# NousResearch/hermes-agent · CLI secret/API key redaction in output and logs

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #68040: CLI echoes full secret values: \`config set\` (suffix-shaped keys) and \`webhook subscribe\`
- PR #68042: fix(cli): redact secret values in config set and webhook subscribe

Multiple reports and fixes addressing CLI commands (config set/get/show, webhook subscribe) exposing secret values and API keys in terminal output, with efforts toward centralized redaction logic.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.67`: 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.

## Open related issues

- #68040: CLI echoes full secret values: \`config set\` (suffix-shaped keys) and \`webhook subscribe\`

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#68042: fix(cli): redact secret values in config set and webhook subscribe**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `f9e3b53dea05`, `#54373`, `#32403`, `#57125`, `#68042`, `#68400`, `#68040`, `#374151`
  - files: `hermes_cli/config.py`, `hermes_cli/subcommands/webhook.py`, `hermes_cli/webhook.py`, `skills/autonomous-ai-agents/hermes-agent/references/webhooks.md`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_set_config_value.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_webhook_cli.py`, `website/docs/reference/cli-commands.md`, `website/docs/user-guide/messaging/webhooks.md`
- **#68400: fix(cli): mask credential-shaped values in config set/get and webhook subscribe**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#68042`

## Fix status

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