The first LLM call of every gateway turn gets ~0% provider prompt-cache
hit rate (in-turn calls: 97-99%) because the bytes sent for a turn's
user message are not the bytes replayed next turn: memory-prefetch and
pre_llm_call context are injected into the API copy only, the #48677
persist override writes cleaned content to the DB row, and
get_messages_as_conversation sanitize/strips user and assistant content
on load. Any of these diverges the request prefix at that message and
re-prefills everything after it — measured 27.9s for the first call vs
2.4-5.8s cached at a median ~156k-token context.
Persist what you send: a nullable messages.api_content column stores the
exact content string sent to the API when it differs from the clean
stored content, and replay substitutes it verbatim (no sanitize, no
strip). The injection composition lives in one helper
(turn_context.compose_user_api_content); the turn prologue stamps its
output onto the live user message, the api_messages build sends the
stamped bytes, and every outgoing copy pops the field so it never
reaches a provider. The crash-resilience user-turn persist moves after
prefetch/pre_llm_call so the user row is written once with its final
sidecar; _ensure_db_session stays before preflight compression (session
rotation needs the parent row under PRAGMA foreign_keys=ON). The
current-turn index trackers are re-anchored after compaction rebuilds
the message list, in-place preflight compaction backfills the stamp onto
the already-inserted row, and gateway replay forwards the sidecar only
when the replay pipeline did not rewrite the content. Rewrite paths that
would leave stale bytes (historical image strip, merge-summary-into-
tail, consecutive-user repair merge, stale-confirmation redaction) drop
the sidecar; the chat-completions transport and the max-iterations
summary path strip it defensively. codex_app_server and MoA turns are
excluded from stamping because their wire bytes differ from the
composition. A missing or dropped sidecar degrades to today's behavior
(one cache-boundary miss), never to wrong content.
Follow-up to PR #66479 salvage. The three new env vars
(HERMES_LOCAL_STREAM_STALE_TIMEOUT, HERMES_GATEWAY_MAX_STARTS,
HERMES_GATEWAY_START_WINDOW_S) were introduced as bare env-var reads with no
config.yaml surface or documentation — violating the .env-is-for-secrets-only
policy (behavioral settings must live in config.yaml, bridged to env internally).
- config.yaml: add gateway.respawn_storm {max_starts, window_seconds} to
DEFAULT_CONFIG, mirroring the existing restart_loop_guard pattern.
- gateway.py: read config.yaml first, env vars override as escape-hatch.
- environment-variables.md: document all three new env vars, noting the
config.yaml alternative for the gateway ones.
- chat_completion_helpers.py: cross-reference the env-var docs from the
local stale timeout comment.
* feat(attribution): conflict-free contributor mappings via contributors/emails/ directory
The AUTHOR_MAP dict in scripts/release.py was a merge-conflict magnet:
every concurrent salvage PR appended entries to the same lines of the
same file, so parallel PRs re-conflicted on every merge to main.
New system: one file per email under contributors/emails/ — filename is
the commit-author email, first non-comment line is the GitHub login.
File additions never conflict, so any number of PRs can add mappings
concurrently.
- scripts/release.py: AUTHOR_MAP is now LEGACY_AUTHOR_MAP (frozen)
merged with the directory at import time (directory wins). All
existing consumers (resolve_author, contributor_audit.py) unchanged.
- scripts/add_contributor.py: idempotent CLI to add a mapping; refuses
conflicting reassignments (incl. against the legacy map), validates
email/login shapes.
- contributor-check.yml: attribution gate now accepts a mapping file OR
a legacy entry; failure message prints the exact add_contributor
command. Also auto-resolves bare <login>@users.noreply.github.com
emails is intentionally NOT added (kept id+login form only, matching
previous behavior).
- contributor_audit.py: guidance now points at add_contributor.py.
- tests/scripts/test_contributor_map.py: 12 tests covering loader,
merge precedence, CLI idempotency/conflict/validation, subprocess E2E.
* feat(ci): one-shot per-file flake retry in the parallel test runner
A failing test FILE is re-run once in a fresh subprocess. Pass-on-retry
counts as green but is loudly reported in a '⚠ FLAKY' summary section
(with both attempts' output preserved) so the flake gets fixed instead
of eating a full-run rerun. Deterministic failures fail both attempts —
regressions cannot be laundered green.
- --file-retries N / HERMES_TEST_FILE_RETRIES (default 1, 0 disables)
- E2E verified: simulated first-run-fail flake goes green with banner;
deterministic failure still exits 1; retries=0 restores old behavior.
