Covers the follow-up hardening: continuation-marker and summary-as-user
tails keep the flagged standalone snapshot (zero-user provenance #69292
verified via _transcript_has_real_user_turn on the projected rows),
stale snapshot rows are refreshed in place, a previously merged snapshot
is stripped before re-injection, and an all-completed todo store injects
nothing (#26981).
After context compression, the preserved todo list was unconditionally
appended as a standalone user message. When the compressed transcript
already ends with a user message (common case), this creates consecutive
user/user turns — a role-alternation violation some providers reject.
Fix: fold the snapshot into the trailing user message (blank-line separated)
when one exists with plain-string content. Falls back to append when the
tail is non-user, empty, or has structured (list) content.
Rebased on current upstream/main.
Closes#53890
Regression test for the exact issue #61932 report: head + an 8-message
protected tail made exclusively of oversized tool pairs. Pre-fix,
compress_start >= compress_end made compress() a pure no-op and the
retry loop ended in 'Cannot compress further'; post-fix the Phase-1
pressure demotion reclaims the tail in one pass while preserving
tool_call/tool_result pairing.
After multiple in-place compactions, short tool-heavy sessions can leave
nearly every remaining message inside protect_last_n while those messages
are huge completed file/tool outputs. The middle compress window then
makes no material token progress and the turn dies with
"Cannot compress further" (#61932).
Cap the prune message floor at the same bound as tail-cut, and under
pressure demote bulky protected-tail tool bodies (keeping a short recent
floor) so preflight can reclaim headroom without wiping the active ask.
Relocates the #20424 wiring: the preflight region moved out of
run_agent.py into agent/turn_context.py (and through the
compression.max_attempts unification, #69315), so the contributor's
elif branch is reapplied at its current home as the else arm of the
threshold dispatch chain.
Integration contracts:
- Byte-identical default: the built-in ContextCompressor inherits
ContextEngine.should_compress_preflight() -> False, so the default
path performs no compression and touches no turn bookkeeping
(pinned by test_builtin_compressor_default_sub_threshold_path_unchanged).
- Attempt-cap: the engine gets exactly ONE compress() pass per turn,
mutually exclusive with the cap-bounded threshold multi-pass loop,
so turn-start passes stay within the resolved
compression.max_attempts budget in every case.
- No-op blocking (#64382 / 377244f7c): an engine pass that no-ops
(_compress_context returns the input list object) neither sets nor
clears preflight_compression_blocked and does not re-baseline the
flush history — a sub-threshold maintenance no-op proves nothing
about over-threshold compressibility.
- Engine exceptions are swallowed at debug level; cooldown/defer/
codex-native gates run before the hook is ever consulted.
Salvaged from #20424 by @Beandon13. Fixes#20316.
Invalid-tool exhaustion and truncated-tool early returns skipped finalize_turn, leaving role=tool transcripts that become tool→user on the next turn for strict providers. Call close_interrupted_tool_sequence before persist on those paths (same as interrupt aborts).
The usage gauge is Nous subscription-cap-only (used_fraction requires a cap;
non-Nous providers emit no headers, so no notice fires). A bare percentage
implied a universal unit that doesn't exist, so report the absolute dollars
used of the cap instead: used = cap - remaining, from micros (money-safe),
clamped to [0, cap]. Still a snapshot at band-crossing (re-emits on band
change, not every turn) to keep the single escalating line and stay quiet on
append-only surfaces (messaging pushes one message per crossing).
Follow-up to the #43755 salvage:
- Update the strict _Pool doubles in tests/run_agent/test_run_agent.py to
accept api_key_hint and assert it carries the agent's failed key.
- Add a real-CredentialPool regression (no mocks) proving the hint routes
exhaustion to the entry whose key actually failed, not pool.current(),
plus the no-hint baseline (#43747 wrong-entry marking).
recover_with_credential_pool() called mark_exhausted_and_rotate() without
api_key_hint, causing it to fall back to current() or _select_unlocked().
When a prior rotation left current() as None, _select_unlocked() returned
the NEXT (healthy) entry instead of the one that actually failed — marking
the wrong credential as exhausted (#43747).
Extract the current API key from agent.api_key (or pool.current().runtime_api_key
as fallback) and pass it as api_key_hint to all 4 call sites.
