Critical bug: claude-bot only ignored its OWN messages and text explicitly
addressed to @hermes — it did not ignore Hermes's own replies appearing in
the room. A single @hermes mention cascaded into claude-bot replying to
Hermes's thread messages ('Hermes says: ...'), which could itself cascade
further. Fixed with an OTHER_AGENT_USER_IDS allowlist of sender IDs to
always ignore, not just a text-prefix check.
Also point Hermes's model provider at the local litellm gateway
(OPENAI_BASE_URL/OPENAI_API_KEY) instead of OpenRouter directly, matching
claude-agent's own chat path — one place to hold the OpenRouter credential.
This does NOT grant Hermes access to the Claude subscription; that's an
Anthropic-side restriction unrelated to which proxy sits in front of it,
already proven earlier in this session.
Separately (not a code fix): the 'Billing or credits exhausted: HTTP 402'
error Hermes hit is real — the OpenRouter account currently has 0 credits.
william
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