# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Codex app-server auth error source separation

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern distinguishing between ambient plugin 401 errors and real primary auth failures in the codex app-server, so that one does not mask or be misclassified as the other.

## 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 #115739. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #115739 (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-115739`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #75167: codex_app_server misclassifies ambient plugin 401 stderr as primary auth failure

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#115739: fix(codex): plugin 401 noise in app-server stderr no longer masks the real turn error (#75167, salvage #75182)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/transports/codex_app_server_session.py`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `tests/agent/transports/test_codex_app_server_session.py`
- **#75182: \[codex\] separate app-server auth error sources**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `e132e69374e2`, `#115739`, `#75167`, `#75182`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #115739 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-19`.
- Subsystem: `agent`