# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Preserve extra headers during provider fallback

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #87098: Preserve provider entry headers across fallback requests
- PR #87149: fix(providers): preserve entry extra_headers across fallback requests

These members address a bug where extra headers defined on a provider entry are lost when requests fall back to alternative providers. The fix ensures those headers are carried through across fallback attempts.

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #87098: Preserve provider entry headers across fallback requests

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#87149: fix(providers): preserve entry extra_headers across fallback requests**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `7fd749daf0`
  - files: `agent/auxiliary_client.py`, `tests/agent/test_fallback_extra_headers.py`
- **#87224: preserve-fallback-provider-headers**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`

## Fix status

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