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.
When Codex returns 429 usage_limit_reached, Hermes persists the provider's
reset_at on the pool entry and freezes the credential until it elapses --
which can be days out for weekly windows. But the upstream window can
reopen EARLY: the user redeems a banked rate-limit reset (Codex CLI /
ChatGPT UI), upgrades their plan, or OpenAI resets the window. Hermes
never re-checked, so it kept erroring with 'Codex provider quota
exhausted (429); retry after Ns' until a manual re-auth rewrote the
tokens (issue #43747, externally-reset variant).
- hermes_cli/auth.py: add _probe_codex_quota_restored() -- a throttled
(5 min/token) GET of the Codex /usage endpoint; quota counts as
restored when every reported window is <100% used. Add
clear_codex_pool_quota_cooldowns() to lift 429/quota-shaped cooldowns
from persisted pool entries (DEAD and auth-shaped entries untouched).
- resolve_codex_runtime_credentials(): before surfacing a pool-only
cooldown as 'quota exhausted', probe upstream; on a positive probe
clear the cooldown and return the pool credential.
- agent/credential_pool.py: _available_entries() probes frozen
openai-codex entries (clear_expired path only) and unfreezes them when
upstream confirms the reset.
- agent/account_usage.py: a successful /usage reset redemption now
clears persisted pool cooldowns immediately.
Negative paths preserved: probe 429/exhausted/indeterminate keeps the
cooldown; read-only enumeration never probes; non-JWT tokens never
probe (no network in hermetic tests).
