# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Auth reset should clear persisted cooldown state

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and PRs concern a bug where resetting authentication credentials does not clear a cooldown that was previously written to disk, allowing stale quota or cooldown state to persist after an explicit reset.

## 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 #103635. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #103635 (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-103635`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #84711: \[Bug\]: auth reset resurrects stale Codex cooldown; quota probe cache too coarse

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#103635: hermes auth reset now clears a still-binding cooldown on disk (#84711, salvage #90318)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `agent/credential_pool.py`, `hermes_cli/auth.py`, `tests/agent/test_credential_pool.py`, `tests/agent/test_credential_pool_anthropic_refresh_race.py`
- **#93884: fix(agent): make explicit credential reset authoritative over disk cooldown**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `52cf39c908`, `#90318`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #103635 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-05`.
- Subsystem: `agent`