hermes-agent/plugins/platforms/photon/sidecar
Teknium dcace573da fix(photon): rework zombie-stream watchdog for spectrum-ts 8 with strict probe semantics
Maintainer rework of #45580 (issue #54036) on top of the contributor's
cherry-pick, which targeted spectrum-ts 3.1.0 while main pins 8.0.0:

Sidecar (primary detection, new):
- stream-staleness.mjs: pure decision rules, executable under node.
  * classifyProbeRejection: only a not-found-shaped rejection of the
    synthetic-id read counts as a completed round-trip (ALIVE); any other
    rejection is INCONCLUSIVE — never alive. The original /probe treated
    ANY rejection as alive, which was too loose.
  * shouldProbe: probe only after 10+ min of stream silence (configurable
    via PHOTON_STREAM_SILENCE_PROBE_MS; <=0 disables) with a cooldown.
  * isZombieSuspect: zombie only on silence past threshold AND a
    probe-proven live channel. Silence alone NEVER degrades (shared lines
    can be quiet for hours); inconclusive probes NEVER degrade (network
    may be down — the iterator will throw and the re-subscribe loop
    recovers on its own).
- index.mjs: track last inbound-iterator yield (noteInboundYield), run a
  30s watchdog tick, and on a confirmed zombie feed markStreamDegraded ->
  the existing exit-75 restart path. /healthz gains a stream.staleness
  block (silentForMs, threshold, lastProbeOutcome, zombieSuspected).
  /probe reworked to strict semantics: 200 only on a proven round-trip,
  503 with outcome hung|inconclusive otherwise.

Adapter (second layer, reworked):
- _probe_once returns tri-state alive|hung|inconclusive; only a hung
  sidecar HTTP call counts toward the respawn counter — inconclusive
  resets nothing and triggers nothing.
- default probe_interval_seconds 60 -> 600 (conservative; avoid restart
  storms on quiet lines).
- _monitor_sidecar_health surfaces zombieSuspected from /healthz as a
  warning; the fatal UPSTREAM_STREAM_DEGRADED path is unchanged and fires
  when the sidecar escalates.

Tests: test_zombie_stream_watchdog.py executes the real node decision
module and drives the adapter against mocked /healthz responses;
test_presence_watchdog.py updated for the tri-state probe.

Also adds contributor mappings for nickkarhan (#53283) and vaibhavjnf
(#45580).
2026-07-28 22:22:42 -07:00
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.gitignore fix(photon): surface npm install failures in check_requirements() diagnostic chain 2026-07-28 18:20:06 -07:00
index.mjs fix(photon): rework zombie-stream watchdog for spectrum-ts 8 with strict probe semantics 2026-07-28 22:22:42 -07:00
package-lock.json fix(photon): upgrade spectrum-ts sidecar to v8.0.0 2026-06-27 00:51:34 -07:00
package.json fix(photon): upgrade spectrum-ts sidecar to v8.0.0 2026-06-27 00:51:34 -07:00
patch-spectrum-mixed-attachments.mjs feat(photon): upgrade spectrum-ts sidecar to v7.0.0 2026-06-27 00:51:34 -07:00
README.md feat(photon): support rich link previews 2026-07-28 22:10:57 -07:00
send-format.mjs test(photon): replace source-grep URL-routing tests with behavior tests 2026-07-28 22:22:42 -07:00
stream-staleness.mjs fix(photon): rework zombie-stream watchdog for spectrum-ts 8 with strict probe semantics 2026-07-28 22:22:42 -07:00

Photon sidecar

Small Node helper that bridges Hermes Agent to Photon's Spectrum SDK (spectrum-ts). Hermes is Python; Photon has no public HTTP send-message endpoint today; replies therefore go through this sidecar.

The sidecar:

  • runs Spectrum({ projectId, projectSecret, providers: [imessage.config()] })
  • exposes a loopback-only HTTP control channel for the Python adapter to push send/typing requests (auth via X-Hermes-Sidecar-Token)
  • drains the inbound message stream so spectrum-ts keeps its reconnect/heartbeat machinery alive and Hermes can receive inbound messages over the adapter's loopback GET /inbound stream

Install

cd plugins/platforms/photon/sidecar
npm install

The Hermes plugin's hermes photon setup command runs npm install here automatically.

Run standalone

For debugging:

PHOTON_PROJECT_ID=... PHOTON_PROJECT_SECRET=... \
PHOTON_SIDECAR_PORT=8789 PHOTON_SIDECAR_TOKEN=$(openssl rand -hex 16) \
node index.mjs

In normal use, the Python adapter supervises this process — start, restart on crash, kill on shutdown — and never asks the user to run it by hand.

Why a sidecar at all?

Photon's Spectrum send path is exposed through the TypeScript SDK's Space.send(...) API. Hermes is Python, so replies go through this sidecar until Photon ships a public HTTP send endpoint.

When Photon ships an HTTP send endpoint, the plan is to retire this sidecar entirely and call it directly from Python. The plugin's outbound code path is already isolated behind small helpers (_sidecar_send, _sidecar_send_richlink, and _sidecar_send_attachment in adapter.py) to make that swap localized.