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.
Two fixes for desktop hands-free voice:
- The live speech session bound to the first assistant bubble with text, so
a tool-calling turn spoke only the opening narration and silently dropped
every later interim AND the final answer. The conversation selector now
aggregates all unspoken assistant bubbles in order (turn-scoped speech);
auto-speak keeps its latest-reply-only behavior.
- The speak-stream WS producer blocked forever on the text queue, so a
narration line with no trailing whitespace ("Let me check.") sat in the
sentence chunker until end-of-turn — spoken long after the tool finished,
with the UI stuck on "Preparing audio…". Mirror the CLI speaker's idle
flush: sentence-terminated buffers flush after 0.5s of producer silence,
anything else after ~2s; open <think> blocks are never flushed.
/api/audio/speak-stream WebSocket: one socket + one Web Audio clock per
reply. The renderer feeds raw LLM deltas as they arrive; the server
cuts sentences with the shared chunker and streams int16 PCM back while
generation continues — speech overlaps generation with no per-sentence
connection or synthesis gaps. Falls back to the POST data-URL path for
old backends / non-chunked providers.
Barge-in runs a MediaRecorder on the monitor's stream the whole time
playback is live (rotated while quiet to bound pre-roll); talking over
the agent cuts playback and the complete utterance goes straight to
transcription and submit. /api/audio/transcribe returns 200/"" for
no-speech results so quiet turns re-listen instead of toasting a 400.