Hardening for the #59114 salvage: generate real standalone and merged
handoffs with the current compressor and assert classify_summary_content
agrees with _is_context_summary_content and is_compaction_summary_message
on every emitted shape (behavior contract, not a format snapshot), incl.
the flag-stripped DB-reload copy. Also adds the contributor email mapping
for @israellot.
A context-compaction handoff is persisted as an ordinary history message
but is not a real turn. The ACP history replay streamed it as a bare
user/agent message chunk, dropping the in-process _compressed_summary
marker, so ACP frontends (editors, vscode-hermes) rendered the entire
handoff as a regular message.
Tag replayed summary chunks under _meta.hermes (ACP's extensibility
channel), covering all three persistence shapes the compressor emits:
- standalone role="user" handoff -> compactionSummary: true
- standalone role="assistant" handoff (alternation-driven role pick)
-> compactionSummary: true
- merge-into-tail message (preserved tail content + appended summary)
-> containsCompactionSummary: true, a distinct key so clients that
collapse standalone summaries cannot hide the preserved real content
Detection honors the in-process metadata flag and falls back to a new
ContextCompressor.classify_summary_content() content classifier
(standalone/merged/None), so it also works for a DB-reloaded session
that lost the in-memory flag. _is_context_summary_content is now a thin
wrapper over the classifier, keeping existing callers unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Detect a billing wall once (agent/error_classifier → FailoverReason.billing) and
map it to a recovery link + label in one place, then carry that structured
BillingBlock to every surface instead of re-parsing free-form error text per
surface.
- agent/billing_links.py: provider-agnostic slug/host → (label, billing URL)
table (single source of truth), Nous-aware (is_nous routes to the in-app flow);
unknown providers degrade to a readable label with no invented URL.
- conversation_loop: both billing exit paths return a billing_block through one
helper; the guidance message carries the derived URL for every provider.
- gateway forwards billing_block on message.complete (it was dropped).
- @hermes/shared: BillingBlock type shared by desktop + TUI.
Removes Homebrew and PyPI wheel/sdist as Hermes distribution paths while
preserving the supported source, Docker, and Nix workflows.
Changes:
- Removes the Homebrew formula, PyPI publish workflow, sdist manifest
(MANIFEST.in), and wheel/sdist release-attachment logic from scripts/release.py.
- Keeps setuptools metadata and entry points required by editable installs
and Docker/Nix builds, but adds a setup.py guard that rejects wheel/sdist
builds outside a sealed Nix derivation (HERMES_NIX_BUILD=1).
- Removes pip/Homebrew install detection, PyPI update checks, the pip
self-update path, the deprecation-banner state, the postinstall subcommand,
wheel data-directory fallbacks in agent/i18n.py and hermes_constants.py,
and the ACP Registry manifest/version-lockstep release logic.
- Adds /nix/store/ path detection so `nix run` / `nix profile install`
installs (which don't set HERMES_MANAGED) are correctly identified as
"nix" rather than falling through to "git"/"unknown".
- Retired install-method values ("pip", "homebrew") in existing
.install_method stamps (both code-scoped and home-scoped) are ignored by
the allowlist reader and fall through to "unknown" instead of resurrecting
a retired enum value.
- Updates Nix packaging to ship bare runtime data (locales, optional-mcps)
through store symlinks and wrapper env vars instead of wheel data-files.
- Removes the ACP Registry manifest/icon and their version-lockstep tests.
- Deletes or rewrites packaging, pip-update, Homebrew, and ACP Registry
tests; adds parametrized coverage for the packaging build guard covering
BOTH sdist and wheel paths (the guards live in separate cmdclass entries
— a passing sdist test proves nothing about the wheel path).
- Updates installation/platform documentation and related user-facing copy.
- Adjusts the supply-chain scan so deleted install-hook files do not trigger
a finding, while additions or modifications still require the existing
ci-reviewed label gate.
Supported installation paths (unchanged):
- git installer (install.sh)
- Docker
- Nix/NixOS
- editable development installs (uv sync, uv pip install -e ., pip install -e .)
The Codex app-server runtime bypasses the main conversation loop and drives
its own subprocess turn, so it needs first-class hooks rather than the
OpenAI-loop interrupt path.
- `AIAgent.interrupt()` now forwards a hard stop to
`CodexAppServerSession.request_interrupt()`, and `redirect()` uses Codex's
native `turn/steer` protocol instead of cancelling the subprocess.
