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.
Completes #51690 on top of the salvaged #60378 timeout metadata:
- async_delegation: terminal 'stalled' events now carry structured
stall context (stalled_after_quiet_seconds, stall_threshold_seconds,
stall_phase idle|in_tool, stall_grace_seconds) on both single and
batch paths, persisted in the durable row so restart-restored events
keep it. Mirrors the sync path's timeout_seconds/timed_out_after_
seconds/timeout_phase from #60378.
- list_async_delegations(): exposes seconds_since_progress and live
children_activity (per-child api_calls, current_tool,
seconds_since_activity) sampled from the dispatch's progress_fn
outside the records lock; private monitor bookkeeping and callables
never leak.
- /agents (CLI + gateway): background delegations render per-child
activity rows, quiet-time hints, and the stalling state; gateway
section is new (previously async delegations were invisible there).
New locale key gateway.agents.background_delegations in all 17
catalogs.
Tests: stall-metadata event shape, live-listing projection, gateway
/agents rendering (real registry dispatch, sabotage-verified), sync
timeout metadata fields, non-timeout None contract.
