When automatic fallback activates a provider that differs from the
primary, try_activate_fallback() cleared the primary's pool (to avoid
cross-provider base_url contamination, #33163) but never loaded the
fallback provider's own pool. The fallback then ran with no pool, so
rate_limit/billing/auth recovery couldn't rotate its credentials.
After clearing a mismatched pool, load_pool(fb_provider) and attach it
when it has credentials, so provider-specific rotation continues to
work on the fallback target.
switch_model() swapped model/provider/base_url/api_key but never
refreshed agent._credential_pool, which stays bound to the original
provider. recover_with_credential_pool() then sees a pool.provider !=
agent.provider mismatch and short-circuits — so a 429/401 on the new
provider gets no rotation and falls through to fallback instead.
Reload load_pool(new_provider) inside switch_model when the provider
changes (or the pool is missing). The reload is inside the protected
swap block and the pool is added to the rollback snapshot, so a failed
client rebuild restores the original pool.
Fixes#16678, #52727.
test_config_bridges_telegram_group_settings and
test_config_bridges_telegram_user_allowlists asserted the YAML→env bridge
via os.environ. A developer's real ~/.hermes/.env can repopulate TELEGRAM_*
vars during load_gateway_config(): the microsoft_teams plugin runs
load_dotenv(find_dotenv(usecwd=True)) at import time, which walks up from the
cwd (under ~/.hermes/ in worktrees) and reloads the user's .env, defeating the
env-over-YAML bridge for any key present there (e.g. TELEGRAM_GROUP_ALLOWED_CHATS).
Assert the returned PlatformConfig.extra instead — it is parsed straight from
the test's config.yaml and is immune to that ambient leak. free_response_chats
is bridged to the env var only (not extra), and TELEGRAM_FREE_RESPONSE_CHATS
doesn't appear in developer .env files, so it stays a deterministic os.environ
assertion.
The Telegram/Discord /model command's actual switch calls switch_model()
directly on the asyncio event loop. switch_model() can fall through to a
synchronous models.dev HTTP fetch (requests.get, 15s timeout) on a cold or
expired cache, freezing the gateway for up to 15s and dropping the Telegram
connection while a user switches models.
The picker provider-list and fallback text-list sites were already offloaded
(#41289), but the two _switch_model() calls — the picker callback and the
direct /model <name> path — were not. Wrap both in asyncio.to_thread.
Closes#20525.
The adapter-level intake gate (_is_dm_allowed / _is_group_allowed, reached
via _should_process_message) did a raw set-membership check against the
configured allowlist. WhatsApp now delivers inbound DM senders in LID form
(<id>@lid) while operators configure allowlists with phone numbers, so the
check never matched and every DM from an allowed contact was silently
dropped before the gateway authz layer ran.
Route both gates through the existing gateway.whatsapp_identity.
expand_whatsapp_aliases helper (already used by gateway authz and session
keys), which walks the bridge's lid-mapping-*.json session files. Phone and
LID forms now resolve to each other in both directions; exact JID matches,
wildcard, disabled/open policies, and empty-allowlist fail-closed behavior
are all preserved.
Fixes#14486
Z.AI / Zhipu reuse HTTP 429 for server-wide overload. The 429 status
path classified these unconditionally as rate_limit with
should_rotate_credential=True, so an overloaded provider exhausted the
credential pool after two errors — fatal for a single-key user, who has
nothing to rotate to.
The credential is valid; the server is just busy. Disambiguate the 429
body against a shared _OVERLOADED_PATTERNS list and route overload
language to FailoverReason.overloaded (retryable, no rotation), matching
the existing 503/529 path and the message-only path (#52890). Genuine
rate limits (no overload language) still rotate.
Extracted the inline overloaded tuple #52890 added into the shared
_OVERLOADED_PATTERNS constant so the status-code and message paths use
one list.
Closes#14038.
