# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Auth store wrongly wiped on transient read errors

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A bug where transient read errors (such as EMFILE or EACCES) are misclassified as credential store corruption, risking erasure of all stored credentials. The members address identifying and fixing this misclassification to preserve the credential store.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #75258. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #75258 (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-75258`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #75206: \[Bug\]: auth: a transient read failure (EMFILE/EACCES) is classified as corruption and returns an empty store — one save away from wiping all credentials

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#75258: fix(auth): a transient read failure is not corruption**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `hermes_cli/auth.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_auth_store_read_failure.py`
- **#75236: fix(auth): preserve store on transient read errors**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#75887`, `#75258`
- **#75887: fix(auth): preserve the credential store on transient read errors**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#75258`, `#75236`, `#75206`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #75258 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-01`.