# NousResearch/hermes-agent · TTS streaming Gemini API key URL exposure fix

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern a bug where Gemini API keys were being exposed in TTS request URLs during streaming, along with related issues such as unterminated think blocks being spoken aloud. The work addresses fixes across TTS streaming behavior for xAI and Gemini integrations.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #121741. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #121741 (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-121741`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #73962: \[Bug\]: streaming TTS puts the Gemini API key in request URLs and speaks unterminated think blocks aloud

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#121741: fix(tts): working xAI streaming, Gemini key out of URLs, no spoken think tails, recorder stream rebuild**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/150129844+andyst-dev@users.noreply.github.com`, `tests/tools/test_tts_dotenv_fallback.py`, `tests/tools/test_tts_gemini.py`, `tests/tools/test_tts_streaming.py`, `tests/tools/test_voice_mode.py`, `tools/tts_streaming.py`, `tools/tts_tool_providers.py`, `tools/voice_mode.py`
- **#73964: fix(tts): keep Gemini API keys out of request URLs**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `42c5ed5787`, `#121741`, `#73962`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #121741 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-26`.
- Subsystem: `agent`