# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Webhook and API key secrets config.yaml exposure

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #77471: fix(security): WEBHOOK_SECRET and model API keys land in plaintext config.yaml, violating the .env-only-secrets rule
- PR #78086: fix(security): keep webhook and model API keys out of config.yaml

These items address a security concern where webhook secrets and model API keys are being stored in plaintext inside config.yaml instead of being kept exclusively in environment variables or secure references. The work involves identifying the violation and changing how secrets are stored or referenced.

## 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #77471: fix(security): WEBHOOK_SECRET and model API keys land in plaintext config.yaml, violating the .env-only-secrets rule

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#78086: fix(security): keep webhook and model API keys out of config.yaml**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `gateway/config.py`, `hermes_cli/config.py`, `hermes_cli/main.py`, `hermes_cli/runtime_provider.py`, `hermes_cli/web_server.py`, `tests/gateway/test_config.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_aux_config.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_set_config_value.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server.py`
- **#85025: fix(security): store webhook secrets by reference and migrate plaintext**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `5b501333fc75e5e9bf72ae4bda2116fee832ac9e`, `e60983a69730c058ce772829df3273aee6de3889`

## Fix status

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