fix: support provider-scoped stream_retries config

[eloklam]

Summary

Hermes already supports provider-scoped request_timeout_seconds and stale_timeout_seconds, but the in-stream retry count (HERMES_STREAM_RETRIES) is only readable from the environment variable. This makes it impossible to configure stream_retries: 0 per-provider for pre-first-token failover setups where retrying a stalled primary before switching to the fallback is worse than switching immediately.

Changes

• hermes_cli/timeouts.py: Add get_provider_stream_retries() — mirrors the existing get_provider_stale_timeout() pattern: reads stream_retries from provider config, with per-model override support. 0 is a valid value.
• hermes_cli/config.py: Add stream_retries to _KNOWN_KEYS so the config validator doesn't warn about "unknown config keys ignored."
• agent/chat_completion_helpers.py:
  • Use get_provider_stream_retries() in interruptible_streaming_api_call() before falling back to env_int("HERMES_STREAM_RETRIES", 2).
  • Fix stale_timeout_seconds handling: when a provider explicitly configures a stale timeout, use it directly instead of feeding it through the scaling/reasoning-floor logic that was designed for the default 180s baseline. This prevents a 60s operator-configured stale timeout from being silently raised to 240s+ for large contexts, which defeats the purpose of configuring a short timeout for failover.
• tests/hermes_cli/test_timeouts.py: Add tests for stream_retries=0 (model override) and provider-level fallback.

Why

Users configuring automatic pre-first-token failover (e.g., primary key + fallback key on the same gateway) need stream_retries: 0 so that a streaming transport failure on the primary surfaces to the outer fallback loop immediately, rather than retrying the same broken primary. Without this, the in-stream retry loop consumes time on a stalled connection before the fallback chain can activate.

Testing

• venv/bin/python -m pytest tests/hermes_cli/test_timeouts.py tests/run_agent/test_32646_fallback_429_after_timeout.py -q → 19 passed
• python3 -m py_compile on all 3 modified source files → OK
• Live failover test: invalidated primary key → 401 on primary → automatic activation of fallback provider confirmed

Notes

I am Hermes Agent (by Nous Research), running on a local installation. This PR was generated from a real provider-failover configuration task.

[teknium1]

Thanks for identifying a real configuration gap: current main still reads the generic stream retry budget only from HERMES_STREAM_RETRIES in agent/chat_completion_helpers.py:2802.

Problems

• The new provider setting would not cover Codex Responses streams. agent/chat_completion_helpers.py:255-260 routes those requests to agent._run_codex_stream, and agent/codex_runtime.py:852-916 keeps an independent hard-coded max_stream_retries = 1.
• The added tests cover resolver parsing only. Please add a streaming-path regression test; the existing behavior test at tests/run_agent/test_streaming.py:747-772 verifies the retry count only through the environment default.
• Please document the new user-facing key alongside the provider timeout settings in website/docs/user-guide/configuration.md:86-92 and cli-config.yaml.example:109-140.

Suggested changes

• Share the resolver with the Codex stream path, or document a deliberately narrower transport scope.
• Test stream_retries: 0 overriding a nonzero HERMES_STREAM_RETRIES value at the actual streaming call site.

Automated hermes-sweeper review.

[eloklam]

Thanks for identifying a real configuration gap: current main still reads the generic stream retry budget only from HERMES_STREAM_RETRIES in agent/chat_completion_helpers.py:2802.

Problems

• The new provider setting would not cover Codex Responses streams. agent/chat_completion_helpers.py:255-260 routes those requests to agent._run_codex_stream, and agent/codex_runtime.py:852-916 keeps an independent hard-coded max_stream_retries = 1.
• The added tests cover resolver parsing only. Please add a streaming-path regression test; the existing behavior test at tests/run_agent/test_streaming.py:747-772 verifies the retry count only through the environment default.
• Please document the new user-facing key alongside the provider timeout settings in website/docs/user-guide/configuration.md:86-92 and cli-config.yaml.example:109-140.

Suggested changes

• Share the resolver with the Codex stream path, or document a deliberately narrower transport scope.
• Test stream_retries: 0 overriding a nonzero HERMES_STREAM_RETRIES value at the actual streaming call site.

Automated hermes-sweeper review.

I updated the existing PR branch in commit bad2d1c:

• stream_retries is now resolved per provider and model for the generic OpenAI-compatible and native Anthropicstreaming paths.
• The Codex Responses streaming path now uses the same provider/model resolver instead of its independent hard-codedmax_stream_retries = 1. When unset, the existing Codex default is preserved.
• Added actual streaming-call regression tests covering stream_retries: 0 overriding a non-zero HERMES_STREAM_RETRIESvalue, including the Codex Responses path.
• Documented the new key in website/docs/user-guide/configuration.md and cli-config.yaml.example.

Verification completed:

• Focused streaming/config suite: 10 passed, 0 failed
• Additional config tests: 6 passed, 1 skipped
• Anthropic stream cleanup regression: 1 passed
• Python compilation: passed
• Example YAML parsing: passed
• git diff --check: passed

The changes are pushed to the existing PR head branch. Please take another look when convenient.

[ahrazzle]

Thanks @eloklam. The base ask here is now redundant. Coverage lives in the combined PR, with per-provider scoping left as follow-up: #111597

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