# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Agent env credential refresh pool ID rebinding fix

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a bug where refreshing environment credentials during agent operation leaves a stale credential pool entry ID, causing a healthy fallback key to be incorrectly quarantined on the next 429 response. The work involves rebinding the pool entry ID after each per-turn credential refresh.

## 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 #82149. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #82149 (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-82149`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #79156: fix(agent): per-turn env credential refresh leaves stale pool entry id — healthy fallback key quarantined on next 429

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#82149: fix(agent): rebind pool entry id after env credential refresh (salvage #79180)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/credential_pool.py`, `run_agent.py`, `tests/agent/test_credential_pool.py`, `tests/run_agent/test_env_credential_turn_refresh.py`
- **#79180: fix(agent): rebind pool entry id after env credential refresh**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `bf7c716648`, `#82149`, `#79156`
- **#79224: fix(agent): rebind credential pool entry id on env credential refresh (#79156)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `bf7c716648`, `#82149`, `#79180`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #82149 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-09`.