_normalize_custom_provider_entry() ran urlparse() on base_url and dropped
any entry whose value was an un-expanded placeholder, so a caller reaching
the normalizer with raw config (e.g. the Dockerized gateway path) silently
skipped the provider with a 'not a valid URL' warning. Skip URL validation
when the candidate contains a placeholder token — both ${ENV_VAR} env-refs
and bare {region}-style templates — since those are expanded at runtime.
Closes#14457
prompt_toolkit's renderer sends ESC[6n cursor-position queries before
painting in non-fullscreen mode; the terminal replies ESC[<row>;<col>R.
Over SSH/cloudflared tunnels and slow PTYs these replies race past the
input parser and land in the display as raw '20;1R21;1R' text, and the
pending-CPR future can stall the renderer so the prompt freezes after the
agent's final answer.
Build the prompt_toolkit output with enable_cpr=False so CPR is marked
NOT_SUPPORTED up front and ESC[6n is never sent. This is the root-cause
counterpart to the existing input-side _strip_leaked_terminal_responses
scrubbing. Vt100_Output.from_pty() does not expose enable_cpr in
prompt_toolkit 3.x, so _build_cpr_disabled_output() reproduces its
get_size setup and calls the constructor directly; it returns None on any
failure so startup falls back to the default output.
Verified in a real PTY: baseline emits 1 ESC[6n query, the fix emits 0,
banner/UI render identically. Layout is unaffected — with CPR off the
renderer sizes the prompt to its preferred height (the same fallback
prompt_toolkit uses on any terminal that doesn't answer CPR).
Co-authored-by: Hermes Agent <noreply@nousresearch.com>
The dashboard Config tab's Model field is a flat string with no provider
info. _denormalize_config_from_web only updated model.default and kept the
stale provider, so picking an OpenRouter model while the default provider was
ollama-local left provider=ollama-local and every call 404'd.
When the model string actually changes, infer the serving provider — curated
catalog first, then a vendor/model-slug heuristic for non-aggregator providers
— and route the switch through the existing _normalize_main_model_assignment /
_apply_main_model_assignment chokepoints so stale base_url/api_mode/api_key are
cleared on a provider change and preserved on a same-provider re-pick. Saving
an unchanged model never re-detects, so unrelated config saves keep an explicit
provider.
Closes#14058
Add an explicit _closing guard to both owned executors so the
recreate-on-shutdown path only recovers from an *external* teardown of
the loop default — never resurrects a pool the gateway/adapter itself
stopped. _shutdown_*executor() sets the flag; _get_*executor() raises if
closing; feishu connect() re-arms on reconnect. Updates the gateway
recreate test to assert the refusal contract and adds feishu coverage.
Feishu SDK calls ran on asyncio's shared default executor, so a torn-down
default executor wedged every send with 'Executor shutdown has been called'
and left the gateway a zombie (#10849). The adapter now owns a
ThreadPoolExecutor recreated on demand if shut down, mirroring the
gateway-owned executor change. Routes all 17 self._client SDK calls through
_run_blocking; shuts the pool down on disconnect.
Follow-up to the #13971 fix: a genuine native Ollama provider reached
through a reverse proxy carries no ollama/:11434 URL signature, so the
restricted detection would miss it. Add provider=="ollama" as an
explicit True case (idea from #14789, @Tranquil-Flow) and cover both it
and the #13971 LiteLLM-proxy-to-zai false-positive with E2E tests.
The _is_ollama_glm_backend() function was too broad: any local endpoint
running a GLM model was treated as Ollama, triggering the stop->length
misreport heuristic introduced in 8011aa3. This caused false truncation
detection on sglang, vLLM, LM Studio, and other non-Ollama servers that
correctly report finish_reason.
When a GLM model on sglang/vLLM returned finish_reason='stop', the agent
mistakenly reclassified it as 'length' if the response didn't end with
a whitelisted punctuation character (ASCII or CJK). This particularly
affected Chinese-language responses and Markdown-formatted text.
