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Closes #76762

@alt-glitch alt-glitch added type/bug Something isn't working comp/cron Cron scheduler and job management tool/terminal Terminal execution and process management P2 Medium — degraded but workaround exists sweeper:risk-security-boundary Sweeper risk: may affect sandboxing, auth, credentials, or sensitive data labels Aug 2, 2026
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This was generated by AI during triage.

Related to #76762, the reproduced absolute-path lifecycle-guard failure this PR repairs.

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Thanks for the focused regression fix. Current main still has the unhandled path at cron/lifecycle_guard.py:298-302: Path.resolve(strict=False) is guarded only by OSError, while the gateway terminal path invokes this shared checker at tools/terminal_tool.py:2527.

PR commit 40d3e2de2303813f5f13e8877e0cb5c30eaaf3d1 covers both parts of the failure class: it handles ValueError in the resolve/read path and avoids treating NUL-containing binary headers as referenced shell scripts, while retaining scans for shebang scripts. The added regression cases in tests/hermes_cli/test_gateway_restart_loop.py cover null-byte executable input, ordinary and oversized binaries, and shell-script execution paths.

Automated hermes-sweeper review.

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Independent validation of commit 40d3e2de2303813f5f13e8877e0cb5c30eaaf3d1:

  • a representative macOS absolute-path Python invocation no longer raises and is allowed;
  • /usr/bin/python3 -c "print(1)" is allowed;
  • hermes gateway restart is still identified as a blocked lifecycle action;
  • the current main version still reproduces the original exception.

This addresses the direct terminal failure from #76762 without removing the intended gateway-lifecycle protection.

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Collaboration note: this PR supersedes @blut-agent's #76813, which was consolidated here after triage flagged it as a duplicate. The ValueError handling in the lifecycle_guard resolve/open paths originates from his work — credit for that part belongs to him.

beardedeagle and others added 12 commits August 4, 2026 08:35
Replaces the synchronous per-sentence streamer.stream() loop in
stream_tts_to_speaker with a per-sentence prefetch pipeline. Each
sentence gets its own background thread that fires the HTTP request
immediately, buffering PCM chunks into a per-segment queue (capped at
3 concurrent via semaphore). A single playback worker drains segments
in FIFO order with PortAudio error recovery (reinit up to 3 attempts,
then temp-file fallback). Also fixes PCM chunk alignment for odd-byte
HTTP chunks and increases the worker join timeout from 30s to 300s.

Salvage of PR NousResearch#71084 onto current main.

Closes NousResearch#71084
- carry mark_audio_output_active into playback worker (df093bf)
- close temp WAV handle before playback (555d4e1)
- move sentinel + join into finally block (exception-path deadlock)
- update _pcm_leftover before continue on reinit+rewrite success
- remove dead _playback_done event
- extract shared _create_output_stream helper (dedup)
- extract shared _align_int16_chunks generator (dedup)
Start from main's 13 tests (renamed test_openai_available_reflects_key
to test_openai_available_reflects_audio_key_resolution, added 4 new
tests for xai oauth, elevenlabs secret resolver, openai configured
key, stream cap). Append 12 new regression tests from PR NousResearch#71084 for
the prefetch pipeline, PCM misalignment, and PortAudio resilience.
Patch platform.system in stream-path tests for main's macOS guard.
…eadonly

- Merge _aux_free_only() + _aux_openrouter_model() into single
  _aux_openrouter_settings() that reads config once via
  load_config_readonly (avoids double deepcopy).
- Remove 15-line block comment and 5-line inline comment that
  restated what the code already says.
- Trim module docstring from 10 lines to 3.
- Update test patches to target load_config_readonly.
Multiplexed gateways resolve credentials through the fail-closed
per-profile secret scope (agent/secret_scope.py, Workstream A): any
get_secret() read outside a set_secret_scope(...) block raises
UnscopedSecretError. The agent turn installs the scope via _run_agent's
profile-scoping wrapper, but slash-command dispatch does not — so manual
/compress reached provider resolution unscoped and every invocation on a
gateway.multiplex_profiles: true deployment failed with:

  Manual compress failed: get_secret('OPENROUTER_BASE_URL') called with
  no profile secret scope active while multiplexing is on.

Same bug class as the cron scheduler (NousResearch#57692) and the /v1/runs agent
path — an un-migrated call site the fail-closed design is meant to catch.

Two changes, both required:

- _handle_compress_command becomes a profile-scoping wrapper around the
  existing handler (renamed _handle_compress_command_inner), mirroring
  _run_agent: gated on multiplex_profiles, resolves the source profile's
  home and runs the whole handler inside _profile_runtime_scope. Covers
  the coroutine-side read (_resolve_session_agent_runtime).
- The compressor call switches from a bare loop.run_in_executor(None, …)
  to the existing _run_in_executor_with_context helper, so the scope
  contextvar survives the thread hop into _compress_context, where the
  aux-client provider resolution reads credentials.

Single-profile gateways take the pass-through branch — zero behavior
change (pinned by test).

