# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Chronos hosted agent auth 403 error handling

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These members relate to a bug where Chronos provisioning rejected hosted Nous Cloud agents with HTTP 403 errors, and associated fixes addressing credential handling and supervisor behavior when invalid_client errors occur.

## 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 #115573. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #115573 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #97494: \[Bug\]: Chronos provisioning rejects hosted Nous Cloud agents with HTTP 403

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#115573: Chronos: 403 invalid_client no longer strands cron jobs; supervisor stops re-running Chronos start() (#97494, supersedes #97566)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `cron/scheduler_thread.py`, `plugins/cron_providers/chronos/__init__.py`, `plugins/cron_providers/chronos/_nas_client.py`, `tests/cron/test_ticker_startup_survival.py`, `tests/plugins/test_chronos_cron.py`, `website/docs/developer-guide/chronos-managed-cron-contract.md`
- **#97566: fix(chronos): use hosted agent credential**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#97494`, `#115573`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #115573 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-19`.