# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Failover on keyless provider auth rejections

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A bug was identified where HTTP 403 errors from keyless Firecrawl block the free-provider failover ring, and fixes were proposed to treat such auth rejections as a signal to try the next 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 #131834. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #131834 (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-131834`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #91609: \[Bug\]: keyless Firecrawl HTTP 403 stops the free-provider failover ring

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#131834: fix(web): fail over keyless auth rejections \[risk 0.30\]**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `plugins/web/keyless_mcp.py`, `tests/tools/test_web_keyless_fallback.py`
- **#91619: fix(web): fail over keyless auth rejections**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #131834 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-02`.
- Subsystem: `agent`