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Ben Barclay c276b017ad
feat(relay): connector⇄gateway channel auth + signed-HTTP inbound receiver + enroll CLI (#48147)
* feat(relay): authenticate the connector⇄gateway WS channel

The relay gateway may be customer-managed and internet-exposed, so the
connector⇄gateway channel is itself authenticated (distinct from the
platform crypto the relay path sheds). Add gateway/relay/auth.py — a
Python port of the connector's HMAC token + delivery-signature schemes
(relayAuthToken.ts / deliverySigning.ts), verified byte-for-byte against
the connector's compiled TypeScript via cross-language test vectors.

Present an Authorization bearer on the /relay WS upgrade keyed by the
per-gateway secret (resolved from GATEWAY_RELAY_ID / GATEWAY_RELAY_SECRET
in env or config). The connector rejects an unauthenticated/invalid/
revoked upgrade with close 4401.

* feat(relay): signed-HTTP inbound delivery receiver

The connector delivers normalized inbound events to a tenant's gateway
over a signed HTTP POST, not the outbound /relay WS: the connector
instance owning a platform socket is generally not the instance a given
gateway dialed out to, so inbound targets a tenant endpoint that may
load-balance across gateway instances.

Add gateway/relay/inbound_receiver.py — verifies x-relay-signature /
x-relay-timestamp over the EXACT raw request bytes (re-serializing would
break the HMAC: JS JSON.stringify is compact, Python json.dumps spaces)
against the per-tenant delivery key verify list within a 300s replay
window, then dispatches messages to handle_message and interrupts to the
interrupt handler. Wire it into the adapter lifecycle (start in connect()
when a delivery key + bind port are configured, tear down in disconnect();
a purely-outbound dev gateway runs without it).

Refine test_relay_sheds_crypto to distinguish PLATFORM crypto (Discord
ed25519, Twilio/WeCom HMAC — still shed) from the connector⇄gateway
CHANNEL auth (intended): auth.py / inbound_receiver.py are exempt from
the platform-symbol scan but still banned from importing platform-crypto
modules, plus a positive guard that auth.py uses only stdlib hmac/hashlib.

* feat(relay): hermes gateway enroll CLI

Add the gateway half of zero-touch enrollment. `hermes gateway enroll`
resolves a fresh Nous Portal access token (the tenant-proving identity),
POSTs {enrollmentToken, gatewayId} to the connector's /relay/enroll, and
persists GATEWAY_RELAY_ID / GATEWAY_RELAY_SECRET / GATEWAY_RELAY_DELIVERY_KEY
to ~/.hermes/.env. The per-gateway secret authenticates the WS upgrade;
the per-tenant delivery key verifies signed inbound deliveries.

Refuses under is_managed() (hosted installs get the secret stamped in by
the orchestrator). Added as an 'enroll' subcommand on the existing
gateway subparser — not a new top-level command.

* docs(relay): inbound is signed HTTP, not WS; document channel auth

Fix the stale contract: §3/§5 said inbound rode the WS socket (single-
instance only, predates the multi-instance socket-ownership + channel-auth
model). Inbound + connector→gateway interrupt are signed HTTP POSTs to the
tenant endpoint. Add §6.1 documenting the two channel-auth schemes (per-
gateway WS-upgrade secret, per-tenant inbound delivery key) and how they
differ from the platform crypto the relay path sheds.

* test(relay): update build_gateway_parser callers for cmd_gateway_enroll

The enroll subcommand added cmd_gateway_enroll as a required keyword-only
arg to build_gateway_parser, but two existing parser-extraction tests still
called it with only cmd_gateway/cmd_proxy — failing CI with TypeError.
Thread the new handler through both call sites and add a test asserting
`gateway enroll` dispatches to cmd_gateway_enroll with its flags parsed.
2026-06-18 12:01:54 +10:00
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assets fix(dashboard): recover the Chat tab when the agent session ends (NS-504) (#47674) 2026-06-18 10:05:26 +10:00
design docs(profile): update clone-from references 2026-06-13 07:33:58 -07:00
kanban feat(kanban): gate notifier watcher on dispatch_in_gateway 2026-06-01 20:30:24 -07:00
middleware fix(middleware): preserve translated downstream failures 2026-06-06 09:26:18 -07:00
observability feat(observability): observer-grade telemetry hooks + NeMo-Relay plugin 2026-06-03 06:36:46 -07:00
plans fix(gateway): recover partial Telegram overflow streams 2026-06-10 15:09:35 -07:00
security docs(security): add network egress isolation guide for Docker deployments (#26385) 2026-05-29 14:09:10 +10:00
hermes-kanban-v1-spec.pdf feat(kanban): durable multi-profile collaboration board (#17805) 2026-04-30 13:36:47 -07:00
rca-ssl-cacert-post-git-pull.md fix(ssl): align guard docs and escape hatch 2026-06-13 21:14:32 -07:00
relay-connector-contract.md feat(relay): connector⇄gateway channel auth + signed-HTTP inbound receiver + enroll CLI (#48147) 2026-06-18 12:01:54 +10:00