This converts the dominant CI failure mode (one timing-sensitive test
flaking a 4600-test shard, requiring a manual 10-minute rerun and an
agent triage loop) into a self-healing retry that costs one file's
runtime.
* test(approval): loosen wall-clock perf bounds 0.15s -> 2.0s
These guard against catastrophic regex backtracking (seconds-to-minutes
class), but 0.15s is within scheduler-stall noise on loaded shared CI
runners — test_max_accepted_separator_free_input_is_fast failed a CI
shard this week on runner load alone. 2.0s still catches the regression
class with zero flake surface.
* fix(ci): job timeouts everywhere + retries on all network installs
Reliability pass over every workflow:
- timeout-minutes on all 21 jobs that lacked one (a hung job previously
burned the 6-hour default runner budget)
- ./.github/actions/retry wrapped around every network-fetching install
that lacked it: pip installs (deploy-site, skills-index), npm ci
(deploy-site website, upload_to_pypi web + ui-tui), uv sync (docker
test deps). Deterministic build steps (npm run build) deliberately
NOT retried — split into separate steps so a real build failure fails
fast instead of retrying 3x.
* docs(agents): document the file-retry flake policy
* fix(ci): curl retries on deploy hook + skills-index probe
* fix(ci): kill the remaining transient-failure classes in workflows + Dockerfile
From the workflow reliability audit:
- tests.yml: duration-cache restore had NO restore-keys while saves use
run_id-suffixed keys — the cache never matched once, so LPT slicing
always ran blind and unbalanced slices pushed heavy files toward the
per-file timeout. One-line restore-keys fixes slice balancing.
- Label gates (lint ci-reviewed, supply-chain mcp-catalog-reviewed):
'gh pr view || true' turned an API blip into 'label absent' → false
BLOCKING failure. Now 3x retry, and API failure is reported as an API
failure instead of a missing label.
- detect-changes action: compare API retried before failing open (was
silently running all lanes on any blip).
- uv-lockfile-check: 'uv lock --check' resolves against PyPI — retried
so registry blips don't read as 'lockfile stale'.
- docker.yml merge job: imagetools create retried (Docker Hub eventual
consistency on just-pushed digests).
- Dockerfile: apt-get Acquire::Retries=3; s6-overlay ADDs converted to
curl --retry 3 (ADD cannot retry; checksums still enforced); npm
--fetch-retries=5; playwright chromium fetch retried 3x.
- Advisory artifact uploads (per-slice durations, ci-timings report)
get continue-on-error so an artifact-service blip can't fail a green
test slice.
* fix(tests): kill the two root-cause flakes — leaking pre-warm timer + env-dependent provider list
- test_tui_gateway_server.py: session.create / non-eager session.resume
arm a 50ms threading.Timer (_schedule_agent_build) that outlives its
test and fires into the NEXT test's _make_agent mock, racily
corrupting captured state (the recurring session_resume shard
failures). Replaced the per-test whack-a-mole stub with a module-wide
autouse fixture; the 3 worker-lifecycle tests that genuinely need the
deferred build opt back in via @pytest.mark.real_agent_prewarm (new
marker in pyproject).
- test_api_key_providers.py: PROVIDER_ENV_VARS is now derived from the
live PROVIDER_REGISTRY instead of a hand-list that had drifted
(missing HF_TOKEN / DEEPINFRA_API_KEY) — resolve_provider('auto')
tests failed on any machine with HF_TOKEN exported. E2E-verified with
HF_TOKEN/DEEPINFRA_API_KEY set: 42/42 pass.
