The /api/status gateway_updated_at field and the gateway /health/detailed
updated_at field passed through whatever gateway_state.json contained,
untyped. All current writers emit RFC3339 via _utc_now_iso(), but legacy
gateways wrote unix epoch floats, and a corrupt or hand-edited state file
can inject numbers or arbitrary garbage — while the frontend types
(web/src/lib/api.ts) declare string | null.
Add normalize_updated_at() in gateway/status.py as the single funnel:
- str: accepted iff datetime.fromisoformat parses (trailing Z tolerated);
naive timestamps coerced to UTC; canonical isoformat returned
- int/float: treated as unix epoch seconds -> UTC ISO string, with a
plausibility guard (reject < 2000-01-01, > now+1day, non-finite)
- bool: rejected explicitly (int subclass, but never a timestamp)
- anything else: None
Apply it at both emit sites: the dashboard /api/status handler (covers
both the local read_runtime_status() branch and the remote
/health/detailed cross-container fallback branch) and the gateway API
server's /health/detailed response.
Contract tests: parametrized /api/status normalization (epoch float/int,
garbage string, None, bool, dict, absent key), remote-health numeric and
garbage bodies, dashboard shape test round-trip assertion, direct
normalize_updated_at units (range guards, Z suffix, naive coercion,
non-finite floats), and a write_runtime_status -> read_runtime_status
round-trip proving the writer side stays tz-aware parseable.
The dashboard's public /api/status liveness endpoint is in PUBLIC_API_PATHS
and bypasses dashboard auth, yet it returned absolute hermes_home,
config_path, env_path, the gateway PID, and the internal gateway health URL.
That exceeds the shape its own allowlist documents as public ("version,
gateway state, active session count, and the dashboard auth-gate shape. No
bodies, no session content, no secrets"), leaking deployment recon to any
unauthenticated caller on a network-exposed (gated) bind.
Withhold host-local detail unless the bind is loopback / --insecure, where
the dashboard is local-only and the caller is already inside the trust
envelope -- the same split should_require_auth draws. The NAS liveness probe
and the auth-gate badge are unaffected.
Adds invariant tests for both modes (gated withholds, loopback keeps).
Two parallel public-path allowlists drifted: _PUBLIC_API_PATHS in
hermes_cli/web_server.py (legacy _SESSION_TOKEN middleware) and
_GATE_PUBLIC_PREFIXES in hermes_cli/dashboard_auth/middleware.py
(OAuth gate). The legacy list included /api/status (documented as a
non-sensitive read-only liveness target); the OAuth gate's list did not.
Effect: every wildcard-subdomain agent surfaced as STARTING/down to the
portal even though the dashboard was serving correctly. Nous account
service (src/server/agents/fly-provider.ts
getInstanceRuntimeStatus) fetches ``/api/status`` without a cookie
as its sole liveness probe; the OAuth gate's 401 looked identical to
'agent dead' on the portal side.
Fix: lift the allowlist into hermes_cli/dashboard_auth/public_paths.py
and have both middlewares import it. _path_is_public now consults
the shared frozenset first, then falls back to the gate's
auth-bootstrap/static prefix list. Future additions to the public list
hit both gates automatically.
Endpoint inventory (verified safe to remain public):
* /api/status — version, gateway state, active session count,
auth-gate shape. Portal liveness probe target.
* /api/config/defaults — config-defaults feed for the SPA's Config page
* /api/config/schema — config schema for the SPA's Config page
* /api/model/info — model catalogue metadata (context windows)
* /api/dashboard/themes — theme manifests for the skin engine
* /api/dashboard/plugins — plugin manifests for the dashboard
No user data, no session content, no secrets. Same shape an external
monitoring agent would hit on /healthz.
Tests:
* New: test_gated_status_is_public (regression guard with the NAS
fly-provider.ts liveness-probe rationale spelled out in the docstring)
* New: test_other_public_api_paths_are_public_under_gate (parametrised
over the rest of PUBLIC_API_PATHS — proves 401 / 302-to-login is
never the response)
* New: docker integration check #3 in
test_dashboard_oauth_gate_engaged_by_default — /api/status
remains 200 under the gate AND reports auth_required=True so the
portal can distinguish modes
* Updated: test_full_login_round_trip_unlocks_gated_api now probes
/api/sessions instead of /api/status (status is public, so it
can no longer distinguish 'logged in' from 'gate accidentally
disabled')
* Updated: TestApi401Envelope (the no-cookie / invalid-cookie /
dead-cookie tests) probes /api/sessions for the same reason
* Updated: docker integration check #2 in
test_dashboard_oauth_gate_engaged_by_default probes
/api/sessions to prove the gate is intercepting
* Removed: dead _login() helper in
test_dashboard_auth_status_endpoint.py (no longer needed since
/api/status is reachable cold)
Companion to docs/handover/hermes-agent-dashboard-s6-insecure-fix.md
(the --insecure flag fix that shipped earlier).
Phase 7 surfaces the OAuth gate state to users.
web/src/components/AuthWidget.tsx (new):
Sidebar widget that fetches /api/auth/me on mount and renders a
compact 'Logged in as <user_id…> via <provider>' row with a logout
icon. Contract V1 (Nous Portal) emits no email/display_name claims,
so user_id is the display value (truncated to 14 chars + ellipsis);
display_name and email fallthroughs are forward-compat for OQ-C1.
Renders nothing on 401 from /api/auth/me — that's the signal the
gate isn't engaged (loopback mode), in which case the widget would
be confusing.
Logout POSTs /auth/logout (which clears cookies + redirects to
/login) then full-page-navigates to /login itself; the SPA's fetch
wrapper doesn't follow that redirect, so the navigation is explicit.
web/src/App.tsx: mounts <AuthWidget /> above <SidebarFooter />.
Component is self-hiding in loopback mode so there's no need for a
conditional mount.
web/src/lib/api.ts:
- getAuthMe() + logout() helpers
- AuthMeResponse type
- StatusResponse gets optional auth_required + auth_providers fields
so the existing StatusPage can render a gated/loopback badge.
hermes_cli/web_server.py: /api/status payload now includes
- auth_required: bool — whether app.state.auth_required is True
- auth_providers: list[str] — registered DashboardAuthProvider names
Lazy-imports list_providers so early-startup status calls don't
crash if the dashboard_auth module is still being set up.
tests/hermes_cli/test_dashboard_auth_status_endpoint.py: 3 new tests
covering the new status fields in both gated and loopback modes plus
a regression that no existing field got dropped from the payload.
The hermes status CLI is unchanged in this commit — that command
tracks model providers + OAuth credentials, not running-dashboard
state. The /api/status endpoint is the canonical place to query
dashboard auth-gate state, consumed by the React StatusPage already.