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Auxiliary client Nous auth errors and messaging fixes

Cluster 64144 · agent. Data as of

Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #113970 on 17 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.

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These issues and PRs address misleading or missing error messages when the Nous auxiliary provider has authentication problems, including spam in error logs, opaque goal-loop failures, and confusion between absent credentials and payment errors. Several fixes also improve credential refresh behavior and error surfacing in the auxiliary client and goal judge.

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  • #113970 fix(aux): OpenRouter budget-limit 403 falls back, quarantine logs name the real reason, vision fallback skips text-only models (#107166, #64144, #108349, salvage #107173 #64146 #108366)

    merged to main

    files: agent/auxiliary_client.py, agent/error_classifier.py, tests/agent/test_auxiliary_client.py, tests/agent/test_auxiliary_error_classification.py

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: done elsewhere 1

  • #64146 fix(agent): distinguish absent credentials from payment errors in auxiliary unhealthy-marking · done elsewhere → a1238ad, #113970
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#64144[Bug]: Auxiliary unhealthy-mark WARNINGs claim "payment / credit error" when the real cause is absent credentials
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