The credential pool intentionally does NOT refresh Nous entries during
selection — that would trigger network calls in non-runtime contexts
like 'hermes auth list'. But resolve_runtime_provider() was returning
the pool entry's stale agent_key (~30 min TTL) without checking
whether it had expired, causing the inference API to reject requests.
Now, when the pool returns a Nous entry, we check _agent_key_is_usable()
before using it. If the key is expired or missing, pool_api_key is
cleared so the existing fallthrough to resolve_nous_runtime_credentials()
handles the access_token refresh + agent_key mint cycle.
Ben
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