- `run_turn()` no longer clears an interrupt that arrived during
`ensure_started()`: a stop landing mid-startup is honored before `turn/start`,
and the interrupt event is cleared on every exit path.
- `run_codex_app_server_turn()` mirrors the loop finalizer's interrupt handoff
(surface `interrupted` / `interrupt_message`, then `clear_interrupt()`) on
both the normal and exception early-return paths, so a hard stop can't leave
`_interrupt_requested` stale for the next turn.
A follow-up sent while the model is still generating previously ended the
turn: Hermes kept only the visible partial text (reasoning was display-only),
cleared the loop, and replayed the message as a fresh next turn. If the
correction referred to something that only appeared in the thinking stream,
the model no longer had that context.
Add `AIAgent.redirect(text)`: a corrective interrupt distinct from a hard
stop. It cancels only the in-flight model request (not tool workers or child
agents), stashes the correction under a lock shared with `interrupt()` so a
concurrent `/stop` always wins, and lets the loop rebuild the same logical
iteration. `_apply_active_turn_redirect()` checkpoints the reasoning that was
actually shown to the user plus any visible partial text as an ordinary
assistant message, then appends the correction as a real user turn — never
replaying incomplete signed/encrypted provider reasoning, and keeping strict
role alternation and prompt-cache stability intact. During tool execution it
degrades to `steer()` so a running tool finishes at a safe boundary.
`_fire_reasoning_delta` now only records reasoning that a display callback
actually consumed, so `show_reasoning: false` never leaks hidden provider
thinking into the persisted transcript.
Follow-up for the salvaged #55800 idle-compaction commit:
- turn_context.py: treat a skipped _compress_context (per-session
compression lock held by another path, failure cooldown, anti-thrash
breaker, codex-native routing) as a strict no-op — only re-baseline
conversation_history and re-anchor current_turn_user_idx after a REAL
compaction. Also re-anchor the user-message index after idle compaction
(the PR predates the reanchor helper).
- hermes_cli/config.py: add idle_compact_after_seconds: 0 to
DEFAULT_CONFIG's compression block (the PR only had
cli-config.yaml.example).
- gateway/run.py: add the idle-compaction status wording to
_TELEGRAM_NOISY_STATUS_RE so the new 💤 message stays out of
human-facing chat surfaces (routine compaction is silent by design);
pin it in tests/gateway/test_telegram_noise_filter.py.
- docs: idle_compact_after_seconds in user-guide/configuration.md and
developer-guide/context-compression-and-caching.md parameter table.
- tests/agent/test_idle_compaction_lock_and_guards.py: end-to-end
coverage with a real AIAgent + SessionDB proving the idle path honors
the per-session compression lock (added after the PR), the persisted
failure cooldown, and the anti-thrash breaker, and that the lock is
released after an idle-triggered compaction.
Salvaged from #55800 by @iso2kx. Implements #27579.
Long-lived sessions (e.g. a Telegram thread resumed over hours/days)
accumulate a large context that the existing size-based threshold only
trims once it crosses `threshold × context_window`. Until then every
turn re-reads the full history, which on large-context models can mean
hundreds of K of cache-read tokens per call even across long idle gaps.
Add a time-based trigger that complements (does not replace) the size
threshold: when a session resumes after `compression.idle_compact_after_seconds`
of inactivity, compact the accumulated history up front, before the first
reply. Disabled by default (0), so existing behaviour is unchanged.
The trigger reuses `_last_activity_ts` (the last time the turn loop did
work) to measure the idle gap at turn start, gates the token estimate
behind a cheap gap pre-check, and skips compaction when the context is
already at/below the post-compression target (threshold × target_ratio)
so a short idle thread never pays for a summarization that saves nothing.
It also defers to an active compression-failure cooldown.
The decision is factored into a pure predicate, `_should_idle_compact`,
which is unit-tested without a live agent.
Composing #57835's multi-fossil summary scan with #47274's merged-handoff
unwrap: when the restart-decay path pulls a merged handoff into the
compression window, its genuine prior-tail user content must enter the
summarizer input (folded into the fresh summary) rather than being
dropped with the summary row. Standalone handoffs still drop. The
continuity test now pins the composed contract: recovered verbatim OR
via summarizer input, never silently deleted, never duplicated.
