# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Auth provider 503 errors and OAuth gating issues

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern cases where cloud/dashboard auth layers return unexpected status codes or block peer messages, specifically around OAuth-gated agents and auth provider reachability. The group spans a bug report, a live incident, and a related fix across similar but not identical auth failure scenarios.

## 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 #100938. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #100938 (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: `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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #94558: Hermes Cloud agents (sjc): API server returns 503 'Auth provider nous unreachable' — survives token refresh and instance restart

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#100938: Dashboard auth gate answers an opaque/non-JWT bearer with 401, not 503 'Auth provider unreachable' (refs #94558)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `hermes_cli/dashboard_auth/__init__.py`, `hermes_cli/dashboard_auth/base.py`, `plugins/dashboard_auth/nous/__init__.py`, `plugins/dashboard_auth/self_hosted/__init__.py`, `tests/plugins/dashboard_auth/test_opaque_bearer_not_unreachable.py`
- **#94579: fix(cloud): accept peer messages on OAuth-gated agents**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `2f44998353`, `#94558`, `#100938`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #100938 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-02`.