# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Fix misleading credential hints for OAuth users

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address cases where authentication error messages and agent initialization guide OAuth users toward setting environment variables that are incorrect or unused, and propose fixes to point users toward the right credential or re-authentication flow instead.

## 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 #114852. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #114852 (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-114852`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #78996: Main-agent init tells OAuth providers to set a <PROVIDER>_API_KEY env var that nothing reads

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#114852: fix(auth): missing-credential hints name the real env var or the OAuth login (#114405, #78996, salvage #89517)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/agent_init.py`, `agent/auxiliary_client.py`, `agent/auxiliary_unavailable.py`, `agent/context_compressor.py`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `tests/agent/test_context_compressor.py`, `tests/agent/test_missing_provider_credentials_hint.py`, `website/docs/guides/minimax-oauth.md`
- **#79007: fix(agent): guide OAuth users to re-authenticate**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `cab9a2795479`, `#114852`, `#114405`, `#78996`, `#89517`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #114852 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-18`.
- Subsystem: `agent`