are in an exhaustion cooldown period. The work involves keeping the refresh cycle alive even when the credential pool is temporarily exhausted.

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #44799: Codex OAuth refresh chain not maintained while credential exhausted — refresh token expires during idle cooldown window

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#44853: fix(credential-pool): keep OAuth refresh chain alive during exhaustion cooldown**. closed without merge · fix tier `suggested`
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - _suggested-tier fix detail withheld; re-request with `?tier=all` to include it._
- **#44920: fix(auth): refresh OAuth tokens during exhaustion cooldown (#44799)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#44853`, `#44799`

## Fix status

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