Root cause: the is_local_endpoint() fallback assumed any local GLM
endpoint = Ollama. But many non-Ollama servers also run on localhost.
Fix: remove the is_local_endpoint() catch-all. Only detect Ollama via
its distinctive signatures (port 11434, 'ollama' in URL). All other
local servers are assumed to report finish_reason correctly.
This is the correct tradeoff because:
- False negatives (Ollama at custom port, heuristic not triggered) only
mean the user sees a truncated response — same as having no heuristic
- False positives (non-Ollama server, heuristic wrongly triggered) inject
spurious continuation messages into the conversation — strictly worse
Adds two tests:
- sglang GLM response is NOT reclassified as truncated
- Ollama GLM on port 11434 still triggers the heuristic as before
Co-authored-by: Hermes Agent <hermes@nousresearch.com>
TELEGRAM_HOME_CHANNEL set to an @username (not a numeric chat ID) crashed
all webhook/cron->Telegram home-channel delivery with 'ValueError: invalid
literal for int()'. The Telegram Bot API accepts both a numeric chat_id and
an @username string; Hermes was force-coercing every chat_id with int().
Add normalize_telegram_chat_id() (returns int for numeric values, passes
@username strings through) and apply it at the Bot API send/edit sites in
the Telegram adapter and the send_message tool. Username targets are now
recognized as explicit targets in _parse_target_ref.
Reapplies the approach from #13274 (season179), whose branch predated the
gateway/platforms/telegram.py -> plugins/platforms/telegram/adapter.py
relocation. Dupes: #13535 (Tranquil-Flow), #37572 (chewkaah).
Co-authored-by: season179 <season.saw@gmail.com>
Follow-up on the cherry-picked #13173 fix. Holds the _run_restart task in
self._restart_task (a bare asyncio.create_task keeps only a weak reference,
so a still-pending task can be GC'd mid-flight) and explicitly skips it in
the _stop_impl cancel loop alongside _stop_task. Adds AUTHOR_MAP entry for
the contributor and a regression test that fails when the task is cancellable.
Refs #12875
When request_restart() adds _run_restart to _background_tasks, _stop_impl
later cancels all entries in that set. Since _run_restart is awaiting
_stop_task at that point, the CancelledError propagates into _stop_impl,
interrupting cleanup before _shutdown_event.set() and _exit_code = 75
execute. This leaves the gateway as a zombie (alive but disconnected) or
exiting with code 0 instead of 75, preventing systemd Restart=on-failure
from restarting the service.
Fix: don't add _run_restart to _background_tasks — it self-terminates in
~50ms and needs no lifecycle management.
Fixes#12875
Regression tests for the self-author guard added in the salvaged fix:
- bot-authored DM-topic watcher echo is dropped (the exact #11905 symptom)
- bot self-messages dropped in groups/supergroups too
- other bots in the same chat are still processed (self-id, not is_bot)
- observe-unmentioned sibling path also rejects self-messages
- missing from_user does not crash
Test scaffolding ported from @cola-runner's PR #12817 and adapted to the
current plugins/platforms/telegram/adapter.py and _is_own_message().
A profile's cron jobs now provably live in AND execute under that profile's
HERMES_HOME. A job authored under profile `coder` is stored at
`~/.hermes/profiles/coder/cron/jobs.json` and runs with coder's .env,
config.yaml, scripts and skills — never the default root's.
This was the de-facto behavior on main but only by accident: PR #50112 had
re-anchored cron storage at the shared default root, and a later stale-branch
squash merge (#52147) silently reverted it back to the profile home. Neither
direction was guarded by a test, so it could flip again on the next stale merge.
Changes:
- cron/jobs.py: document the per-profile storage anchor (get_hermes_home, NOT
get_default_hermes_root) and why anchoring at the root leaks
config/credentials/skills across profiles — the #4707 security boundary.