- Three '_previous_summary == "fresh summary"' exact pins and one
transcript-wide fossil-absence pin predated main's deterministic
task-snapshot grounding (761a0b124e), which prepends a
'## Historical Task Snapshot' section to stored summaries and may
quote a folded head turn inside the handoff. Re-pin the contracts
(fresh body present, fossil absent from non-summary messages)
instead of exact strings.
- Add test_restart_simulation_fresh_compressor_does_not_reprotect_head:
a fresh ContextCompressor over a transcript containing a persisted
handoff summary computes the same decayed protected-head boundary
(compress_start base) as a live already-compacted process, and the
first post-restart compaction does not preserve pre-restart head
fossils (#57814).
protect_first_n decay state (compression_count / _previous_summary) is
in-memory only, so a gateway restart re-protected the persisted handoff
summary and head fossils, growing the head unboundedly across
restart+compaction cycles (#57814).
_effective_protect_first_n now probes a bounded resumed-head window for
a persisted handoff summary (by metadata or content prefix) and decays
protection when one is found, before compress_start is computed. The
first post-restart compaction self-heals: stacked summary fossils are
folded into the next summary prompt instead of preserved verbatim,
rehydration is rolled back on abort, deterministic fallback carries a
bounded redacted previous-summary snapshot, and forced user-leading
merged summaries keep the live tail request after the summary end
marker so they stay rehydratable.
Squashed reapply of the 12-commit series from PR #57835 onto current
main (branch was 1210 commits behind; single add/add conflict with the
task-snapshot grounding helpers resolved by keeping both).
Fixes#57814.
- aux summary call on main intentionally omits max_tokens; use .get() in the
telemetry hook (and widen the param type) so the hook never breaks the call
- update test expectation: aux_output_reservation is None on main
- record no_progress failure_class in the no-progress boundary branch
Follow-up for salvaged PR #60444.
Follow-up for salvaged #24279:
- cli-config.yaml.example: document compression.threshold_tokens
(commented-out, default null = disabled)
- contributors/emails: map maly.dan@gmail.com -> DanielMaly
- tests: should_compress() fires at the absolute cap below the pct
threshold (first-fires-wins); DEFAULT_CONFIG ships None and 0/None
are behavior-neutral incl. across update_model(); the small-context
pct floor is unaffected by the cap and re-derives correctly on
model switch
Add compression.threshold_tokens config option that sets an absolute
token cap for auto-compaction. When configured alongside the existing
ratio-based threshold, the effective trigger point is the lower of the
two, so compression never fires later than the user's preferred token
count regardless of which model is active.
This solves the problem where switching between models with different
context windows (e.g. 1M → 400K) shifts the absolute trigger point,
causing premature or delayed compression.
Rework from PR #24279 addressing sweeper feedback:
- The cap is now a first-class compressor configuration value
(threshold_tokens_cap parameter on ContextCompressor.__init__),
not a post-construction patch on the live instance.
- Applied in both __init__ and update_model() so it survives model
switches and fallback activations (the old approach was undone by
update_model() restoring _configured_threshold_percent).
- Clamped to the model's context length so a cap above the window is
a no-op (ratio-based threshold wins).
- Works with max_tokens output-token reservations.
- Added 9 tests covering cap-vs-ratio selection, model switch survival,
context-length clamping, max_tokens interaction, and invalid values.
- Updated user-facing configuration docs.
- Removed unrelated background-review/curator/Honcho changes (main
already contains background-review memory isolation in 973f27e95).
Config example:
compression:
threshold: 0.50
threshold_tokens: 200000 # never compress later than 200K tokens
Compaction summaries persist across sessions and re-enter every subsequent
summarizer prompt, but every redact_sensitive_text() call in
context_compressor.py used default mode: a no-op under
security.redact_secrets:false, and opaque OAuth-callback / URL-userinfo
credentials passed through even when enabled. The stored _previous_summary
also re-entered the iterative-update prompt unredacted.
Add _redact_compaction_text() — redact_sensitive_text(force=True,
redact_url_credentials=True) — and thread it through all compaction text
boundaries: serializer input (content + tool args), deterministic fallback
summary, summarizer LLM output, manual + auto focus topics, the latest-user
task snapshot, and _previous_summary re-entry.
Note: force=True at this boundary intentionally overrides
security.redact_secrets:false — that opt-out targets live tool output, not
persisted summaries.
