fix(runtime): remediate drift gate blockers

[solovision24]

Remediates the three Hermes origin/main drift gate blockers found during SoLoVision live fast-forward review.\n\nChanges:\n- Use a non-hardline dangerous command in the ACP approval isolation test and assert hardline commands still bypass callbacks and block unconditionally.\n- Make inline skill shell timeout handling kill the process group and return the timeout marker without dropping the rest of the skill message.\n- Make Kanban PID/liveness tests hermetic under the live-system guard, with a narrow bypass only for the real child zombie signal test.\n\nVerification:\n- python -m pytest tests/acp/test_approval_isolation.py::TestAcpExecAskGate::test_interactive_env_var_routes_to_callback tests/agent/test_skill_commands.py::TestInlineShellExpansion::test_inline_shell_timeout_does_not_break_message tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_core_functionality.py::test_pid_alive_helper tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_core_functionality.py::test_pid_alive_detects_zombie tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_core_functionality.py::test_detect_crashed_workers_increments_counter -q -o 'addopts=' → 5 passed in 2.90s\n- python -m pytest tests/acp/test_approval_isolation.py tests/agent/test_skill_commands.py tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_core_functionality.py -q -o 'addopts=' → 201 passed in 6.09s

[solovision24]

Dev rebase/verification update for Kanban t_499a9596.

• Rebased remediation onto current origin/main and force-with-lease updated this PR branch.
• New PR head: 71c047d8b20f1303f17c2369cad2e8c95da1b655
• Current origin/main used for verification: 92273e4f57af6f80384dae295bf2fa4b6362a0a4
• Targeted blocker rerun:
  • /home/solo/.hermes/hermes-agent/venv/bin/python -m pytest tests/acp/test_approval_isolation.py::TestAcpExecAskGate::test_interactive_env_var_routes_to_callback tests/agent/test_skill_commands.py::TestInlineShellExpansion::test_inline_shell_timeout_does_not_break_message tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_core_functionality.py::test_pid_alive_helper tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_core_functionality.py::test_pid_alive_detects_zombie tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_core_functionality.py::test_detect_crashed_workers_increments_counter -q -o 'addopts='
  • Result: 5 passed in 1.53s
• Relevant runtime gates rerun:
  • /home/solo/.hermes/hermes-agent/venv/bin/python -m pytest tests/acp/test_approval_isolation.py tests/agent/test_skill_commands.py tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_core_functionality.py -q -o 'addopts='
  • Result: 215 passed in 9.99s
• Remote branch verified: fork/dev/t_499a9596-origin-main-gate-remediation -> 71c047d8b20f1303f17c2369cad2e8c95da1b655.

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[teknium1]

Thanks for the focused remediation work here. The overall direction looks salvageable, but I found one concrete regression in the PR diff.

Problems

• agent/skill_preprocessing.py:87 in PR head 71c047d8b20f1303f17c2369cad2e8c95da1b655 switches inline shell execution to subprocess.Popen(...) without setting stdin=. agent/ is covered by the repository’s TUI-context subprocess guard: scripts/check_subprocess_stdin.py:9-11 requires subprocess.run/Popen calls in agent/, tools/, plugins/, and tui_gateway/ to set stdin= so the TUI gateway JSON-RPC stdin is not inherited, and tests/tools/test_subprocess_stdin_guard.py:25-34 asserts that check passes. Current main’s call at agent/skill_preprocessing.py:70-78 uses stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL, so the PR drops an existing safety invariant.

Suggested changes

• Add stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL to the PR’s popen_kwargs before the subprocess.Popen call, while keeping the new process-group timeout cleanup.
• Include the subprocess-stdin guard/test in verification along with the targeted runtime-gate tests.

This is an automated hermes-sweeper review.

[teknium1]

Thanks for the focused runtime-gate remediation. The inline-shell process-group cleanup addresses a behavior still present on current main (agent/skill_preprocessing.py:73-81), but the Popen conversion needs to preserve two current-main invariants.

Problems

• agent/skill_preprocessing.py:87 in PR head 71c047d8b20f1303f17c2369cad2e8c95da1b655 calls subprocess.Popen without stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL. scripts/check_subprocess_stdin.py:9-11 requires this for agent/ subprocesses, and current main already protects this call at agent/skill_preprocessing.py:80 (commit d1f23bb2d).
• The new kwargs also omit current main's Windows creationflags=windows_hide_flags() handling at agent/skill_preprocessing.py:71,81. tests/test_windows_subprocess_no_window_flags.py:286-301 covers this behavior and currently mocks subprocess.run, so it must be updated for the Popen path.

Suggested changes

• Add stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL and preserve the existing Windows creation flags in popen_kwargs, alongside the POSIX process-group setup.
• Update the Windows regression test to mock Popen and assert the creation flags; include the subprocess-stdin guard in verification.

This is an automated hermes-sweeper review.

[teknium1]

Please preserve current main's subprocess invariants here: add stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL (required by scripts/check_subprocess_stdin.py for agent/ calls) and carry forward the existing Windows creationflags=windows_hide_flags() behavior. The current Windows regression test mocks subprocess.run, so update it to exercise this Popen path too.

[GottZ]

This was generated by AI during triage.

Summary

Two PRs address or reference this issue complex. #13525 implemented the ACP approval-routing and per-thread callback fix, while #27783 updates its regression coverage and fixes separate inline-shell timeout and Kanban test-hermeticity drift blockers.

Related pull requests

• #13525 [merged] related — (+236/-20) — merged reference implementation: wires ACP sessions into the interactive approval path and replaces process-global approval and sudo callbacks with thread-local storage, directly addressing both the unused callback and concurrent-session collision causes; it remains relevant as the implementation whose regression test #27783 adjusts.
• #27783 related — (+77/-17) — keep open pending fixes: the diff correctly replaces the obsolete hardline ACP fixture, preserves explicit hardline blocking coverage, adds process-group cleanup for timed-out inline shell commands, and makes Kanban liveness tests more hermetic. Consistent with the keep_open review on #27783, its Popen conversion currently drops stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL and current-main Windows creation flags, so those invariants and their guard tests must be restored before merge.

Suggested consolidation

Keep #13525 as the merged reference implementation and keep #27783 open for consolidation of the remaining drift-gate remediations; merge #27783 only after restoring stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL, preserving Windows creation flags, updating the affected Popen regression coverage, and rerunning the subprocess-stdin, Windows, ACP, inline-shell, and Kanban gates. The PRs are complementary rather than duplicates, so neither should be closed as a duplicate.

Cross-PR triage: Reviewed 2 pull requests and 0 issues in this complex. Each diff was read against this issue; Assessment working set: 21 kB of PR diffs, 4 kB of issue/PR text, 5 kB of discussion (5 comments), 0 verify verdicts. verdicts reflect diff content, not PR titles. Part of an automated triage batch.