* test: de-flake 30 timing-sensitive test files for loaded CI runners
Root-cause fixes from the flake audit (session-DB mining + repo sweep):
Event-based sync instead of sleep-sync:
- title_generator: mock sets threading.Event, wait(10) replaces
sleep(0.3) hoping the daemon thread got scheduled
- docker zombie_reaping / profile_gateway: poll-for-state helpers
replace fixed 1-3s sleeps (s6 transitions + SIGCHLD reaping are async)
- process_registry tree test: select()-bounded readline replaces an
unbounded blocking read (parent wedge now fails THIS test with a clear
message instead of an opaque rc=124 file kill); SIGTERM grace 1s->2s
(the 1s partition window mid-interpreter-startup is how a child PID
escaped the live-system guard in CI)
Timeout raises (loaded 8-way-sliced runners see ~5s scheduling floors;
all of these complete in ms-to-1s when healthy so the raises cost
nothing on green runs):
- subprocess/thread waits <= 2s raised to 10-15s across mcp_tool,
mcp_circuit_breaker, mcp_reconnect_retry_reset, mcp_parked_self_probe,
mcp_cancelled_error_propagation, registry, clarify_gateway, interrupt,
voice_cli_integration, docker_environment, session_store_lock_io,
planned_stop_watcher, cli_interrupt_subagent, thread_scoped_output
(joins now also assert not is_alive() so stragglers fail loudly)
- wall-clock discrimination ceilings loosened where the guarded hang is
10x larger: local_background_child_hang 4s->10s, interrupt_cleanup
setup 5s->20s + pgid-exit 30s->60s, mcp_stability grandchild spinup
5s->15s, protocol/gil-starvation fast-handler 0.5s->2s,
iso_certify_seam 1.5s->5s, wait_for_mcp_discovery 0.1s->1s
- narrow assertion windows widened: honcho first-turn wait 0.4..0.65 ->
0.25..2.0 (property is bounded-not-hung, not an exact wall-clock);
compression fork-lock TTL 1s->3s (12 refresh chances per lease);
compression-lock expiry margins symmetric (ttl 0.05->0.5, sleep 1.0)
- telegram hung-DNS bound 1.0->1.4 (fake hang is 1.5s — must stay under)
* fix(tests): repair indentation from de-flake batch edit
* fix(tests): harden env isolation and replace remaining sleep-sync races
The full 42k-test run and complete npm check surfaced three more classes:
- Environment isolation: local ~/.honcho defaultHost and SSH_* variables
leaked into Python/TUI tests. Pin the default Honcho host in the
hermetic fixture, isolate the one fallback test from ~/.honcho, and
blank SSH_* around terminalSetup tests. This flipped 20 false failures
back to deterministic behavior on developer machines.
- Background-thread sleep-sync: Honcho async writer tests patched
time.sleep globally, then busy-polled with that same mocked sleep. Under
full-suite load the poller could starve the writer. Each test now waits
on an Event emitted by the exact flush/retry transition; 30/30 passed
under 15-way contention.
- Desktop streaming: the test slept 80ms and assumed a 500ms timer could
not fire before its assertion. A loaded runner descheduled the test for
>500ms and both chunks arrived. Producer controls now gate second-chunk
and completion transitions explicitly.
Also make file-retry observability complete: a self-healed flaky file now
prints BOTH attempts' full output in the FLAKY summary. Two behavioral
runner tests prove pass-on-retry is green+loud+traceback-preserving, while
a deterministic failure remains red.
* refactor(ci): use gh bot pat, better retries
refactor(ci): use retry action for PR label fetch
the retry action now captures stdout as a step output, so it can serve
double duty: retry + output capture for commands like 'gh pr view' whose
result must be consumed by later steps.
Retry action gains:
- 'stdout' output (heredoc-delimited to preserve newlines)
- tee to temp file so stdout still streams to the job log
- step id 'retry' for output reference
Both lint.yml and supply-chain-audit.yml now use the retry action
directly with 'command: gh pr view ...' and read
steps.<id>.outputs.stdout.
ci: use AUTOFIX_BOT_PAT for all gh CLI / GitHub API auth
Replace secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN and github.token with
secrets.AUTOFIX_BOT_PAT across all workflows and composite actions
that use the gh CLI or GitHub API. The PAT has consistent permissions
across fork PRs (where GITHUB_TOKEN is read-only), avoids API rate
limit sharing with the default token, and is already used by
js-autofix.yml for the same reasons.
19 sites swapped across 9 files:
- lint.yml (3): label fetch, comment post/edit, comment update
- supply-chain-audit.yml (5): scan, critical comment, unbounded dep
comment, label fetch, mcp-catalog comment
- lockfile-diff.yml (1): PR comment post/update
- skills-index-freshness.yml (1): issue creation on degraded probe
- skills-index.yml (2): index build, trigger deploy workflow
- upload_to_pypi.yml (2): release view poll, release upload
- ci.yml (1): timings report
- deploy-site.yml (2): skills index crawl
- detect-changes/action.yml (1): compare API call
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Co-authored-by: ethernet <arilotter@gmail.com>
Fold #62349's broader provider-boundary handling into the header fix: bound top-level and xAI override keys again at preflight after middleware, preserve unrelated headers, and cover boundaries and collisions.
Co-authored-by: Nick Taylor <nicktaylor@TheWorldofNick-Lappy.local>
- codex-app-server-runtime.md: add a Live display section covering the
stream/reasoning/tool-card bridge and show_commentary gating.