Salvages the compaction half of #49556 (the redact.py strict-URL half
landed independently via 75af6dc57/62a00a739). Addresses #43666 item 2.
Co-authored-by: AndrewMoryakov <topazd2@gmail.com>
Follow-up for salvaged PR #65453: extend the regression test to dispatch a
real memory_tool add through the store the tool executor wires in, assert the
write persists to memories/MEMORY.md, and assert the external memory provider
(MemoryManager) is still skipped under skip_memory=True. Also map the
contributor email for attribution CI.
Fixes#65429.
Behavioral test constructing a real AIAgent with skip_memory=True and
enabled_toolsets=["memory"] asserts the built-in MemoryStore is created
(store is not None). Also covers the negative case (no memory toolset -> None)
and the normal case (skip_memory=False -> store created).
Follow-ups on top of #64731's cwd/git_repo_root inheritance:
- git_branch joins the parent-row backfill (same NULL-only COALESCE hop):
the Desktop sidebar branch chip otherwise vanishes at every compaction
boundary even though the workspace didn't change.
- Belt-and-suspenders for #59527: compression forks (parent already ended
with end_reason='compression') also inherit the gateway origin columns
(user_id/session_key/chat_id/chat_type/thread_id/display_name/
origin_json) at DB-level child creation. The gateway re-records the peer
after rotation (d5b4879d4), but a hard crash in the window between child
creation and that write left the child unrecoverable by
find_latest_gateway_session_for_peer. Scoped to compression forks only —
delegate/subagent children (parent still live) must NOT inherit routing
keys, or peer recovery could repoint gateway traffic into a subagent's
session.
- Behavioral test driving the real _compress_context rotation path,
asserting the child row carries cwd/git_repo_root/git_branch and the
origin columns.
The salvaged guard from #52276 only fired when a system prompt was
present in messages[] (system is not None after extraction). The live
repro of #52160 is the auto path: the system prompt is passed outside
messages[], so after the second compaction messages[0] is the
assistant-role summary with system=None — and the guard never ran.
Make _ensure_leading_user_turn unconditional, exactly mirroring the
Bedrock Converse adapter ('Converse requires the first message to be
from the user' — convert_messages_to_converse). Add a regression test
building the exact post-double-compaction shape (no system in
messages, messages[0]=assistant summary) asserting the converted
payload leads with a user turn, and update existing fixtures that
started with a bare assistant message to locate roles instead of
indexing result[0].
Anthropic extracts the system prompt into a separate `system` field and
requires messages[0] to be role="user"; a leading assistant turn is rejected
with HTTP 400. After a second context compaction the only surviving leading
anchor is the system prompt, so a summary/handoff message emitted as
role="assistant" becomes the first messages entry once the system prompt is
extracted. Anthropic reports this with a misleading error —
`messages.N: tool_use ids were found without tool_result blocks immediately
after: toolu_...` — even when every tool_use/tool_result pair is adjacent and
matched; the real structural defect is the leading assistant role (#52160).
This is engine-agnostic: it fires for any producer of a leading-assistant
transcript (built-in compressor, the DAG/LCM context engine, session
truncation), unlike the compressor-scoped fix in #52167. The native Bedrock
Converse adapter already guards the same invariant
(convert_messages_to_converse); this mirrors it for the native Anthropic path.
Add _ensure_leading_user_turn() to the convert_messages_to_anthropic
post-processing chain, scoped to the system-extracted case (the production
trigger) so bare assistant-only unit fixtures are unaffected. Adds regression
tests (leading-assistant, leading-assistant-with-adjacent-tool_use, and a
no-op negative control).
Main no longer catches TypeError to fall back — _supported_compression_kwargs
inspects the engine signature and calls once with only accepted kwargs.
Rework the salvaged test to assert a single correctly-shaped call while
keeping heartbeat start/stop and lock-release coverage.
Refresh the agent activity tracker while context compression is blocked in the auxiliary summarizer so gateway watchdogs do not report inactivity during long compactions.
Add regression coverage for successful heartbeats, exception cleanup, touch failures, and strict-signature compressor fallback.
(cherry picked from commit c09e58b7709cc60c5b454701f0ecf840e759222f)
The salvaged estimator ran a per-character Python loop on every
estimate_tokens_rough() call — a ~28,000,000x slowdown vs (len+3)//4 on a
1MB ASCII tool output (measured ~3.0s per call). Gate it:
- str.isascii() O(1) fast path keeps pure-ASCII text bit-identical to the
classic (len+3)//4 rule at ~1.3x baseline cost (0.23us vs 0.17us per
1MB call).
