Follow-up to the #55780 dead-target not_found blast-radius fix (merged in
#56225). classify_send_error and is_chat_level_not_found each built their own
lowercased error blob, but divergently: classify_send_error appended the
exception CLASS NAME while is_chat_level_not_found did not. A caller passing
exc= to both could get inconsistent answers on the same failure.
- Extract _error_blob(exc, error_text) as the single source of truth both
classifiers use (str(exc) when non-empty + class name; no stray leading
space).
- Align is_chat_level_not_found's signature to (exc, error_text), matching
classify_send_error, removing the swapped-positional footgun; update the
sole caller and the three tests to keyword form.
- Add a regression guard asserting _error_blob keeps the class name.
Surfaced by the hermes-pr-review Phase 2c structured review of #56225.
#55115 added the dead-target registry so confirmed-dead delivery targets are
short-circuited. Its documented scope (gateway/dead_targets.py) is deliberately
narrow: only *whole-chat* deaths -- the `forbidden` and chat-level `not_found`
(`chat not found`) kinds -- should be recorded; "Thread/topic-level not_found is
NOT recorded here ... a deleted topic does not mean the parent chat is dead."
But the implementation doesn't honor that scope. classify_send_error collapses
chat-level "chat not found" AND thread/message-level not_found ("thread not
found", "topic_deleted", "message_id_invalid", "message to edit/reply not
found") into one "not_found" kind, _DEAD_ERROR_KINDS contains "not_found"
wholesale, and deliver()'s except marks the PARENT chat_id dead. So a single
deleted Telegram topic or edited-away message permanently marks the entire chat
(and every future scheduled / cron / agent delivery to it) dead -- silently. The
adapter self-heal the docstring relies on only covers the non-private-group
thread retry; named-DM-topic and message-level failures propagate to deliver()'s
except and wrongly kill the whole chat.
Add is_chat_level_not_found() (factoring the not_found substrings into chat-level
vs sub-chat-level constants) and gate the delivery dead-path: a "not_found" only
marks the target dead when it is chat-level. classify_send_error's public
contract is unchanged (still returns "not_found" for every shape); only the
mark_dead decision is refined, restoring the registry's documented scope.
Cross-platform: telegram/slack/discord delivery all flow through
classify_send_error -> mark_dead. Adds regression tests through the real
deliver() path plus helper/classifier units.
* fix(gateway): skip confirmed-dead delivery targets (deleted groups, blocked bots)
A deleted Telegram group, kicked/blocked bot, or deactivated user keeps
throwing Forbidden/not_found on every cron tick and fan-out delivery. Each
retry burns a send against the platform's flood-control envelope and spams
the logs, making the whole session feel broken even when the model call
completed.
Add a small persistent DeadTargetRegistry (per-profile JSON under
HERMES_HOME) that records a target the moment a send reports a whole-chat
death (forbidden / chat-level not_found), and have DeliveryRouter.deliver()
short-circuit it on subsequent attempts. Self-healing: any successful send
clears the flag, so a user re-adding the bot recovers with no manual cleanup.
Thread/topic-level not_found is NOT recorded (adapters already self-heal that
by retrying without reply_to). Transient/timeout errors are never marked dead.
* infographic: dead delivery target skipping
