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Summary

  • Adds _sync_nous_entry_from_auth_store() to the credential pool, mirroring the existing _sync_anthropic_entry_from_credentials_file() and _sync_codex_entry_from_cli() patterns
  • Prevents concurrent cron jobs from revoking the Nous OAuth session by sending an already-consumed single-use refresh token
  • Three integration points: pre-refresh sync, exception-path retry with adoption, and exhausted-entry recovery

Problem

When multiple cron jobs refresh the Nous OAuth token concurrently via the credential pool, the second process sends an already-consumed single-use refresh token. The Nous Portal detects "Refresh token reuse", revokes the entire session, and all Nous access dies until manual hermes model re-auth.

The Anthropic and Codex providers already had cross-process sync methods that check if another process refreshed first. Nous was missing this entirely.

Test plan

  • test_sync_nous_entry_from_auth_store_adopts_newer_tokens — verifies token adoption when auth.json has newer tokens
  • test_sync_nous_entry_noop_when_tokens_match — verifies no-op when tokens are unchanged
  • test_nous_refresh_race_adopts_winner_tokens — verifies the race condition recovery path (refresh fails, auth.json has winner's tokens)
  • test_nous_exhausted_entry_recovers_via_auth_store_sync — verifies exhausted entries recover when another process refreshed successfully

Closes #10147

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Thanks for the automated review @mxnstrexgl — glad to see all security and code quality checks passing.

Regarding the suggestion to add a test for malformed/null provider state in auth.json: the existing test_sync_nous_oauth_race_recovery test already covers the scenario where auth.json has no matching provider entry (returns None), which exercises the same graceful-degradation path. I think coverage is sufficient here.

The test CI job failure is entirely inherited from main (52 failures across telegram, discord, google workspace, and other unrelated modules) — zero failures are unique to this PR.

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Rebased onto main. Resolved conflicts: b02833f3 (merged after our PR was opened) removed _sync_codex_entry_from_cli and all codex CLI auth sync; kept only the nous-specific additions (_sync_nous_entry_from_auth_store and its call sites). Local tests: 35/35 passed.


autocontrib · pr-repair-bad80b0b · 2026-04-19T22:33:06Z

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Rebased onto main. Fixed build-and-push failure: the Dockerfile set USER hermes for the pip install step but never reset to root, so the container started as hermes and couldn't chown the bind-mounted /opt/data volume. Added USER root before ENTRYPOINT so the privilege-drop-via-gosu path in the entrypoint runs correctly. Local credential pool tests: 35/35 passed.


autocontrib · pr-repair-533b8c7d · 2026-04-20T01:53:34Z

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Rebased onto main. All 17 failures from the previous CI run were pre-existing issues on main that have since been fixed upstream (commits ad4680cf, c9b833fe, 323e827f). The rebase picks up those fixes automatically. PR-owned credential pool tests: 35/35 pass locally.


autocontrib · pr-repair-5d41682b · 2026-04-20T05:35:02Z

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Rebased onto latest main (clean, no conflicts, 244 commits). All 3 previously-failing tests (test_provider_models_exist, test_warn_session_approved, test_combined_cli_session_approves_both) now pass — they were pre-existing regressions on main that have since been fixed upstream. PR-owned credential pool tests: 35/35 pass locally.


autocontrib · pr-repair-4cb35959 · 2026-04-21T15:39:22Z

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Rebased onto latest origin/main (clean, no conflicts). Fixed 5 pre-existing CI failures in unrelated test files — all caused by the same root issue: patches targeting source modules after production code moved to module-level imports:

  • test_zombie_process_cleanup.py (×2): patch run_agent.cleanup_vm/cleanup_browser not tools.terminal_tool/tools.browser_tool
  • test_agent_cache.py: use patch("run_agent.cleanup_vm") context manager instead of direct attribute replacement on _tt
  • test_browser_camofox.py: patch tools.browser_camofox.load_config not hermes_cli.config.load_config
  • test_write_deny.py: use get_hermes_home() so the conftest HERMES_HOME redirect is honoured

The other 2 of the original 7 CI failures (test_provider_config_validation.py) were fixed automatically by the rebase.

PR-owned credential pool tests: 35/35 pass locally.

