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.
On macOS, Unix domain socket paths are capped at 104 bytes (sun_path).
SSH appends a 16-byte random suffix to the ControlPath when operating
in ControlMaster mode. With an IPv6 host embedded literally in the
filename and a deeply-nested macOS $TMPDIR like
/var/folders/XX/YYYYYYYYYYYY/T/, the full path reliably exceeds the
limit — every terminal/file-op tool call then fails immediately with
``unix_listener: path "…" too long for Unix domain socket``.
Swap the ``user@host:port.sock`` filename for a sha256-derived 16-char
hex digest. The digest is deterministic for a given (user, host, port)
triple, so ControlMaster reuse across reconnects is preserved, and the
full path fits comfortably under the limit even after SSH's random
suffix. Collision space is 2^64 — effectively unreachable for the
handful of concurrent connections any single Hermes process holds.
Regression tests cover: path length under realistic macOS $TMPDIR with
the IPv6 host from the issue report, determinism for reconnects, and
distinctness across different (user, host, port) triples.
Closes#11840
- Modal snapshot tests: accept **kw in iter_skills_files/iter_cache_files
mock lambdas to match new container_base kwarg
- SSH preflight test: mock _detect_remote_home, _ensure_remote_dirs,
init_session, and FileSyncManager added in file sync PR
- Docker env tests: verify _build_init_env_args() instead of per-execute
Popen flags (env forwarding is now init-time only)
- Docker: preserve explicit forward_env bypass of blocklist from main
- Daytona tests: adapt to SDK-native timeout, _ThreadedProcessHandle,
base.py interrupt handling, HERMES_STDIN_ heredoc prefix
- Modal tests: fix _load_module to include _ThreadedProcessHandle stub,
check ensurepip in _resolve_modal_image instead of __init__
- SSH tests: mock time.sleep on base module instead of removed ssh import
- Add missing BaseEnvironment attributes to __new__()-based test fixtures
SSH persistent shell now defaults to true — non-local backends benefit
most from state persistence across execute() calls. Local backend
remains opt-in via TERMINAL_LOCAL_PERSISTENT env var.
New config.yaml option: terminal.persistent_shell (default: true)
Controls the default for non-local backends. Users can disable with:
hermes config set terminal.persistent_shell false
Precedence: per-backend env var > TERMINAL_PERSISTENT_SHELL > default.
Wired through cli.py, gateway/run.py, and hermes_cli/config.py so the
config.yaml value reaches terminal_tool via env var bridge.