fix(gateway): handle silent audio and media producers

[dhansxd]

Summary

• Drop successful empty STT transcripts as valid no-speech before invoking the agent.
• Transcribe voice follow-ups before busy-session handling, so pending silence is discarded without interrupting active work.
• Recover allowed media producers from explicit tool-result tool_name / name when the paired assistant tool_calls row is absent.
• Log unsuccessful auto voice-reply SendResult values instead of silently ignoring them.

Generic symptoms

Command-backed STT can exit successfully with an empty transcript for silence. Fresh silent voice previously reached the LLM as a quoted empty string, while silent voice received during an active turn could queue and interrupt that turn.

Post-stream media extraction also required a paired assistant tool-call row. Persisted/reconstructed tool results that retained explicit producer metadata but lost that row could therefore fail to auto-deliver valid generated media.

Security invariant

Automatic file delivery remains fail-closed: explicit tool-result metadata only identifies the producer; producer must still match _AUTO_APPEND_MEDIA_TOOL_NAMES, and path matching plus delivery-path filtering remain unchanged. Arbitrary tools such as terminal cannot auto-deliver files.

Test evidence

Strict RED observed before implementation:

• tests/gateway/test_stt_config.py: 1 failed, 7 passed ('" \\n"' is None)
• tests/gateway/test_busy_session_ack.py: 1 failed, 26 passed (silent voice queued/interrupted)
• tests/gateway/test_media_extraction.py: 2 failed, 17 passed (explicit tool_name / name ignored); arbitrary producer cases passed
• tests/gateway/test_send_voice_reply_notify.py: 1 failed, 2 passed (unsuccessful send result not logged)

GREEN:

scripts/run_tests.sh tests/gateway/test_stt_config.py tests/gateway/test_busy_session_ack.py tests/gateway/test_media_extraction.py tests/gateway/test_send_voice_reply_notify.py -q
57 passed, 0 failed

scripts/run_tests.sh tests/gateway/test_telegram_audio_vs_voice.py tests/gateway/test_stt_transcript_echo_config.py tests/gateway/test_voice_command.py tests/gateway/test_tts_media_routing.py tests/gateway/test_telegram_documents.py tests/gateway/test_telegram_voice_duration.py -q
250 passed, 0 failed

scripts/run_tests.sh tests/gateway/test_run_tool_media_re.py tests/gateway/test_media_metadata_contract.py tests/gateway/test_platform_base.py -q
237 passed, 0 failed

uv run ruff check gateway/run.py tests/gateway/test_stt_config.py tests/gateway/test_busy_session_ack.py tests/gateway/test_media_extraction.py tests/gateway/test_send_voice_reply_notify.py
All checks passed

.venv/bin/python -m py_compile gateway/run.py tests/gateway/test_stt_config.py tests/gateway/test_busy_session_ack.py tests/gateway/test_media_extraction.py tests/gateway/test_send_voice_reply_notify.py
passed

git diff --check
passed

ruff format --check was also inspected but not used as a gate: current gateway/run.py and touched legacy test files are already not ruff-formatted on main; formatting whole files would create a large unrelated diff.

[tonydwb]

Code Review Summary

Verdict: Approved

Fix handles silent audio and media producers in gateway (+169 -6). Good edge case handling improvement.

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Reviewed by Hermes Agent

[teknium1]

Thanks for covering real gateway edge cases. The silent-STT, producer-metadata, and failed-send premises still exist on current main (gateway/run.py:15806, 1215, and 13730).

Problems

• The new busy-session voice branch calls adapter.send(...) before the local adapter binding. In current main, the binding remains later in the same function at gateway/run.py:5631; the PR inserts its echo call before that point. A normal non-empty transcript with STT echo enabled therefore raises instead of reaching busy handling. The added test only exercises the empty-transcript early return.

Suggested changes

• Move/resolve the adapter lookup before the new transcription block and retain the existing absent-adapter fallback.
• Add a busy non-empty-voice test with transcript echo enabled, asserting both the echo and subsequent busy-mode behavior.

Automated hermes-sweeper review.

[teknium1]

adapter is assigned only later in this function's normal busy-case setup. Resolve it before this STT block (and preserve the no-adapter fallback), otherwise a non-empty transcript with echo enabled raises here.

[andrexibiza]

Vox Lockin lane 07 verification — partially superseded on main; residual gaps shipped in #78196.

Probed against origin/main @ 70db671fac:

Already on main (not re-applied):

• Empty-transcript handling: fix(gateway): guard empty/inaudible voice transcripts in enrichment #41603's sentinel note (gateway/run.py:21335+) plus the pending-STT cache (f76b2b47aa, _transcribe_pending_audio_event_once) already cover "silent audio" — the busy-path reorder and text is None drop from this PR would regress that deliberate design.
• Transcript echo before busy handling is covered by _transcribe_and_echo_pending_voice at the interrupt/queue/drain sites.

Genuine residuals still missing on main (shipped in #78196, commit 2):

1. Producer recovery — _collect_auto_append_media_tags (gateway/run.py:1502) still rejects tool results whose paired assistant tool_calls row is absent; persisted/reconstructed tool rows that name their producer via tool_name/name fall out of the auto-delivery allowlist and their TTS/audio MEDIA: tags are silently dropped. This PR's fallback is correct and safe (allowlist still enforced — test_gateway_auto_append_rejects_unallowed_explicit_tool_name).
2. SendResult logging — _send_voice_reply (gateway/run.py:19080) ignores adapter.send_voice() failures.

This PR's head (f2554a9e57) is stale (merge base 5d9a72b7c2) and CONFLICTING/DIRTY against main. Cherry-picked the residual hunks with authorship preserved (Co-Authored-By: Dani Ubaidillah Husain), added regressions in tests/gateway/test_media_extraction.py (producer recovery ×2) and tests/gateway/test_tts_media_routing.py (delivery-failure logging). All targeted suites green locally: 61 passed.