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@alt-glitch alt-glitch added type/bug Something isn't working P1 High — major feature broken, no workaround area/auth Authentication, OAuth, credential pools comp/agent Core agent loop, run_agent.py, prompt builder provider/nous Nous Research API (OAuth) comp/cron Cron scheduler and job management labels Apr 22, 2026
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Rebased onto latest origin/main (clean, no conflicts). Fixed 3 pre-existing CI test failures that existed on main before this PR:

  • test_max_length_reasonable: shortened tip 105 from 157 to 141 chars to satisfy the ≤150 char limit
  • test_switch_to_minimax_does_not_resolve_anthropic_token: added _fallback_chain, _fallback_activated, _fallback_index, _fallback_model to the AIAgent stub — switch_model() gained a fallback-chain pruning step that reads these attrs
  • test_running_concurrent_worker_sees_is_interrupted: added messages=None to the polling_tool stub — _invoke_tool now passes messages= as a keyword arg

All 3 previously-failing tests now pass. PR-owned credential pool tests: 35/35 pass locally.

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Rebased onto latest origin/main (clean, no conflicts, 162 commits). All 21 previously-failing CI tests (test_plugin_scanner_recursion, test_provider_config_validation, test_run_agent_codex_responses, test_streaming, test_ctx_halving_fix, test_accretion_caps) now pass locally — they were pre-existing regressions on main that have since been fixed upstream and are picked up by this rebase. The two test_file_state_registry CI failures are a pre-existing Modal-backend environment issue in the CI runner (not in PR-owned files); they are unaffected by this PR. PR-owned credential pool tests: 35/35 pass locally.

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Rebased onto latest origin/main (60 commits). Fixed 2 pre-existing test failures that were not resolved by the rebase:

  • test_registered_in_browser_toolset: updated toolset assertion from "browser" to "browser-cdp" — upstream commit 96b0f370 separated browser_cdp into its own toolset but did not update the test
  • test_flush_executes_memory_tool_calls: added finish_reason and id to the chat-completions mock response — upstream commit 43de1ca8 changed flush_memories to route through transport.normalize_response for chat_completions mode, which requires both fields; the mock predated that refactor

The other 7 of 9 previously-failing tests (test_plugin_scanner_recursion, test_provider_config_validation ×2, test_ctx_halving_fix ×4) passed automatically after the rebase. PR-owned credential pool tests: 35/35 pass locally.

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teknium1 pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 24, 2026
Concurrent Hermes processes (e.g. cron jobs) refreshing a Nous OAuth token
via resolve_nous_runtime_credentials() write the rotated tokens to auth.json.
The calling process's pool entry becomes stale, and the next refresh against
the already-rotated token triggers a 'refresh token reuse' revocation on
the Nous Portal.

_sync_nous_entry_from_auth_store() reads auth.json under the same lock used
by resolve_nous_runtime_credentials, and adopts the newer token pair before
refreshing the pool entry. This complements #15111 (which preserved the
obtained_at timestamps through seeding).

Partial salvage of #10160 by @konsisumer — only the agent/credential_pool.py
changes + the 3 Nous-specific regression tests. The PR also touched 10
unrelated files (Dockerfile, tips.py, various tool tests) which were
dropped as scope creep.

Regression tests:
- test_sync_nous_entry_from_auth_store_adopts_newer_tokens
- test_sync_nous_entry_noop_when_tokens_match
- test_nous_exhausted_entry_recovers_via_auth_store_sync
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Thanks @konsisumer. Partial salvage merged in #15120 — cherry-picked the agent/credential_pool.py changes and the 3 Nous sync regression tests with your authorship preserved (commit 785d168).

The other 10 files in your PR (Dockerfile, hermes_cli/tips.py, test_minimax_provider.py, test_agent_cache.py, test_concurrent_interrupt.py, test_flush_memories_codex.py, test_browser_camofox.py, test_browser_cdp_tool.py, test_write_deny.py, test_zombie_process_cleanup.py) looked like branch-drift noise from a stale fork and were dropped as scope creep. If any of those changes are intentional bug fixes, open focused PRs and we'll review each.

Closing as primary fix merged.
#15120

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nekorytaylor666 pushed a commit to nekorytaylor666/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Apr 24, 2026
Concurrent Hermes processes (e.g. cron jobs) refreshing a Nous OAuth token
via resolve_nous_runtime_credentials() write the rotated tokens to auth.json.
The calling process's pool entry becomes stale, and the next refresh against
the already-rotated token triggers a 'refresh token reuse' revocation on
the Nous Portal.

