hermes-agent/tests/hermes_cli/test_npm_engine.py
ethernet e803c5aeac fix(npm): self-upgrade a managed npm when engines.npm rejects it
The repo's .npmrc sets engine-strict=true and package.json pins
engines.npm, so an npm outside that range aborts every npm ci /
npm install we run inside the checkout:

    npm error code EBADENGINE
    npm error notsup Required: {"npm":"<11.10.0 || >=12.0.0"}
    npm error notsup Actual:   {"npm":"11.10.0"}

Our callers made that worse: _run_npm_install_deterministic sees
`npm ci` fail and falls through to `npm install`, which fails
identically, so the user got a buried EBADENGINE and no remedy.

React to the failure instead of predicting it. npm states the
required range in its own error, so there is no need for a version
probe on the happy path or a semver range matcher — the recovery
reads the constraint out of the output it just produced, upgrades,
and retries once.

Scope is deliberately narrow. Hermes only upgrades an npm inside its
own managed Node tree ($HERMES_HOME/node), installing with --prefix
so bin/npm keeps resolving to the upgraded lib/node_modules/npm; a
managed install writes prefix=~/.local into node/etc/npmrc, so
without the override the "upgrade" would land elsewhere while the
managed npm stayed stale. A system / nvm / brew / Nix npm belongs to
the user, so that case prints the exact command and lets the original
failure stand.

The upgrade runs from a temp cwd with npm_config_min_release_age=0,
otherwise the checkout's own min-release-age gate would refuse the
npm release we need.

_run_npm_install_deterministic's capture_output=False callers (the
desktop install) streamed npm output and returned stderr=None, which
would leave the recovery nothing to read — stderr is now teed, so
live output is unchanged and the text stays inspectable.