- release.py: AUTHOR_MAP entries for HaiderSultanArc, jjadeo-oss, juanfradb
(the latter two for forthcoming follow-up salvages of #62396 / #18050).
Unifies the two gateway subsystems that were fighting each other: the
'never lose a session' recovery machinery (#54878 stale-route self-heal,
find_latest_gateway_session_for_peer reopening agent_close/ws_orphan_reap
rows) and the session reset/expiry machinery (expiry watcher, /new,
/resume, resume_pending freshness gate).
The unified contract:
- INTENTIONAL boundaries (expiry finalization, auto-reset, /new,
/resume switch) are recorded durably via promote_to_session_reset(),
which upgrades accidental recoverable end_reasons (agent_close,
ws_orphan_reap) to the explicit boundary while preserving other
explicit reasons (compression, etc.). Recovery then correctly refuses
to resurrect them.
- ACCIDENTAL ends (crash, cleanup bug, mistaken reaper) stay
recoverable — genuine crash recovery is untouched.
On top of the cherry-picked contributor commits:
- promote_to_session_reset widened to ws_orphan_reap + parameterized
reason so auto-reset paths stay auditable (idle/daily/suspended/
resume_pending_expired) (#61220, #61993, #63539)
- get_or_create_session auto-reset, reset_session (/new), and
switch_session (/resume) all write through the promote path — the
first-reason-wins end_session no-op could previously leave a reset
session resurrectable behind a stale agent_close row (#61993)
- resume_pending freshness gate now honors session_reset.mode=none:
explicit opt-out of automatic resets also opts out of the zombie
gate (#61052)
- resume recovery note extracted to build_resume_recovery_note() and
made adapter-aware via a new interactive_resume capability flag:
webhook/api_server auto-resume turns now CONTINUE the interrupted
task instead of emitting an unanswerable 'session restored'
acknowledgement that abandoned the work (#57056)
- tests updated to call the real note builder instead of mirroring it
E2E-validated against a real SessionDB + SessionStore in a temp
HERMES_HOME: expiry->agent_close->no-resurrection, /new promote,
crash recovery preserved, mode=none opt-out, routing-table flag sync.
Only advertise finite watchdog deadlines that are still in the future, exercise the full MoA heartbeat path, and register the salvaged contributor attribution.
Commentary delivery is on by default; users who find the extra mid-turn
narration noisy can set display.show_commentary: false to restore the
previous behavior (commentary routed to the reasoning channel, visible
only with show_reasoning).
- hermes_cli/config.py: display.show_commentary default true
- agent/agent_init.py: wire config -> agent.show_commentary
- run_agent.py: gate structured commentary extraction on the flag
- agent/codex_runtime.py: gate live-stream commentary callback (falls
back to legacy reasoning-channel routing when off)
- docs + 2 tests (interim path off, live stream fallback)
Also adds AUTHOR_MAP entries for davidrobertson and 100yenadmin.
Add a runtime_validator callback to generate_title() / auto_title_session()
/ maybe_auto_title(). Callers snapshot the session's model+provider when
spawning the background titler; the validator runs right before the LLM
request and skips it silently when the live runtime no longer matches —
so a stale title request can't reload a model that strict_single_load
already evicted after a user model switch. Fail-open: a raising validator
never disables titling.
Wired at all four call sites (cli, gateway, tui_gateway, acp_adapter).
Surgical reapply of PR #19137 (base was 8k+ commits stale; the original
patch predates the pinned-language prompts, the atomic-write helper, and
the moved TUI/ACP call sites). Original work by @Thatgfsj. Closes#19027.
Combines the two salvaged fixes so they compose instead of conflict:
_persist_session_title (#50575) now writes through set_auto_title_if_empty
(#51483) when the store provides it — the collision-dedup retry and the
manual-/title race protection apply together. Predicate failure (a manual
title landed while generation was in flight) returns None: nothing written,
no callback. Legacy stores without the atomic method keep the plain
set_session_title path, including the vanished-session RuntimeError.
Tests cover both store shapes plus the race-skip path; E2E verified against
a real SQLite SessionDB (collision -> 'Weekly Report #2', manual title
preserved, cron dedup, blank guard). AUTHOR_MAP entry for rasitakyol.
Follow-ups for the consolidated salvage:
- Memoize the config.yaml-derived timeout on the file's mtime_ns so the
rebuild-on-timeout-change check from PR #57437 costs one stat() per
get_honcho_client() call instead of a full YAML load on the hot path.
