Second, deeper pass over tools/gateway/hermes_cli plus first pass over
the trees wave 1 missed (acp, acp_adapter, skills, computer_use, docker,
dashboard, conformance, monitoring, secret_sources, hermes_state,
providers). Same rubric as wave 1 (AGENTS.md test policy); security,
alternation/caching invariants, issue-number regressions, and E2E kept.
Real test-quality fixes found and rooted out along the way:
- tests/tools/test_command_guards.py made real auxiliary-LLM HTTPS calls
(DEFAULT_CONFIG smart-approval leaked in) — pinned approval
mode=manual via autouse fixture: 17.4s → 0.4s.
- test_model_switch_custom_providers.py / test_user_providers_model_switch.py
silently probed live provider catalogs (~2s/test) — stubbed
cached_provider_model_ids/provider_model_ids/fetch_api_models.
- test_telegram_noise_filter.py: 15-platform copy-paste matrix over
shared gateway.run logic → 3 representative platforms (55s → 3.9s).
- test_gateway_shutdown.py: stop()'s 5s interrupt-deadline loop spun on
MagicMock agents — interrupt.side_effect now clears _running_agents
(22s → 1.0s).
- test_gateway_inactivity_timeout.py poll-harness timings shrunk 3-5x
(24s → 1.1s); test_mcp_stability.py backoff/SIGTERM-grace sleeps
patched (15.4s → 2.5s); test_async_delegation.py negative-drain wait
5s → 0.5s.
- test_telegram_init_deadline.py: loop-block margin restored to 1.0s
with rationale comment — the watchdog-dump assertion needs the loop
blocked well past deadline+grace under parallel load (flaked once in
the 40-worker verification run at a 0.2s margin).
Verification: full hermetic suite via scripts/run_tests.sh —
2,438 files, 21,718 tests passed, 0 failed, 293.9s wall.
Suite totals vs original baseline: 46,820 → 19,757 test functions
(−57.8%), wall 583.5s → 293.9s (−50%), subprocess CPU 13,564s → 11,623s.
Gateway /model <name> --provider opencode-go (or any provider whose /models
endpoint is down, 404s, or doesn't exist) silently failed. validate_requested_model
returned accepted=False whenever fetch_api_models returned None, switch_model
returned success=False, and the gateway never wrote _session_model_overrides —
so the switch appeared to succeed in the error message flow but the next turn
kept calling the old provider.
The validator already had static-catalog fallbacks for MiniMax and Codex
(providers without a /models endpoint). Extended the same pattern as the
terminal fallback: when the live probe fails, consult provider_model_ids()
for the curated catalog. Known models → accepted+recognized. Close typos →
auto-corrected. Unknown models → soft-accepted with a 'Not in curated
catalog' warning. Providers with no catalog at all → soft-accepted with a
generic 'Note:' warning, finally honoring the in-code comment ('Accept and
persist, but warn') that had been lying since it was written.
Tests: 7 new tests in test_opencode_go_validation_fallback.py covering the
catalog lookup, case-insensitive match, auto-correct, unknown-with-suggestion,
unknown-without-suggestion, and no-catalog paths. TestValidateApiFallback in
test_model_validation.py updated — its four 'rejected_when_api_down' tests
were encoding exactly the bug being fixed.