hermes-agent/tools/environments
Ben ac8e238bc8 fix(docker): reuse containers across processes + fix cleanup leaks
The Docker backend docs claim "Single persistent container — ONE long-
lived container shared across sessions, /new, /reset, and delegate_task
subagents. Stopped/removed on shutdown." In practice the code only
honored that contract within a single Python process via the in-memory
\`_active_environments[task_id]\` cache. Every \`hermes chat\` invocation
spawned a fresh \`hermes-<hex>\` container; older containers piled up in
\`Exited\` state and accumulated until manual \`docker rm\` (issue #20561).

Three root causes, all addressed by this commit:

1. No cross-process container discovery.
2. \`cleanup()\` used fire-and-forget \`subprocess.Popen("... &", shell=True)\`
   which raced with parent-process exit — when Python exited promptly the
   detached shell child got killed mid-\`docker stop\`, leaving stopped
   containers behind.
3. The \`docker rm\` step in cleanup was gated on \`not self._persistent\`
   (the bind-mount-persistence flag). Default config sets
   \`container_persistent: true\`, so the default happy path skipped \`rm\`
   entirely — even when the user explicitly didn't want cross-process
   reuse, containers leaked.

Fix:

* Add \`DockerEnvironment.__init__(persist_across_processes=True)\`. When
  true, init probes
  \`docker ps -a --filter label=hermes-agent=1
                  --filter label=hermes-task-id=<task>
                  --filter label=hermes-profile=<profile>\`
  and reuses a matching container (running → attach; stopped →
  \`docker start\` → attach; \`docker start\` failure → fall through to a
  fresh \`docker run\`). Multiple matches prefer the running one, with the
  stragglers left for the orphan reaper (next commit) to clean up.

* Rewrite \`cleanup()\`. Uses \`subprocess.run(..., timeout=30)\` on a
  daemon \`threading.Thread\`, not the racy \`Popen(... &)\`. The
  \`_persistent\` guard is dropped on the \`rm\` step — \`rm\` now runs
  whenever \`persist_across_processes\` is false, regardless of the
  bind-mount-persistence setting. The leak class is gone in all
  combinations.

* Add \`wait_for_cleanup(timeout)\`. \`tools/terminal_tool.py\`'s atexit
  hook calls this on every active env, blocking up to 15s for the
  cleanup thread before interpreter exit. Without this, \`hermes /quit\`
  raced the daemon-thread teardown and dropped the stop/rm work.

* New config \`terminal.docker_persist_across_processes\` (default
  \`true\` — restores the documented contract). Set \`false\` for hard
  per-process isolation. Wired through all four config-bridge sites
  (cli.py env_mappings, gateway/run.py _terminal_env_map,
  hermes_cli/config.py _config_to_env_sync, tests/conftest.py env-strip
  list); regression-pinned by
  \`test_docker_persist_across_processes_is_bridged_everywhere\` matching
  the existing pattern for docker_run_as_host_user / docker_env.

Reuse intentionally does NOT compare image / mounts / resources — only
the labels. Operators changing those settings should set
\`docker_persist_across_processes: false\` (or \`docker rm -f\` the
labeled container) to force a fresh start. This keeps the probe cheap
and the failure mode obvious.

Coverage: 12 new unit tests in tests/tools/test_docker_environment.py
covering reuse paths (running, stopped, fallback, opt-out, duplicate
preference) and cleanup behavior (persist-mode no-rm, opt-out always-rm,
no-Popen, wait_for_cleanup semantics, partial-init safety). Plus one
config-bridge regression pin.

Refs #20561
2026-05-29 11:49:54 +10:00
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__init__.py remove Vercel AI Gateway and Vercel Sandbox (#33067) 2026-05-27 00:43:32 -07:00
base.py perf(terminal): adaptive subprocess poll cuts ~195ms off every tool call (#29006) 2026-05-19 20:02:52 -07:00
daytona.py fix(daytona): migrate legacy-sandbox lookup to cursor-based list() (#24587) 2026-05-12 16:31:46 -07:00
docker.py fix(docker): reuse containers across processes + fix cleanup leaks 2026-05-29 11:49:54 +10:00
file_sync.py fix: guard yaml.safe_load, flock unlock, TOCTOU races, and atomic writes 2026-05-19 00:12:41 -07:00
local.py remove Vercel AI Gateway and Vercel Sandbox (#33067) 2026-05-27 00:43:32 -07:00
managed_modal.py feat(environments): unified spawn-per-call execution layer 2026-04-08 17:23:15 -07:00
modal.py fix(async): close unscheduled coroutines in all threadsafe bridges (#26584) 2026-05-15 14:00:01 -07:00
modal_utils.py fix: follow-up for salvaged PR #10854 2026-04-16 06:42:45 -07:00
singularity.py feat(environments): unified spawn-per-call execution layer 2026-04-08 17:23:15 -07:00
ssh.py fix(ssh): keep bulk sync extraction scoped to .hermes 2026-05-21 19:17:51 -07:00