hermes-agent/tests/run_agent/test_empty_response_recovery_persistence.py

"""Regression tests for empty-response recovery transcript persistence."""

from run_agent import AIAgent


class _CapturingSessionDB:
    """Minimal SessionDB stand-in that records every appended message."""

    def __init__(self):
        self.rows = []

    def append_message(self, session_id, role, content=None, **kwargs):
        self.rows.append({"role": role, "content": content})
        return len(self.rows)


def _agent_with_capturing_db():
    agent = AIAgent.__new__(AIAgent)
    agent._persist_user_message_idx = None
    agent._persist_user_message_override = None
    agent._session_db = _CapturingSessionDB()
    agent._session_db_created = True
    agent._last_flushed_db_idx = 0
    agent.session_id = "sess-test"
    return agent


def _agent_with_stubbed_persistence():
    agent = AIAgent.__new__(AIAgent)
    agent._persist_user_message_idx = None
    agent._persist_user_message_override = None
    agent._session_db = None
    agent._session_messages = []
    agent.flushed_session_db_messages = []
    agent._flush_messages_to_session_db = lambda messages, conversation_history=None: (
        agent.flushed_session_db_messages.append([m.copy() for m in messages])
    )
    return agent


def test_persist_session_strips_trailing_empty_recovery_scaffolding():
    """After stripping scaffolding, also rewind past orphan trailing tool-result
    messages that the failed iteration left behind. Otherwise the next user
    message lands after a bare ``tool`` and produces a protocol-invalid
    sequence that most providers silently fail on, retriggering the empty-
    retry loop indefinitely.
    """
    agent = _agent_with_stubbed_persistence()
    messages = [
        {"role": "user", "content": "run the task"},
        {
            "role": "assistant",
            "content": "",
            "tool_calls": [{"id": "call_1", "type": "function",
                            "function": {"name": "x", "arguments": "{}"}}],
        },
        {"role": "tool", "content": "{}", "tool_call_id": "call_1"},
        {
            "role": "assistant",
            "content": "(empty)",
            "_empty_recovery_synthetic": True,
        },
        {
            "role": "user",
            "content": (
                "You just executed tool calls but returned an empty response. "
                "Please process the tool results above and continue with the task."
            ),
            "_empty_recovery_synthetic": True,
        },
    ]

    AIAgent._persist_session(agent, messages, conversation_history=[])

    # After strip + rewind, only the original user message remains. The
    # assistant(tool_calls) + tool pair is dropped because its iteration
    # never produced a real response.
    assert messages == [
        {"role": "user", "content": "run the task"},
    ]
    assert agent.flushed_session_db_messages[-1] == messages
    assert all(not msg.get("_empty_recovery_synthetic") for msg in messages)


def test_persist_session_keeps_unmarked_terminal_empty_response():
    agent = _agent_with_stubbed_persistence()
    messages = [
        {"role": "user", "content": "run the task"},
        {"role": "assistant", "content": "(empty)"},
    ]

    AIAgent._persist_session(agent, messages, conversation_history=[])

    assert messages == [
        {"role": "user", "content": "run the task"},
        {"role": "assistant", "content": "(empty)"},
    ]
    assert agent.flushed_session_db_messages[-1] == messages


def test_persist_session_strips_marked_terminal_empty_sentinel():
    agent = _agent_with_stubbed_persistence()
    messages = [
        {"role": "user", "content": "continue"},
        {
            "role": "assistant",
            "content": "(empty)",
            "_empty_terminal_sentinel": True,
        },
    ]

    AIAgent._persist_session(agent, messages, conversation_history=[])

    assert messages == [{"role": "user", "content": "continue"}]
    assert agent.flushed_session_db_messages[-1] == messages
    assert all(not msg.get("_empty_terminal_sentinel") for msg in messages)


def test_flush_never_writes_buried_empty_recovery_scaffolding():
    """When an empty-after-tools nudge is followed by a tool-calling response,
    the synthetic ``(empty)`` + nudge pair stays buried in the live message
    list (only the trailing copies are ever dropped). The append-only flush
    must skip it regardless of position, otherwise the synthetic turns land in
    the session store and pollute every resumed transcript.
    """
    agent = _agent_with_capturing_db()

    messages = [
        {"role": "user", "content": "run the task"},
        {
            "role": "assistant",
            "content": "",
            "tool_calls": [{"id": "call_1", "type": "function",
                            "function": {"name": "x", "arguments": "{}"}}],
        },
        {"role": "tool", "content": "{}", "tool_call_id": "call_1"},
        # Synthetic recovery scaffolding, now buried because the model answered
        # the nudge with another tool call rather than terminating.
        {"role": "assistant", "content": "(empty)", "_empty_recovery_synthetic": True},
        {
            "role": "user",
            "content": "You just executed tool calls but returned an empty response.",
            "_empty_recovery_synthetic": True,
        },
        {
            "role": "assistant",
            "content": "",
            "tool_calls": [{"id": "call_2", "type": "function",
                            "function": {"name": "x", "arguments": "{}"}}],
        },
        {"role": "tool", "content": "{}", "tool_call_id": "call_2"},
        {"role": "assistant", "content": "All done."},
    ]

    agent._flush_messages_to_session_db(messages, conversation_history=[])

    persisted = agent._session_db.rows
    assert all(row["content"] != "(empty)" for row in persisted)
    assert all("empty response" not in (row["content"] or "") for row in persisted)
    # Only the genuine turns reach the store, in order.
    assert [r["role"] for r in persisted] == [
        "user", "assistant", "tool", "assistant", "tool", "assistant",
    ]
    assert persisted[-1]["content"] == "All done."


def test_flush_skips_thinking_prefill_scaffolding():
    agent = _agent_with_capturing_db()
    messages = [
        {"role": "user", "content": "hi"},
        {"role": "assistant", "content": "", "_thinking_prefill": True},
        {"role": "assistant", "content": "Hello!"},
    ]
    agent._flush_messages_to_session_db(messages, conversation_history=[])

    assert [r["content"] for r in agent._session_db.rows] == ["hi", "Hello!"]