- cron/scheduler.py, cron/suggestions.py: same intent documented at the
dynamic resolution helper and the suggestions store.
- tests/cron/test_cron_profile_isolation.py: pin storage, lock-path, and
execution-home resolution to the active profile so a re-anchor can't regress.
Verified E2E: jobs created under two profiles land in separate per-profile
stores with zero cross-profile leakage and no shared-root store; scheduler
execution-home follows the active profile. Full cron suite: 576/576.
The curator_env fixture left async review threads (synchronous=False spawns
a daemon 'curator-review' thread that calls save_state() on completion)
running past test teardown. save_state() resolves the state path from
HERMES_HOME at write time, so a straggler could write into the next test's
tmp home, corrupting test_state_file_survives_corrupt_read (and others)
under CI load. Join the thread on teardown while HERMES_HOME is still
pinned to this test's home.
Lock the contract that a clean stream-queue termination followed by an
agent failure never reports finish_reason: "stop". Covers the raised-
exception case (#12422 repro), the flagged failed-result case, truncation
(length), and the success happy path.
Follow-up to the salvaged #12504 fix from @flobo3.
The dashboard form is built from CONFIG_SCHEMA, which doesn't enumerate
every root-level key the YAML supports. Most visibly, `custom_providers`
is in `_KNOWN_ROOT_KEYS` but is absent from the schema — so the frontend
never sends it in the PUT body. The previous full-replace save() then
silently wiped the key from disk every time the user clicked anything
that triggered a save. Other casualties (less visible because defaults
re-mask them on load) include `agent.personalities`,
`agent.reasoning_effort`, `terminal.lifetime_seconds`, etc.
Fix: read the raw on-disk config and deep-merge the incoming PUT body
on top of it before saving. The frontend can only overwrite what it
explicitly sends; everything else is preserved verbatim.
Reuses the existing `_deep_merge` helper from `hermes_cli.config`.
Tests:
- `test_round_trip_preserves_custom_providers` exercises the exact bug:
seed config with custom_providers, GET → drop the key → PUT,
assert it's still on disk.
- `test_round_trip_preserves_schema_invisible_nested_keys` covers the
shallow-vs-deep-merge case for nested dicts under `agent` etc.
Both fail on current main; both pass with this patch.
The 'whatsapp' and 'signal' PLATFORM_HINTS told the agent 'Please do not
use markdown as it does not render' — factually wrong. Both adapters
actively convert markdown to native formatting:
- whatsapp_common.format_message(): **bold**, ~~strike~~, # headers,
links, code blocks -> WhatsApp native syntax
- signal_format.markdown_to_signal(): same conversions via bodyRanges,
plus '- item' / '* item' bullets -> '• ' Unicode bullets
The wrong hint made the agent strip bullets and bold the adapter would
have rendered (#12224). Rewrote both hints to mirror whatsapp_cloud:
markdown is auto-converted, bullet lists work, tables are not supported.
Added a contract test asserting markdown-converting platforms never
forbid markdown in their hint.
Follow-up on the salvaged MoA restore fix:
- Extract the finally-block restore into _restore_moa_one_shot() so the
behavior is unit-testable without re-implementing it, and so the gateway
/moa handler and the finally block share one implementation.
- Restore the load-bearing #28686 zombie-eviction comment above
_release_running_agent_state that the original diff dropped.
- Rewrite the tests to call the real _restore_moa_one_shot helper (the
originals re-implemented the restore logic inline, so they passed
regardless of the production code).
The MoA one-shot restore ran inside the try block after
_handle_message_with_agent returned. When that call raised an
exception (agent init failure, interpreter shutdown, OOM), the
restore was skipped and the MoA model override stayed permanently
on _session_model_overrides — silently routing all subsequent
messages through the MoA reference fan-out with no user-visible
indication.