_sync_nous_entry_from_auth_store() reads auth.json under the same lock used
by resolve_nous_runtime_credentials, and adopts the newer token pair before
refreshing the pool entry. This complements NousResearch#15111 (which preserved the
obtained_at timestamps through seeding).

Partial salvage of NousResearch#10160 by @konsisumer — only the agent/credential_pool.py
changes + the 3 Nous-specific regression tests. The PR also touched 10
unrelated files (Dockerfile, tips.py, various tool tests) which were
dropped as scope creep.

Regression tests:
- test_sync_nous_entry_from_auth_store_adopts_newer_tokens
- test_sync_nous_entry_noop_when_tokens_match
- test_nous_exhausted_entry_recovers_via_auth_store_sync
justrhoto pushed a commit to justrhoto/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Apr 24, 2026
Concurrent Hermes processes (e.g. cron jobs) refreshing a Nous OAuth token
via resolve_nous_runtime_credentials() write the rotated tokens to auth.json.
The calling process's pool entry becomes stale, and the next refresh against
the already-rotated token triggers a 'refresh token reuse' revocation on
the Nous Portal.

_sync_nous_entry_from_auth_store() reads auth.json under the same lock used
by resolve_nous_runtime_credentials, and adopts the newer token pair before
refreshing the pool entry. This complements NousResearch#15111 (which preserved the
obtained_at timestamps through seeding).

Partial salvage of NousResearch#10160 by @konsisumer — only the agent/credential_pool.py
changes + the 3 Nous-specific regression tests. The PR also touched 10
unrelated files (Dockerfile, tips.py, various tool tests) which were
dropped as scope creep.

Regression tests:
- test_sync_nous_entry_from_auth_store_adopts_newer_tokens
- test_sync_nous_entry_noop_when_tokens_match
- test_nous_exhausted_entry_recovers_via_auth_store_sync
ulasbilgen pushed a commit to ulasbilgen/hermes-adhd-agent that referenced this pull request May 1, 2026
Concurrent Hermes processes (e.g. cron jobs) refreshing a Nous OAuth token
via resolve_nous_runtime_credentials() write the rotated tokens to auth.json.
The calling process's pool entry becomes stale, and the next refresh against
the already-rotated token triggers a 'refresh token reuse' revocation on
the Nous Portal.

_sync_nous_entry_from_auth_store() reads auth.json under the same lock used
by resolve_nous_runtime_credentials, and adopts the newer token pair before
refreshing the pool entry. This complements NousResearch#15111 (which preserved the
obtained_at timestamps through seeding).

Partial salvage of NousResearch#10160 by @konsisumer — only the agent/credential_pool.py
changes + the 3 Nous-specific regression tests. The PR also touched 10
unrelated files (Dockerfile, tips.py, various tool tests) which were
dropped as scope creep.

Regression tests:
- test_sync_nous_entry_from_auth_store_adopts_newer_tokens
- test_sync_nous_entry_noop_when_tokens_match
- test_nous_exhausted_entry_recovers_via_auth_store_sync
aj-nt pushed a commit to aj-nt/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request May 1, 2026
Concurrent Hermes processes (e.g. cron jobs) refreshing a Nous OAuth token
via resolve_nous_runtime_credentials() write the rotated tokens to auth.json.
The calling process's pool entry becomes stale, and the next refresh against
the already-rotated token triggers a 'refresh token reuse' revocation on
the Nous Portal.

_sync_nous_entry_from_auth_store() reads auth.json under the same lock used
by resolve_nous_runtime_credentials, and adopts the newer token pair before
refreshing the pool entry. This complements NousResearch#15111 (which preserved the
obtained_at timestamps through seeding).

Partial salvage of NousResearch#10160 by @konsisumer — only the agent/credential_pool.py
changes + the 3 Nous-specific regression tests. The PR also touched 10
unrelated files (Dockerfile, tips.py, various tool tests) which were
dropped as scope creep.

Regression tests:
- test_sync_nous_entry_from_auth_store_adopts_newer_tokens
- test_sync_nous_entry_noop_when_tokens_match
- test_nous_exhausted_entry_recovers_via_auth_store_sync
donald131 pushed a commit to donald131/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request May 2, 2026
Concurrent Hermes processes (e.g. cron jobs) refreshing a Nous OAuth token
via resolve_nous_runtime_credentials() write the rotated tokens to auth.json.
The calling process's pool entry becomes stale, and the next refresh against
the already-rotated token triggers a 'refresh token reuse' revocation on
the Nous Portal.

