# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Gate OpenAI API key to OpenAI hosts only

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #91308: Auxiliary custom-endpoint calls send OPENAI_API_KEY to any host (shadowing + credential leak)
- PR #39602: fix(auxiliary): gate OPENAI_API_KEY on OpenAI hosts in custom-endpoint key resolution

These items address a credential leak where OPENAI_API_KEY was being sent to arbitrary custom endpoint hosts. The fix restricts that key to OpenAI-owned hosts only during auxiliary custom-endpoint key resolution.

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #91308: Auxiliary custom-endpoint calls send OPENAI_API_KEY to any host (shadowing + credential leak)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#39602: fix(auxiliary): gate OPENAI_API_KEY on OpenAI hosts in custom-endpoint key resolution**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `fe7007a415`, `#91331`
  - files: `agent/auxiliary_client.py`, `tests/agent/test_auxiliary_named_custom_providers.py`
- **#91331: fix(aux): gate OPENAI_API_KEY on OpenAI hosts for custom endpoints**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#39602`, `#91308`

## Fix status

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