# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Azure/custom API key header name support

## Open now

- 0 issues, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- PR #63312: fix(auth): send Azure api-key header on OpenAI-wire routes
- PR #63313: fix(auth): add azure api-key headers

These issues and PRs address the inability to configure or send a custom API key header name, particularly for Azure and Azure Foundry endpoints. Work includes bug reports and fixes for sending the correct auth header on Azure and custom provider routes.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 2 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 1 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #63303: \[Bug\]: azure foundry api no configuration option to override header name

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#63312: fix(auth): send Azure api-key header on OpenAI-wire routes**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `agent/agent_init.py`, `agent/auxiliary_client.py`, `run_agent.py`, `tests/agent/test_auxiliary_client_azure_foundry.py`, `tests/run_agent/test_provider_attribution_headers.py`, `utils.py`
- **#63313: fix(auth): add azure api-key headers**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#63312`, `#63303`
  - files: `agent/agent_init.py`, `agent/auxiliary_client.py`, `agent/model_metadata.py`, `run_agent.py`, `tests/agent/test_auxiliary_client_azure_foundry.py`, `tests/agent/test_model_metadata_local_ctx.py`, `tests/run_agent/test_provider_attribution_headers.py`, `tests/test_base_url_hostname.py`, `utils.py`
- **#63909: fix(providers): add api_key_header config option for custom auth header name**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `b98baa303`, `#63303`

## Fix status

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