Tests: 2 added (scoped read inside the executor under fail-closed
multiplexing reproduces the field failure pre-fix; single-profile
pass-through). 162 gateway compress/multiplex-scope tests green.
…ltiplex profiles

Fix NousResearch#75349

Root cause:
Under multiplex_profiles, secondary profiles run inside
_profile_runtime_scope which installs a per-profile secret scope via
set_secret_scope.  The WhatsApp adapter (and the shared
WhatsAppBehaviorMixin + Cloud API adapter) read WHATSAPP_MODE,
WHATSAPP_DM_POLICY, etc. via raw os.getenv(), bypassing the secret
scope.  Since os.environ doesn't contain secondary profile .env values,
the bridge silently falls back to 'self-chat' and rejects all inbound
messages with self_chat_mode_rejects_non_self.

Fix:
- Add _wenv() helper in adapter.py that reads WHATSAPP_* vars through
  get_secret() (agent.secret_scope), which honors the active scope.
- Replace all os.getenv('WHATSAPP_*') calls in adapter.py,
  whatsapp_common.py, and whatsapp_cloud.py with get_secret()-based
  equivalents.
- Inject resolved WHATSAPP_* values into the bridge subprocess
  environment so the Node.js bridge (which reads process.env) sees the
  profile's own configuration.

Changes:
- plugins/platforms/whatsapp/adapter.py: 37 lines (+ helper, bridge_env
  injection, 2 os.getenv→_wenv)
- gateway/platforms/whatsapp_common.py: 13 lines (6 os.getenv→_get_wsecret)
- gateway/platforms/whatsapp_cloud.py: 21 lines (9 os.getenv→_get_wsecret)
- New regression test: 6 test cases covering scope isolation, fallback,
  and cross-profile non-leakage.
…idge env set

Follow-ups on the NousResearch#75382 salvage (review findings):
- _wenv/_get_wsecret now catch UnscopedSecretError and fall back to
  os.getenv for the DEFAULT profile's adapter, which constructs and sends
  outside any _profile_runtime_scope under multiplexing — a bare
  get_secret would crash its WhatsApp path (fixing one profile by
  breaking another). Same pattern as Slack SLACK_APP_TOKEN (NousResearch#59739) and
  the Matrix recovery key. Scoped misses still return the default — no
  cross-profile borrow.
- bridge_env overlay extended to the full WHATSAPP_* set bridge.js
  consumes (DEBUG, FORWARD_OWNER_MESSAGES, REPLY_PREFIX,
  MAX_MESSAGE_LENGTH, CHUNK_DELAY_MS, SEND_TIMEOUT_MS).
- Removed the always-true conditional on WHATSAPP_MODE injection.
The salvaged hydrate_profile_secret_sources (NousResearch#74549) seeded its
profile-local env from <home>/.env only, but the documented 1Password
bootstrap flow puts OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN in the gitignored
<home>/.op.env (mirrored from load_hermes_dotenv). A cold profile using
that flow still failed 1Password hydration — the one unaddressed item
from the sweeper review on NousResearch#74549. Seed .op.env via setdefault so .env
values win; never touches os.environ. Two regression tests.
JoaoMarcos44 and others added 10 commits August 4, 2026 08:35
Addresses the hermes-sweeper review on NousResearch#76188:

1. task_id is session-scoped (task_id == session_id), not turn-scoped,
   and the reap runs on a detached thread. A replacement turn could
   claim the same session and spawn a legitimate process before the
   previous turn's reaper thread actually enumerates its targets,
   killing that new process by mistake.

   Fixed by gating the reap on the existing run_generation mechanism
   (_is_session_run_current) instead of inventing a new ownership
   token: the timeout path captures its own run_generation at turn
   start, the interrupt path captures the generation immediately after
   invalidating it. If a newer turn has since claimed the session, the
   reap is skipped — that newer turn owns its own baseline, so nothing
   is left permanently unreaped.

2. gateway/platforms/api_server.py's SSE handlers for chat-completions
   and the /api/sessions responses endpoint run their own agent
   lifecycle via _run_agent() and never passed through TurnRunner, so
   client-disconnect abandonment there had no baseline and no reap —
   contradicting the PR's stated disconnect coverage. Both disconnect
   handlers now snapshot/reap through the same
   tools.process_registry primitives, via a small
   _reap_disconnected_agent_processes() helper shared by both call
   sites.
…ct reap

dbbb10d shipped without direct test coverage for its own new logic
— the same gap teknium's review flagged on the competing PR. Close it:

- _reap_gateway_turn_processes: skips when is_still_current() is
  False, proceeds when True, fails open (reaps) if the check itself
  raises rather than silently disabling the leak fix.
- _abandon_timed_out_gateway_turn: still marks the turn abandoned
  (interrupt fires) even when the reap itself is skipped.
- api_server._reap_disconnected_agent_processes: reaps the
  baseline-diff for an owned turn, no-ops when the agent never
  recorded ownership markers.
- APIServerAdapter._run_agent: markers are populated with the right
  task_id/baseline during the turn and cleared once it completes,
  closing the same race window fixed in gateway/run.py for this
  separate agent-lifecycle surface.
…r's result

Two follow-ups from review of the salvaged fix:

- _reap_gateway_turn_processes now returns 0 for a blank task_id.
  ProcessSession.task_id defaults to empty for sessionless callers, so a
  blank turn id would match (and kill) every unrelated empty-task process
  instead of the turn's own.

