# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Delegate task credential inheritance fix

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A bug where child/subagent credential pools ignore the parent's fixed proxy credentials, causing 401 authentication failures, along with associated fixes to preserve inherited credentials in delegate tasks.

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 3 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #131878. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #131878 (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-131878`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.40`: 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

- #71424: delegate_task subagents hang 600s — child credential pool ignores parent's fixed (proxy) credential, 401s on api.anthropic.com

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#131878: fix(delegate): preserve inherited fixed child credentials \[risk 0.30\]**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_delegate.py`, `tools/delegate_tool_config.py`
- **#71454: fix(delegate): preserve inherited fixed child credentials**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#131878`
- **#71493: fix(delegate): preserve parent fixed proxy credential**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#71454`, `#71454`
- **#71509: fix(delegate): preserve parent fixed proxy credential**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#71454`, `#71454`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #131878 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-03`.
- Subsystem: `agent`