Move the restore to the finally block so it fires on every exit
path (success, exception, interrupt). The restore data lives on
the per-turn event object and would be lost if not consumed here.
The verify-on-stop guard fired too eagerly — including on doc/markdown/skill
edits with nothing to verify, where it pushed a pointless /tmp verification
script. Three changes:
1. Default OFF for new installs: agent.verify_on_stop defaults to false
(was the "auto" surface-aware sentinel). _config_version bumped 30 -> 31.
2. One-time migration (v30 -> v31): existing installs are switched off once,
but only when the value is missing or still the "auto" sentinel — an
explicit true/false the user set is preserved.
3. Path filter: build_verify_on_stop_nudge() now drops documentation/prose
paths (.md/.mdx/.rst/.txt/LICENSE/CHANGELOG/...) so even when explicitly
enabled, a doc-only turn never nudges. Mixed doc+code turns still nudge on
the code paths.
The legacy "auto" sentinel is still honored when set explicitly (ON for
interactive coding surfaces, OFF for messaging). HERMES_VERIFY_ON_STOP env
override unchanged.
/moa no longer does a sticky model switch. It now always runs a single
prompt through the default MoA preset and restores the prior model
afterward; the whole argument is the prompt (no preset-name matching).
To switch to a MoA preset for the session, select it from the model
picker, where presets already surface under a virtual Mixture of Agents
provider on every model-selection surface.
Also fixes#53444: the TUI one-shot only set session[model_override],
which the already-built cached agent ignored, so MoA silently never ran
and the turn used the original model. The TUI now does a real in-place
agent.switch_model() via _apply_model_switch() when a live agent exists
(with a proper restore after the turn), and falls back to a model_override
for lazy/unbuilt sessions.
Removes the redundant sticky-switch branch from the CLI, gateway, and TUI
/moa handlers; updates the command description, usage string, and docs.
Add post_setup() and get_status_config() to the Supermemory memory
provider so `hermes memory setup` and `hermes memory status` print a
one-line connection summary (container, profile fact count,
auto_recall/auto_capture). Point API-key onboarding at the Hermes
connect URL (app.supermemory.ai/integrations?connect=hermes).
Salvage of #52988. Two fixes folded in:
- Test isolation: the new probe/status tests mocked _SupermemoryClient
but not the __import__("supermemory") guard inside
_probe_supermemory_connection, so they passed only where the optional
supermemory package was installed and failed on a clean checkout / CI
(the PR shipped with red CI). Added _stub_supermemory_importable()
mirroring the existing test_is_available_false_when_import_missing
pattern; the suite now passes with supermemory absent.
- post_setup: `if api_key and api_key not in os.environ` checked whether
the key's *value* named an env var (always false in practice). Fixed to
compare the value: `os.environ.get("SUPERMEMORY_API_KEY") != api_key`.
Verified: 38/38 in test_supermemory_provider.py and the full
tests/plugins/memory/ suite green with supermemory not installed.
Closes#52988
Populate `reply_to_message_id`, `reply_to_text`, and
`reply_to_is_own_message` on reaction events so the gateway injects
`[Replying to your previous message: "..."]` when the agent receives
a tapback.
The sidecar now extracts a capped text preview from the hydrated
reaction target (plain text and mixed group messages; null for
attachment/voice-only targets), emitting it as `targetText` in the
NDJSON reaction payload. The Python adapter reads this field and sets
the reply correlation fields on the `MessageEvent`.
v8 made `richlink` outbound-only; inbound rich links now arrive as
plain `text`. Remove the `getBalloonBundleId`/`toRichlinkMessage`
branches from the iMessage mapper patch and update the fixture,
lockfile, and README accordingly.
Update the Photon platform plugin's Node.js sidecar from spectrum-ts
3.1.0 to 7.0.0, which splits the SDK into scoped `@spectrum-ts/*`
packages with `spectrum-ts` as the umbrella re-export.