- The asyncio poll loop checks executor completion BEFORE the watchdog's
  timeout flag. When both race in the same window, the completed run has
  already persisted its real reply to session history; surfacing the
  'agent inactive' diagnostic would contradict the stored transcript.
  This matches _abandon_timed_out_gateway_turn's own worker-done-wins
  tiebreak.
…s sibling

The API server intentionally lets concurrent runs share a client-provided
session_id (= process task_id), so the SSE-disconnect reap could kill a
process a still-live concurrent run spawned after the disconnecting run's
baseline — the same stale-reaper bug class the gateway path gates via
run_generation.

- Per-task-id run epochs (monotonic counter): each run claims the epoch at
  publish; a reaper holding a superseded epoch declines to kill. A missing
  entry (the run's own clear pruned it) still reaps, so the leak fix isn't
  silently disabled.
- _publish_turn_process_ownership / _clear_turn_process_ownership helpers
  replace the copy-pasted marker set/clear blocks, so attribute names and
  epoch bookkeeping can't drift between surfaces.
- /v1/runs — the third own-lifecycle surface — now records ownership and
  reaps on POST /v1/runs/{id}/stop and on server-side SSE cancellation,
  closing the remaining sibling paths of NousResearch#76115.
… exclude_ids

kill_started_since duplicated kill_all's collect-under-lock/kill-outside-lock
loop line for line; it is now a thin delegate through new kill_all kwargs
(exclude_ids, source, consume_output). Public signatures unchanged — existing
callers and test monkeypatch seams keep working. kill_process's docstring now
names the deliberate consume_output=True exception for abandoned-turn reaping
so the deviation isn't 'fixed' later.
…ig.yaml

agent_import.py carries a private load_yaml_file/dump_yaml_file pair that
returned {} for an absent file AND for a present file it could not read or
parse. Three importers -- import_permission_allowlist, import_permission_denylist
and import_mcp_servers -- read config.yaml through it, merge one section into
the result, and write the whole mapping straight back. So a YAML syntax error,
a permission problem or a broken mount meant the importer replaced every
setting the user had with only the one to three keys it merged, and still
reported the item as "imported". The write was a bare path.write_text(), so an
interrupted import truncated the file instead.

Distinguish the two cases at the read. Absent, or present but empty, still
yields {} so first-time creation works. Present but unreadable, unparseable, or
not a mapping raises ConfigReadError; the three sites funnel through a new
load_target_config() that records the refusal as a per-item error and leaves the
file byte-identical. Dry-run refuses too, rather than previewing an "imported"
that would destroy the config. dump_yaml_file now writes through
utils.atomic_write_text, which the module already imports and uses for the
memory store.

This is the invariant hermes_cli/config.py already enforces for its own writers
via require_readable_config_before_write / atomic_config_write, whose docstring
names this exact root cause and calls itself "the single chokepoint every
config-update path should use". agent_import.py has its own helper pair and so
was never covered; it was the last config.yaml writer without the guard.

The identical helper pair lives in openclaw_to_hermes.py, the script this module
was ported from, where twelve config.yaml read-modify-write sites share the same
defect; fixed there too. Its refusal is recorded at the run_if_selected dispatch
point, which flips the existing _config_apply_blocked flag so the remaining
config-mutating options short-circuit instead of each rediscovering the same
unreadable file. The atomic write is inlined with tempfile + os.replace because
that script runs standalone with only the stdlib on its path.
…omic write

The inlined temp-file + os.replace in openclaw_to_hermes.dump_yaml_file
replaced a symlinked config.yaml with a regular file, silently detaching
managed deployments that symlink ~/.hermes/config.yaml into a dotfiles repo or
profile package. The bare path.write_text it replaced followed the link, and
utils.atomic_replace -- which the hermes_cli twin reaches through
atomic_write_text -- resolves the link for exactly this reason (NousResearch#16743).

Mirror that here: resolve the symlink before creating the temp file so the
rename lands on the real file, and fall back to copyfile on EXDEV/EBUSY now
that the target can live on another device. Covered by a regression test that
fails when the resolution is removed.

Also guard the permission-denied test for Windows: os.geteuid does not exist
there and chmod-based denial is unreliable, so skip on non-POSIX.
- agent_import.dump_yaml_file now calls utils.atomic_yaml_write instead
  of hand-rolling safe_dump + atomic_write_text — same temp+fsync+atomic
  rename and symlink preservation, plus mode/owner preservation a
  0600-secured config.yaml needs
- openclaw script: the EXDEV/EBUSY copy fallback gains copystat + target
  fsync so the docstring's 'mirrors utils.atomic_replace' durability
  claim is true on cross-device deployments
- trim load_yaml_file's docstring to the behavior contract
Exact parity with utils.atomic_replace: its target fsync is wrapped in
try/except OSError. A failed fsync after a successful copy must not
surface the already-completed write as an error (Windows can raise on
fsync of a read-only handle).
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