# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Photon auth credentials rotation and provisioning fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern authentication failures, secret rotation handling, and provisioning logic for the Photon/iMessage integration. They address stale tokens, unnecessary secret regeneration, and related setup reliability issues.

## 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 #73562. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #73562 (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-73562`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #50755: Photon iMessage: AuthenticationError on sendText after project secret rotation

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#73562: fix(photon): auth & setup cluster — stale tokens, secret rotation, diagnostics, atomic auth.json (salvage x6)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `plugins/platforms/photon/adapter.py`, `plugins/platforms/photon/auth.py`, `plugins/platforms/photon/cli.py`, `plugins/platforms/photon/sidecar/.gitignore`, `tests/plugins/platforms/photon/test_auth.py`, `tests/plugins/platforms/photon/test_check_requirements_risks.py`, `tests/plugins/platforms/photon/test_npm_error_log_regression.py`, `tests/plugins/platforms/photon/test_setup_access.py`, `tests/plugins/platforms/photon/test_sidecar_lifecycle.py`
- **#50761: fix(photon): skip secret regeneration when existing credentials are valid (#50755)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#73562`, `#50755`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #73562 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-07-29`.
- Subsystem: `gateway`