- Bump exact pin in package.json/package-lock.json to 7.0.0
- Update mixed-attachments patch script to target the new
`@spectrum-ts/imessage/dist/index.js` path and tab-indented output
- Rewrite test fixture to match v7.x mapper shape (tab-indented,
`const ... = async` declarations, single-line builder calls) and
point at `@spectrum-ts/imessage/dist/index.js`
- Update README upgrade guide to document the v5 package split and
the postinstall patch validation step
- Update comments in cli.py and index.mjs to reference v5/v7 changes
A model selected via the CLI (e.g. /model openrouter/<uncurated-name>) was
absent from every model picker — the main picker AND the MoA reference/
aggregator slot pickers — because each provider row only carried its curated
catalog. Inject the current model at the front of its provider's row so it is
selectable and shown everywhere.
The self-hosted OIDC provider fetched the discovery document with a bare
httpx.get(). httpx defaults to follow_redirects=False (unlike curl -L or
the requests library), so when an IDP answers GET
/.well-known/openid-configuration with a 3xx — Authentik canonicalises the
.well-known path, and any IDP behind a reverse proxy doing an http→https
upgrade redirects too — the bare redirect (empty body) tripped the
status != 200 guard and raised 'OIDC discovery returned 302', which
routes.py maps to the provider_unreachable audit event and a 503. The
browser surfaced 'Auth provider self-hosted unreachable'.
The user's smoking gun (curl -o writing zero bytes from inside the
container) is exactly a redirect with no body — the same wall the code hit.
Add follow_redirects=True to the discovery GET only. It's safe: the
issuer-pin check and _require_https_or_loopback still validate the resolved
document and every endpoint, so a redirect can't smuggle in a bad issuer or
a cleartext endpoint. The token/revocation POSTs deliberately keep the
no-follow default (they carry an auth code / refresh token and the endpoint
is already the canonical absolute URL).
Existing discovery tests mocked httpx.get with a canned 200 and never
exercised a real 3xx. Add a regression test that runs a real loopback
server returning a 302 on the .well-known path — fails without the fix
(ProviderError: discovery returned 302), passes with it.
* Return None instead of erroring on drain login failure
* Fix login on drain
* Remove login for drained endpoints flow and clean the code
* chore: drop unrelated credits changes from this PR
* Remove extra comments that were not really necessary
The backgrounding-contract test (test_prepare_agent_startup_backgrounds_
blocking_mcp_for_chat) failed intermittently on loaded CI shards: it stubs
tools.mcp_tool.discover_mcp_tools but NOT tools.mcp_oauth, so the background
discovery thread paid the real, cold ~0.75s 'import tools.mcp_oauth' (added by
this PR's _discover_mcp_tools_without_interactive_oauth) before calling the
stubbed discovery. On a slow/loaded runner that import plus thread scheduling
exceeded the 1.0s polling deadline, leaving calls['mcp'] == 0.
Fix: stub tools.mcp_oauth with a nullcontext suppress_interactive_oauth (the
same no-op production falls back to when mcp_oauth is unavailable), so the
test exercises the backgrounding contract without paying an unrelated cold
import in its timing window. Bumped the poll deadline 1.0s -> 3.0s as
belt-and-suspenders. Production behaviour is unchanged; the import cost was
always off the main thread.
Verified: 5/5 pass repeatedly via scripts/run_tests.sh (per-file isolation,
matching CI), ruff clean.
When an MCP server requires OAuth, the interactive `hermes` TUI froze on
startup: background MCP discovery hit the OAuth flow, which on an interactive
TTY spawns a daemon thread doing a blocking `sys.stdin.readline()` (the
"paste the redirect URL" fallback in mcp_oauth._wait_for_callback). That
thread competes with the TUI's own stdin reader for the same terminal, so
keystrokes get swallowed and the TUI appears frozen (up to the 300s OAuth
timeout). Reported symptom: "MCP OAuth: authorization required / Open this URL
... the tui is freezing, not respond to typing."