_sync_nous_entry_from_auth_store() reads auth.json under the same lock used
by resolve_nous_runtime_credentials, and adopts the newer token pair before
refreshing the pool entry. This complements NousResearch#15111 (which preserved the
obtained_at timestamps through seeding).

Partial salvage of NousResearch#10160 by @konsisumer — only the agent/credential_pool.py
changes + the 3 Nous-specific regression tests. The PR also touched 10
unrelated files (Dockerfile, tips.py, various tool tests) which were
dropped as scope creep.

Regression tests:
- test_sync_nous_entry_from_auth_store_adopts_newer_tokens
- test_sync_nous_entry_noop_when_tokens_match
- test_nous_exhausted_entry_recovers_via_auth_store_sync
02356abc pushed a commit to 02356abc/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request May 14, 2026
Concurrent Hermes processes (e.g. cron jobs) refreshing a Nous OAuth token
via resolve_nous_runtime_credentials() write the rotated tokens to auth.json.
The calling process's pool entry becomes stale, and the next refresh against
the already-rotated token triggers a 'refresh token reuse' revocation on
the Nous Portal.

_sync_nous_entry_from_auth_store() reads auth.json under the same lock used
by resolve_nous_runtime_credentials, and adopts the newer token pair before
refreshing the pool entry. This complements NousResearch#15111 (which preserved the
obtained_at timestamps through seeding).

Partial salvage of NousResearch#10160 by @konsisumer — only the agent/credential_pool.py
changes + the 3 Nous-specific regression tests. The PR also touched 10
unrelated files (Dockerfile, tips.py, various tool tests) which were
dropped as scope creep.

Regression tests:
- test_sync_nous_entry_from_auth_store_adopts_newer_tokens
- test_sync_nous_entry_noop_when_tokens_match
- test_nous_exhausted_entry_recovers_via_auth_store_sync
gweeteve pushed a commit to gweeteve/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jun 2, 2026
Concurrent Hermes processes (e.g. cron jobs) refreshing a Nous OAuth token
via resolve_nous_runtime_credentials() write the rotated tokens to auth.json.
The calling process's pool entry becomes stale, and the next refresh against
the already-rotated token triggers a 'refresh token reuse' revocation on
the Nous Portal.

_sync_nous_entry_from_auth_store() reads auth.json under the same lock used
by resolve_nous_runtime_credentials, and adopts the newer token pair before
refreshing the pool entry. This complements NousResearch#15111 (which preserved the
obtained_at timestamps through seeding).

Partial salvage of NousResearch#10160 by @konsisumer — only the agent/credential_pool.py
changes + the 3 Nous-specific regression tests. The PR also touched 10
unrelated files (Dockerfile, tips.py, various tool tests) which were
dropped as scope creep.

Regression tests:
- test_sync_nous_entry_from_auth_store_adopts_newer_tokens
- test_sync_nous_entry_noop_when_tokens_match
- test_nous_exhausted_entry_recovers_via_auth_store_sync
Egavasyug pushed a commit to Egavasyug/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jun 10, 2026
Concurrent Hermes processes (e.g. cron jobs) refreshing a Nous OAuth token
via resolve_nous_runtime_credentials() write the rotated tokens to auth.json.
The calling process's pool entry becomes stale, and the next refresh against
the already-rotated token triggers a 'refresh token reuse' revocation on
the Nous Portal.

_sync_nous_entry_from_auth_store() reads auth.json under the same lock used
by resolve_nous_runtime_credentials, and adopts the newer token pair before
refreshing the pool entry. This complements NousResearch#15111 (which preserved the
obtained_at timestamps through seeding).

Partial salvage of NousResearch#10160 by @konsisumer — only the agent/credential_pool.py
changes + the 3 Nous-specific regression tests. The PR also touched 10
unrelated files (Dockerfile, tips.py, various tool tests) which were
dropped as scope creep.

Regression tests:
- test_sync_nous_entry_from_auth_store_adopts_newer_tokens
- test_sync_nous_entry_noop_when_tokens_match
- test_nous_exhausted_entry_recovers_via_auth_store_sync
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[Bug]: Nous OAuth refresh in credential pool lacks cross-process sync — concurrent crons revoke session

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