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.
Selecting 'Mixture of Agents' in the `hermes model` provider picker fell
through silently — select_provider_and_model had no moa branch, so it just
reprinted the current model/provider summary and exited. And the CLI session
banner rendered the bare preset name (e.g. 'opus-gpt · Nous Research'),
which is meaningless out of context.
- Add _model_flow_moa: always lists the available presets (even one), then
prints the full reference-models + aggregator breakdown for the selection
and persists model.provider=moa / model.default=<preset> (dropping stale
base_url + endpoint creds, since moa is a virtual local provider).
- Wire the branch into select_provider_and_model.
- build_welcome_banner takes provider; when 'moa' it renders
'MoA: <preset> · agg <aggregator>' instead of a bare slug. Both CLI call
sites pass self.provider.
Tests: 2 new banner tests (moa + non-moa unchanged); E2E verified the picker
persists the preset and clears stale base_url/api_key.
The welcome banner's 'Available Tools' merged in every toolset from the
global check_tool_availability() registry walk, regardless of whether it
was enabled for the current platform. On a Blank Slate CLI (file +
terminal only) that surfaced discord / feishu / kanban tools the agent
was never actually given — they are not in the agent's tool schema, but
the banner displayed them, making it look like they were exposed.
- Filter the unavailable-toolset merge to toolsets actually in
enabled_toolsets (a toolset that's enabled but has unmet deps still
legitimately shows as disabled/lazy).
- Gate the 'Available Skills' section on the skills toolset being
enabled — when it's off, the agent can't load any skill, so show
'Skills toolset disabled' instead of the on-disk catalog.
When enabled_toolsets is empty (older callers), behavior is unchanged.
Validation: blank-slate banner now shows only file + terminal and
'Skills toolset disabled'; a skills-enabled banner still lists the
catalog. Added regression tests; full banner suite green (15/15).
get_mcp_status() treated every non-connected server as a failure, so a
server configured with enabled: false rendered as red '— failed' in the
startup banner even though it was intentionally off. Add a 'disabled'
field derived from the enabled flag and render disabled servers dim as
'— disabled' instead.
Wrap the existing version label in the welcome-banner panel title
('Hermes Agent v… · upstream … · local …') with an OSC-8 terminal
hyperlink pointing at the latest git tag's GitHub release page
(https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/<tag>).
Clickable in modern terminals (iTerm2, WezTerm, Windows Terminal,
GNOME Terminal, Kitty, etc.); degrades to plain text on terminals
without OSC-8 support. No new line added to the banner.
New get_latest_release_tag() helper runs 'git describe --tags
--abbrev=0' in the Hermes checkout (3s timeout, per-process cache,
silent fallback for non-git/pip installs and forks without tags).
- Strip '_tools' suffix from internal toolset identifiers in the banner
(e.g. 'web_tools' -> 'web', 'homeassistant_tools' -> 'homeassistant')
- Stop appending '_tools' to unavailable toolset names
- Replace 6 hardcoded hex colors (#B8860B, #FFBF00, #FFF8DC) in toolset
rows, overflow line, and MCP server rows with the skin variables
(dim, accent, text) already resolved at the top of the function
Inspired by PR #1871 by @kshitijk4poor.
Adds 4 tests.