- Non-ASCII text counts dense CJK chars via a compiled character-class
regex in C (len(text) - len(re.sub(''))): ~352ms/1MB hangul vs ~2.1s
for the per-char loop.
- Non-ASCII-but-non-CJK text (accents, Cyrillic, emoji) keeps the classic
rule.
Also: parity tests against the per-char reference implementation, and
updated two stale expectations that encoded the old behavior (CJK now
counted ~1 token/char; short string content now ceil-divided instead of
floored to 0). The continuity test now detects merged-into-tail summaries
via _is_context_summary_content.
Follow-up to the salvaged #64010 (Kenmege) and #63870 (dombejar) commits,
making one resolved compression.max_attempts cap govern ALL per-turn
compression attempt sites:
- conversation_loop: resolve max_compression_attempts ONCE at turn start
(it was previously re-resolved inside the API-call loop) and route the
pre-API pressure gate through it — that gate still hardcoded
'compression_attempts < 3' and logged 'attempt=%s/3'.
- conversation_loop: the salvaged post-tool compaction gate now uses the
resolved cap instead of a hardcoded 3.
- turn_context: the preflight compaction loop was 'for _pass in range(3)';
it now sizes itself from the same resolved cap.
- agent_init: harden the max_attempts parser — reject booleans (bool
subclasses int; 'true' would coerce to 1), reject fractional floats
instead of truncating them, keep accepting integral floats and numeric
strings; anything else falls back to 3 (floor 1, ceiling 10 unchanged).
- tests: replace #63870's inspect.getsource source-shape test with
behavioral loop tests (post-tool compaction fires <= cap times per turn,
shares its budget with the pre-API gate, resets between turns); add an
e2e test proving a 4th preflight pass runs at config cap=6 while the
unset default still stops at 3; extend the #64010 config tests with the
bool/float parser semantics.
Salvages #64010 by @Kenmege and #63870 by @dombejar.
The conversation loop hardcodes max_compression_attempts = 3. Sessions
that legitimately need more rounds are stranded: on a restart history
reload, incompressible tool schemas can keep the per-request estimate
above the compressor threshold even though the message floor compresses
correctly, so three rounds cannot clear it and the turn dies with
"Context length exceeded: max compression attempts (3) reached" — the
same failure class as #62605, where the rough estimate similarly leaves
3 retries short.
Make the cap a config key, compression.max_attempts:
- default 3 = identical to today, so an unset key is behavior-neutral;
- parsed and validated in agent_init alongside the other compression.*
keys (>= 1, hard-capped at 10, non-integer values fall back to 3),
attached as agent.max_compression_attempts;
- the loop reads it via getattr(agent, "max_compression_attempts", 3),
so objects without the attribute keep the prior behavior;
- documented in the DEFAULT_CONFIG compression block.
Tests pin the parse/validate/attach seam: default preserved, custom
value honored, floor and ceiling enforced, garbage tolerated, and the
loop-side getattr degradation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Snapshot values applied by external secret sources per resolved HERMES_HOME so a later profile cannot replace an earlier profile scope through shared os.environ.
Keep provider and credential-pool fallback reads on the active secret scope, and fail closed on unscoped multiplex reads.
Tests: scripts/run_tests.sh tests/test_env_loader_secret_sources.py tests/test_env_loader_op_bootstrap.py tests/agent/test_secret_scope.py tests/agent/test_credential_pool.py tests/tools/test_credential_pool_env_fallback.py tests/hermes_cli/test_xiaomi_provider.py tests/cron/test_run_one_job.py tests/hermes_cli/test_api_key_providers.py tests/gateway/test_multiplex_credential_isolation.py -q (395 passed)
fdab380a1 wraps every cron job in a <home>/.env secret scope regardless of
deployment mode. get_secret() treats any installed scope as authoritative,
so in single-profile deployments where provider keys live only in the
process environment (systemd Environment=, pass-cli/op run wrappers, shell
exports) every cron credential read returns empty, the OpenAI client is
built with the no-key-required placeholder, and each scheduled job 401s —
while interactive turns keep working. Scope-miss reads now fall through to
os.environ when multiplexing is off; multiplexed scopes stay authoritative.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
