NousResearch/hermes-agent
Auth errors incorrectly marked retryable in message classifier
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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #7027 on 10 Apr 2026. Check it covers your case.
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- A fix was merged to main in PR #7027. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
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These issues and PRs address a bug where message-based authentication errors are classified with retryable=True in _classify_by_message(), causing unintended retry loops. The fixes set retryable=False for these auth error cases.
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#7027 fix: set retryable=False for message-based auth errors in _classify_by_message()
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agent/error_classifier.pyShow the diff
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agent/error_classifier.py@@ -725,10 +725,14 @@ def _classify_by_message( ) # Auth patterns + # Auth errors should NOT be retried directly — the credential is invalid and + # retrying with the same key will always fail. Set retryable=False so the + # caller triggers credential rotation (should_rotate_credential=True) or + # provider fallback rather than an immediate retry loop. if any(p in error_msg for p in _AUTH_PATTERNS): return result_fn( FailoverReason.auth, - retryable=True, + retryable=False, should_rotate_credential=True, )
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From the close comments: superseded by another PR 1
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#7033 fix(agent): set retryable=False for auth errors in _classify_by_message · superseded by another PR →
#7027
Closed issues · 1
- Closed#7026bug: message-based auth errors use retryable=True in _classify_by_message() causing retry loops
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