Add a thread-local `suppress_interactive_oauth()` context manager in
tools/mcp_oauth.py; `_is_interactive()` returns False while it's active, so the
stdin paste-thread and prompt are never created. Background discovery
(hermes_cli/mcp_startup.py, tui_gateway/entry.py) now runs discovery inside
that context, so OAuth-requiring servers soft-skip (raise
OAuthNonInteractiveError, already handled) instead of stealing the TUI's stdin.
A real `hermes mcp login` on the main thread is unaffected (thread-local).
Salvaged from #35945 by @zapabob (authorship preserved via cherry-pick;
resolved a conflict against main's new mcp_discovery_timeout / wait_for_mcp_
discovery refactor, keeping both). Verified E2E: with suppression the paste
prompt is NOT printed and no stdin thread spawns (raises OAuthNonInteractive
soft-skip); without it the prompt shows (the freeze). Mutation-verified
(removing the suppress check in _is_interactive fails the regression test).
76 tests pass, ruff clean.
Closes#35927.
SELF-REVIEW FIX: the original #35945 used threading.local(), which does NOT
propagate to the dedicated mcp-event-loop thread where OAuth actually runs
(discover_mcp_tools dispatches the connect via run_coroutine_threadsafe), so
the suppression was a NO-OP in production (the tests passed only by stubbing
out the cross-thread dispatch). Converted to a contextvars.ContextVar, which
asyncio copies onto the scheduled coroutine — empirically verified suppression
now holds on the mcp-event-loop thread through the real _run_on_mcp_loop path.
Added a cross-thread regression test (fails on threading.local, passes on the
ContextVar) so the no-op can't regress.
get_hermes_dir(new_subpath, old_name) returned the legacy <old_name>/
location as soon as it existed on disk — even when empty. When an empty
legacy stub is created on a profile that already has populated data at
the new consolidated <new_subpath>/ (install scaffolds, profile init, a
stray mkdir, or ensure_hermes_home() recreating legacy dirs), the
resolver silently flipped to the empty legacy dir and the real data
became invisible. No log, no error — the feature behaved as if state was
wiped. Reproduced as a Discord pairing store losing every approved user
when an empty pairing/ shadowed the populated platforms/pairing/.
Resolve the legacy path only when it has content: a populated directory
(any entry) or a non-directory file counts; an empty directory falls
through to the new layout. Inspection failures (PermissionError on
lstat/iterdir, or any OSError short of FileNotFoundError) are treated as
"occupied" so a transient error never orphans legacy data — only a
genuine FileNotFoundError counts as absent. The lstat()-based gate also
fixes the prior exists()/is_dir() path swallowing PermissionError and
mis-reading an unreadable legacy dir as absent.
This hardens all 11+ call sites that share the resolver (pairing,
image/audio/video/document caches, matrix/whatsapp session stores,
vision/credential/tts/browser dirs).
Adds TestGetHermesDir regression coverage (empty/populated/subdir/file/
unreadable/unstatable cases) and updates test_credential_files to
populate its legacy dirs so they still count as content.
Closes#27602Closes#27715
The existing test_chat_gateways_redact_secret_in_provider_error feeds a
provider-error envelope (HTTP 401), which _sanitize_gateway_final_response
rewrites wholesale to a generic category string. That rewrite strips the
secret regardless of whether the redaction layer works, so the test cannot
on its own prove _redact_gateway_user_facing_secrets is exercised.
Add test_chat_gateways_redact_secret_in_non_error_body: ordinary assistant
prose that echoes a bearer token but is NOT a provider-error envelope, so
the rewrite path does not fire and secret redaction is the only defense.
Verified fail-before (token leaks when _GATEWAY_SECRET_PATTERNS is emptied)
and pass-after across whatsapp/slack/signal/matrix, while non-secret prose
is preserved intact.