Verified end to end against real npm binaries on copies of a managed
tree: managed npm 11.10.0 -> EBADENGINE -> upgraded to 12.0.2 ->
retry exits 0; a foreign npm 11.10.0 hard-fails with the manual
command and is left untouched.
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"""Tests for npm ``EBADENGINE`` recovery (``hermes_cli/npm_engine.py``).
The behaviour under test is a contract about *reacting* to npm's own engine
check: npm states the range it wants in the failure, Hermes upgrades only an
npm it owns, and every other case leaves the original failure alone.
"""
import json
import subprocess
from pathlib import Path
import pytest
from hermes_cli.npm_engine import (
actual_npm_version,
is_ebadengine,
managed_npm_prefix,
maybe_repair_npm_engine,
required_npm_range,
)
# Verbatim npm 10 output shape (`npm error`), and the npm 9 shape (`npm ERR!`).
EBADENGINE_OUTPUT = """
npm error code EBADENGINE
npm error engine Unsupported engine
npm error engine Not compatible with your version of node/npm: hermes-agent@1.0.0
npm error notsup Not compatible with your version of node/npm: hermes-agent@1.0.0
npm error notsup Required: {"node":">=20.0.0","npm":"<11.10.0 || >=12.0.0"}
npm error notsup Actual: {"npm":"11.10.0","node":"v22.23.1"}
"""
LEGACY_EBADENGINE_OUTPUT = """
npm ERR! code EBADENGINE
npm ERR! engine Unsupported engine
npm ERR! notsup Required: {"node":">=20.0.0","npm":">=12.0.0"}
npm ERR! notsup Actual: {"npm":"9.6.7","node":"v20.1.0"}
"""
# A lockfile mismatch — the other common `npm ci` failure. Must NOT be treated
# as an engine problem, or every out-of-sync lockfile would trigger an upgrade.
ELOCK_OUTPUT = """
npm error code EUSAGE
npm error `npm ci` can only install packages when your package.json and
npm error package-lock.json are in sync.
"""
class TestDetection:
def test_recognises_modern_and_legacy_engine_failures(self):
assert is_ebadengine(EBADENGINE_OUTPUT)
assert is_ebadengine(LEGACY_EBADENGINE_OUTPUT)
def test_unrelated_failures_are_not_engine_failures(self):
assert not is_ebadengine(ELOCK_OUTPUT)
assert not is_ebadengine("")
assert not is_ebadengine("npm error code E404")
def test_range_comes_from_the_error_not_a_hardcoded_list(self):
assert required_npm_range(EBADENGINE_OUTPUT) == "<11.10.0 || >=12.0.0"
assert required_npm_range(LEGACY_EBADENGINE_OUTPUT) == ">=12.0.0"
def test_actual_version_is_reported_back(self):
assert actual_npm_version(EBADENGINE_OUTPUT) == "11.10.0"
def test_no_range_for_non_engine_output(self):
assert required_npm_range(ELOCK_OUTPUT) is None
assert required_npm_range("") is None
def test_node_only_mismatch_yields_no_npm_range(self):
"""Upgrading npm cannot fix a Node version mismatch, so don't try."""
node_only = (
'npm error code EBADENGINE\n'
'npm error notsup Required: {"node":">=20.0.0"}\n'
'npm error notsup Actual: {"npm":"10.9.8","node":"v18.0.0"}\n'
)
assert required_npm_range(node_only) is None
def test_malformed_required_block_is_ignored(self):
broken = (
"npm error code EBADENGINE\n"
"npm error notsup Required: {not json}\n"
)
assert required_npm_range(broken) is None
class TestManagedDetection:
"""The upgrade must fire for every spelling of the managed npm, and for
no other npm — this is the boundary between "Hermes fixes it" and "the
user's own toolchain is left alone"."""
@pytest.fixture
def managed_tree(self, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
home = tmp_path / ".hermes"
node = home / "node"
(node / "bin").mkdir(parents=True)
(node / "lib" / "node_modules" / "npm" / "bin").mkdir(parents=True)
cli = node / "lib" / "node_modules" / "npm" / "bin" / "npm-cli.js"
cli.write_text("#!/usr/bin/env node\n", encoding="utf-8")
(node / "bin" / "npm").symlink_to(cli)
monkeypatch.setenv("HERMES_HOME", str(home))
return home
def test_direct_managed_bin_is_managed(self, managed_tree):
npm = managed_tree / "node" / "bin" / "npm"
assert managed_npm_prefix(npm) == managed_tree / "node"
def test_symlink_from_local_bin_resolves_to_managed(self, managed_tree, tmp_path):
"""An install links ~/.local/bin/npm at the managed tree; that link is
the npm a user's PATH actually resolves, so it must count as managed."""
local_bin = tmp_path / "local-bin"
local_bin.mkdir()
link = local_bin / "npm"
link.symlink_to(managed_tree / "node" / "bin" / "npm")
assert managed_npm_prefix(link) == managed_tree / "node"
def test_system_npm_is_not_managed(self, managed_tree, tmp_path):
system_npm = tmp_path / "usr" / "bin" / "npm"
system_npm.parent.mkdir(parents=True)
system_npm.write_text("#!/bin/sh\n", encoding="utf-8")
assert managed_npm_prefix(system_npm) is None
def test_no_npm_is_not_managed(self, managed_tree):
assert managed_npm_prefix(None) is None
assert managed_npm_prefix("") is None
class TestRepairDecision:
"""`maybe_repair_npm_engine` returns True only when it actually upgraded,
because its return value is what gates the caller's single retry."""
@pytest.fixture
def managed_npm(self, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
home = tmp_path / ".hermes"
bin_dir = home / "node" / "bin"
bin_dir.mkdir(parents=True)
npm = bin_dir / "npm"
npm.write_text("#!/bin/sh\n", encoding="utf-8")
npm.chmod(0o755)
monkeypatch.setenv("HERMES_HOME", str(home))
return npm
def test_upgrades_managed_npm_with_the_range_npm_asked_for(
self, managed_npm, monkeypatch
):
calls = []
def fake_run(cmd, **kwargs):
calls.append((cmd, kwargs))
return subprocess.CompletedProcess(cmd, 0, "", "")
monkeypatch.setattr(subprocess, "run", fake_run)
assert maybe_repair_npm_engine(str(managed_npm), EBADENGINE_OUTPUT, quiet=True)
upgrade_cmd = calls[0][0]
assert upgrade_cmd[1:3] == ["install", "--global"]
# The range must come from npm's error, and target the managed prefix
# explicitly (the managed etc/npmrc points `prefix` elsewhere).
assert "npm@<11.10.0 || >=12.0.0" in upgrade_cmd
prefix_index = upgrade_cmd.index("--prefix")
assert Path(upgrade_cmd[prefix_index + 1]) == managed_npm.parent.parent
def test_upgrade_runs_outside_the_checkout(self, managed_npm, monkeypatch):
"""The repo .npmrc sets min-release-age, which would gate the very npm
release we need; the upgrade must not run under it."""
seen = {}
def fake_run(cmd, **kwargs):
seen.update(kwargs)
return subprocess.CompletedProcess(cmd, 0, "", "")
monkeypatch.setattr(subprocess, "run", fake_run)
maybe_repair_npm_engine(str(managed_npm), EBADENGINE_OUTPUT, quiet=True)
cwd = Path(seen["cwd"])
assert not (cwd / ".npmrc").exists()
assert seen["env"]["npm_config_min_release_age"] == "0"
def test_failed_upgrade_reports_no_retry(self, managed_npm, monkeypatch):
monkeypatch.setattr(
subprocess,
"run",
lambda cmd, **kw: subprocess.CompletedProcess(cmd, 1, "", "boom"),
)
assert not maybe_repair_npm_engine(
str(managed_npm), EBADENGINE_OUTPUT, quiet=True
)
def test_unmanaged_npm_is_never_touched(self, managed_npm, tmp_path, monkeypatch, capsys):
system_npm = tmp_path / "usr-bin-npm"
system_npm.write_text("#!/bin/sh\n", encoding="utf-8")
def explode(cmd, **kwargs): # pragma: no cover - must not be reached
raise AssertionError(f"must not run a subprocess for a foreign npm: {cmd}")
monkeypatch.setattr(subprocess, "run", explode)
assert not maybe_repair_npm_engine(str(system_npm), EBADENGINE_OUTPUT)
# The user gets the exact command to run, since we refuse to run it.
err = capsys.readouterr().err
assert 'npm install -g npm@"<11.10.0 || >=12.0.0"' in err
def test_non_engine_failure_never_upgrades(self, managed_npm, monkeypatch):
def explode(cmd, **kwargs): # pragma: no cover - must not be reached
raise AssertionError("a lockfile mismatch must not trigger an upgrade")
monkeypatch.setattr(subprocess, "run", explode)
assert not maybe_repair_npm_engine(str(managed_npm), ELOCK_OUTPUT, quiet=True)
class TestRepoRangeIsSatisfiable:
"""Invariant: whatever the root package.json demands, the recovery can
parse and act on it — a malformed range would make the repair a no-op."""
def test_root_engines_npm_range_is_a_usable_constraint(self):
repo_root = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2]
package_json = repo_root / "package.json"
engines = json.loads(package_json.read_text(encoding="utf-8")).get("engines", {})
npm_range = engines.get("npm")
if not npm_range:
pytest.skip("root package.json does not pin engines.npm")
synthetic = (
"npm error code EBADENGINE\n"
'npm error notsup Required: '
+ json.dumps({"node": ">=20.0.0", "npm": npm_range})
+ "\n"
)
assert required_npm_range(synthetic) == npm_range