From 5af315c4cc833e20d7306053cbee295b3f0639af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: TurgutKural <58116817+TurgutKural@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 10 May 2026 21:28:22 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] fix(kanban): inject HERMES_HOME into worker subprocess env

Default spawn did not propagate HERMES_HOME when forking kanban workers.
The worker's env is copied from the parent via dict(os.environ), so
HERMES_HOME is absent. When the child then starts hermes -p <profile>,
the CLI's _apply_profile_override() runs before hermes_constants is
imported and get_hermes_home() falls back to ~/.hermes (the default
profile root), silently ignoring the profile's config.yaml.  Profile-
scoped fallback_providers, toolsets, and agent settings are therefore
never applied to kanban workers.

The fix injects HERMES_HOME into the worker's env using
resolve_profile_env(profile_arg) so the child reads the correct profile
directory instead of the default root.
---
 hermes_cli/kanban_db.py | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/hermes_cli/kanban_db.py b/hermes_cli/kanban_db.py
index f414766ef5c..21b0e743259 100644
--- a/hermes_cli/kanban_db.py
+++ b/hermes_cli/kanban_db.py
@@ -3930,6 +3930,18 @@ def _default_spawn(
 
     prompt = f"work kanban task {task.id}"
     env = dict(os.environ)
+
+    # Inject HERMES_HOME so the worker reads the profile-scoped config.yaml
+    # (fallback_providers, toolsets, agent settings, etc.) instead of the root
+    # config.  Without this, `env = dict(os.environ)` copies only the parent's
+    # env, and when the child process starts `hermes -p <name>` the
+    # _apply_profile_override() runs *before* hermes_constants is imported.
+    # If HERMES_HOME is absent from the child's env, get_hermes_home() falls
+    # back to Path.home() / ".hermes" (the DEFAULT profile root), ignoring the
+    # 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)
     if task.tenant:
         env["HERMES_TENANT"] = task.tenant
     env["HERMES_KANBAN_TASK"] = task.id