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From: kshitijk4poor <82637225+kshitijk4poor@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2026 18:44:15 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] fix: guard resolve_profile_env against missing profile dirs
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The _default_spawn HERMES_HOME injection (PR #23356) calls
resolve_profile_env which raises FileNotFoundError when the profile
dir doesn't exist. In production the profile always exists (workers are
only dispatched for live profiles), but tests with isolated HERMES_HOME
never create profile dirs. Catch FileNotFoundError and fall through —
HERMES_PROFILE is still set below, so the worker CLI resolves the
profile at startup.
---
 hermes_cli/kanban_db.py | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hermes_cli/kanban_db.py b/hermes_cli/kanban_db.py
index 43dbce0ab6f..4746c85518a 100644
--- a/hermes_cli/kanban_db.py
+++ b/hermes_cli/kanban_db.py
@@ -3941,7 +3941,14 @@ def _default_spawn(
     # profile-specific config entirely.  Fixes profile-scoped fallback_providers
     # being invisible to kanban workers.
     from hermes_cli.profiles import resolve_profile_env
-    env["HERMES_HOME"] = resolve_profile_env(profile_arg)
+    try:
+        env["HERMES_HOME"] = resolve_profile_env(profile_arg)
+    except FileNotFoundError:
+        # Profile dir doesn't exist — defer resolution to the CLI's
+        # _apply_profile_override() via HERMES_PROFILE (set below).
+        # This only happens in test fixtures where the isolated
+        # HERMES_HOME never had profiles created.
+        pass
     if task.tenant:
         env["HERMES_TENANT"] = task.tenant
     env["HERMES_KANBAN_TASK"] = task.id