# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Add bearer auth option for custom Anthropic providers

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #77284: custom_providers: add bearer_auth option for Anthropic-compatible endpoints that require Authorization: Bearer
- PR #77664: feat(custom-providers): add bearer_auth option for Anthropic-compatible endpoints

These items all concern adding a bearer_auth configuration option to support custom or Anthropic-compatible provider endpoints that require Authorization: Bearer token authentication. The members appear to be duplicates or closely related iterations of the same feature request or pull request.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Open related issues

- #77284: custom_providers: add bearer_auth option for Anthropic-compatible endpoints that require Authorization: Bearer

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#77664: feat(custom-providers): add bearer_auth option for Anthropic-compatible endpoints**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `adb993f74e44`, `#77664`, `#77284`, `#374151`
  - files: `agent/anthropic_adapter.py`, `hermes_cli/config.py`, `tests/agent/test_anthropic_adapter.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_provider_config_validation.py`
- **#91992: feat(custom-providers): add bearer_auth option for Anthropic-compatible endpoints**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#77664`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `agent`