# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Delegate task credential inheritance after provider fallback

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern a bug where delegated subagents inherit a mismatched or incoherent credential bundle from the parent after a provider fallback occurs, leading to authentication errors. The work addresses ensuring subagents receive a coherent endpoint-and-key pair that reflects the parent's current active provider.

## 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 #115882. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #115882 (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-115882`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #90009: \[Bug\]: delegate_task inherits parent's post-fallback provider-mismatched credential — instant 401, no retry

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#115882: fix(delegate): subagents inherit the parent's active endpoint and key as one bundle after a fallback (#90009, salvage #111823)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `tests/tools/test_delegate.py`, `tools/delegate_tool_config.py`
- **#90209: fix(delegate): inherit coherent parent runtime after provider fallback**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#90009`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #115882 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-19`.
- Subsystem: `agent`