# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Firecrawl keyless mode and multi-vendor web tier

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and PRs address Firecrawl keyless API support being incorrectly treated as unconfigured, and expand the keyless web tier to rotate across multiple free vendors with failover logic.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 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 #90572. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #90572 (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: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-90572`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #49912: Firecrawl keyless API is treated as unconfigured without FIRECRAWL_API_KEY

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#90572: feat: keyless web tier is now a 5-vendor free rotation (Exa/Parallel/Tavily/Firecrawl/Keenable) with ring failover + honest doctor readiness**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/web_search_registry.py`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `default.tar.gz`, `hermes_cli/config_defaults.py`, `hermes_cli/doctor.py`, `hermes_cli/nous_subscription.py`, `plugins/web/exa/provider.py`, `plugins/web/firecrawl/plugin.yaml`, `plugins/web/firecrawl/provider.py`, `plugins/web/keenable/__init__.py`, `plugins/web/keenable/plugin.yaml`, `plugins/web/keenable/provider.py`, `plugins/web/keyless_mcp.py`, `plugins/web/parallel/provider.py`, `plugins/web/tavily/plugin.yaml`, `plugins/web/tavily/provider.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_doctor.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_nous_subscription.py`, `tests/plugins/web/test_web_search_provider_plugins.py`, `tests/tools/test_web_keyless_fallback.py` (+8 more)
- **#50659: fix(web): allow explicit Firecrawl keyless mode**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `f796239c6`, `#90572`, `#49912`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #90572 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-20`.
- Subsystem: `agent/proxy_sources`