- hermes honcho status now displays the host-block-resolved
dialecticCadence (remnant from PR #63776, whose runtime fix landed
in #62290).
- AUTHOR_MAP entries for the salvaged contributor emails.
- Make the config imports lazy inside _auto_title_enabled(), matching the
existing _title_language() pattern (title_generator is imported from agent
code paths where a module-level hermes_cli import risks circularity).
- Check the enabled flag after the cheap first-exchange guard in
maybe_auto_title so config isn't read on every turn of a long session.
- Repoint the two new tests at the real import site.
- Document the key in cli-config.yaml.example and merge the enabled flag
into the existing title_generation block in configuration.md.
- AUTHOR_MAP entry for the contributor.
* fix: detect env-var-configured providers absent from PROVIDER_REGISTRY
is_provider_explicitly_configured() only checked PROVIDER_REGISTRY (a
manually-maintained dict) for env-var names. Providers that exist solely
in the models.dev catalog — e.g. openrouter — were never recognised as
explicitly configured, so they were filtered out of the desktop model
picker even when their API key was set in .env.
Add a fallback to get_provider() (which reads the models.dev catalog)
when PROVIDER_REGISTRY returns None. Both ProviderConfig and ProviderDef
expose .auth_type and .api_key_env_vars with the same shape.
* test: keep OpenRouter provider gate assertion behavioral
* chore(release): map salvaged OpenRouter contributor
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Co-authored-by: zzpigpinggai <zzpigpinggai@users.noreply.github.com>
The salvaged choices list predates the max/ultra effort levels (#62650);
add them so the Discord dropdown matches the canonical ladder. Discord
caps choices at 25 — we're at 11, plenty of headroom.
_clean_reasoning_effort kept its own whitelist that stopped at 'max',
silently dropping 'ultra' from MoA slot configs. Route it through
hermes_constants.parse_reasoning_effort — the same one-source-of-truth
fix the salvaged commit applies to the gateway — so future effort
levels can't drift here either. Docs updated to list ultra.
Follow-up to salvaged PR #64012.
Follow-ups on top of the cherry-picked cluster commits:
- slack: scope-authoritative app-token read — get_secret() with a
narrow UnscopedSecretError fallback to os.getenv. Keeps @kohoj's
correct semantics (scoped profile can never silently inherit the
default profile's Socket Mode app) while fixing the regression where
the default-profile startup loop and background reconnect rebuild,
which call connect() unscoped under multiplex, would raise and
fail-loop. Supersedes the 'or os.getenv' variant from #64461 which
reintroduced the cross-profile fallback leak.
- test: unscoped-multiplex fallback regression test for connect().
- run.py: convert the last legacy self.adapters.get(source.platform)
site (_rename_discord_auto_thread) to _adapter_for_source(source)
so profile-routed Discord sources rename threads on the right
adapter (from #57417's sweep).
- AUTHOR_MAP entry for @aguung.
Follow-up on the salvaged #64611 commit: the original guard blocked the
install tree unconditionally, which would have broken the legitimate
'developing Hermes from a source clone' CLI flow (launching hermes inside
the repo and getting its AGENTS.md as project context).
Refined policy:
- resolve_context_cwd(): validates configured paths (missing dir -> None +
warning) but honors an EXPLICIT install-tree cwd verbatim — deliberate
user choice.
- build_context_files_prompt(): blocks only the cwd=None -> os.getcwd()
FALLBACK into the install tree, with a new allow_install_tree_fallback
param. system_prompt.py passes it for platform cli/tui (launch dir is
the user's real shell cwd there); desktop/gateway surfaces keep the
guard (their fallback dir is self-spawned, never user-picked).
- Warning log names the resolved dir and the terminal.cwd remedy.
E2E-verified all five scenarios: desktop fallback blocked, in-tree CLI dev
keeps AGENTS.md, explicit install-tree cwd honored, invalid TERMINAL_CWD
falls to None then blocked, normal workspace loads.
Follow-ups to @SAMBAS123's #64986 salvage:
- Replace the hardcoded token-platform set in _platform_has_bot_credential
with PLATFORM_TOKEN_ENV_NAMES, a shared canonical map in gateway/config.py
also used by the empty-token validation warning — one source of truth, so
future token platforms can't silently bypass the gate or drift between
the two sites.
- After secondary-profile startup, warn loudly for any platform skipped on
the primary that no secondary profile ended up serving: an enabled
platform with no credential anywhere is a config error, not a silent
no-op.
- AUTHOR_MAP entry for the salvaged commit's author email.
