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#86721's fix (`recover_interrupted_executions()` before claiming, to reap an execution ledger row stranded `claimed`/`running` by a dead process) landed in `_try_dispatch_background_run()`. But that function's own `async_delivery_supported()` gate returns `None` — falling through to `_execute_job_now()` — whenever the calling session is stateless.

A one-shot `hermes cron run` invocation always declares its session stateless: `hermes_cli/cron.py::_job_action` scopes `_SESSION_ASYNC_DELIVERY` to `False` for the duration of the CLI action, specifically so a background-dispatched daemon thread doesn't get orphaned when the process exits right after the tool call returns. That means the #86721 recovery call is unreachable on exactly the CLI path the issue was filed against.

Evidence

  • Two commits landed within about 3 hours of each other on the same day, apparently unaware of each other: `0fc2a10d82` (forces the stateless declaration for `hermes cron run`) and `22e638db7c` (adds the recovery call, but behind the gate the first commit now always trips).
  • `_execute_job_now()` — what a stateless `hermes cron run` session actually falls through to — never calls `recover_interrupted_executions()` itself.
  • cron run from one-shot CLI orphans the job: async delegation dies with the calling process, execution stuck 'claimed' forever #86721's own regression test (`test_try_dispatch_background_run_calls_recovery_before_claiming`) has to monkeypatch `async_delivery_supported()` to `True` to reach the code it's testing at all — the exact opposite of what a real `hermes cron run` invocation does.

Impact

Without a gateway running to periodically self-heal via the ticker's own startup reap (a documented, supported "headless cron via external scheduler" deployment mode with no gateway process), a stale `claimed`/`running` execution-ledger row left by a crashed one-shot `hermes cron run` invocation is never cleared — `cronjob list`/`list_executions` keeps showing a phantom in-flight run for a job that's actually long dead.

Fix

Duplicate the same reap call (from `_try_dispatch_background_run`) into `_execute_job_now()`, before its own claim attempt — mirroring the existing self-heal rather than hoisting it to their shared caller, so `_execute_job_now` stays self-contained for any other entry point.

Testing

Extended `tests/cron/test_cron_run_stale_claim_reap_86721.py` with 3 new tests:

  • `test_hermes_cron_run_never_reaches_the_86721_recovery_call` — pins the reachability gap itself: with `async_delivery_supported()` False (the real `hermes cron run` condition), `_try_dispatch_background_run` returns `None` without ever calling `recover_interrupted_executions()`.
  • `test_execute_job_now_calls_recovery_before_claiming` — unit check that `_execute_job_now` now calls the recovery function before its own claim attempt.
  • `test_execute_job_now_reaps_a_real_stale_claim_from_a_dead_process` — end-to-end, mirroring the existing real-subprocess pattern in this file: a genuinely dead-owner `claimed` row is reclassified to `unknown` by the time `_execute_job_now` runs, unblocking the job.

Mutation-verified: reverting the production fix makes the 2 new `_execute_job_now`-targeted tests fail with the exact pre-fix symptom (`'claimed' == 'unknown'` assertion failure); the reachability-gap test passes either way since it documents `_try_dispatch_background_run`'s existing (unchanged) behavior.

Full `tests/cron/` suite + `tests/tools/test_cronjob_tools.py`/`test_cronjob_run_background.py`/`test_cronjob_run_immediate.py`: 901 passed. `ruff check` clean.

Competing PRs — textual proximity, not semantic overlap

Two large open PRs rewrite `_execute_job_now`'s opening lines for unrelated reasons — flagging for transparency, not because either addresses this gap (checked their diffs directly):

  • feat(cron): keep scheduler state out of jobs.json (cron/runtime.db) #75833 (`fix(cron): harden runtime ownership, supervision, and recovery`) replaces `claim_job_for_fire` with a token-based `claim_job_for_fire_token`/`release_fire_claim` fencing mechanism. Does not touch `_SESSION_ASYNC_DELIVERY`/`_job_action`, and its rewritten `_execute_job_now` does not add a pre-claim reap call.
  • fix(cron): make execution ledger failure-atomic #67100 (`fix(cron): make execution ledger failure-atomic`) makes ledger-row creation atomic with the claim via a receipt/rollback mechanism. Same story: doesn't touch the stateless-session gate, doesn't add a reap call.

Both would need this fix rebased onto their new shape if they merge first — a normal follow-up, not a reason to withhold a real, independently-verified gap.

… for hermes cron run

NousResearch#86721's fix (recover_interrupted_executions() before claiming) landed in
_try_dispatch_background_run() — but that function's own
async_delivery_supported() gate returns None (falling through to
_execute_job_now()) whenever the calling session is stateless. A one-shot
`hermes cron run` invocation always declares its session stateless
(hermes_cli/cron.py::_job_action scopes _SESSION_ASYNC_DELIVERY to False
for the duration of the CLI action, specifically so background dispatch
doesn't orphan a daemon thread when the process exits). That means the
NousResearch#86721 recovery call is unreachable on exactly the CLI path the issue was
filed against — confirmed by tracing the two commits that landed within
hours of each other (0fc2a10 forcing the stateless declaration,
22e638d adding the recovery call behind the gate it's forced past) and
empirically: the fix's own regression test has to monkeypatch
async_delivery_supported() to True to reach the code it's testing at all,
the opposite of what a real `hermes cron run` invocation does.

_execute_job_now() — what a stateless `hermes cron run` session actually
falls through to — never calls recover_interrupted_executions() itself, so
without a gateway running to periodically self-heal via the ticker's own
startup reap, a stale 'claimed'/'running' execution row from a crashed
one-shot invocation is never cleared.

Duplicate the same reap call into _execute_job_now(), before its own claim
attempt, mirroring _try_dispatch_background_run()'s existing self-heal
rather than hoisting it to their shared caller — keeps the function
self-contained for any other entry point.
@alt-glitch alt-glitch added type/bug Something isn't working P2 Medium — degraded but workaround exists comp/cron Cron scheduler and job management labels Aug 15, 2026
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fix(cron): make the #86721 stale-execution reap reachable for hermes cron run

  1. tools/cronjob_tools.py _execute_job_now() now calls recover_interrupted_executions() on every invocation, including tick/scheduler paths that already reap via _try_dispatch_background_run() — a double reap per dispatch. Harmless if the recovery scan is cheap and idempotent, but worth confirming it is not a full-table scan per job.
  2. The e2e test (test_execute_job_now_reaps_a_real_stale_claim_from_a_dead_process) derives the repo root via Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2] and runs subprocesses against the source tree with PYTHONPATH=repo. That works in a checkout but breaks if the suite is ever run from an installed wheel (no cron/ package at that depth). Consider deriving the root from a marker file (e.g., pyproject.toml) or documenting it as checkout-only.
  3. Minor: the _reclaimed count is only used for a warning log — exposing it (return value, metric, or structured log) would make the self-heal observable and testable beyond ordering.
  4. Minor: the comment justifies the duplication, but a shared helper called by both entry points would prevent the two reap calls from drifting apart (different gating conditions, different ordering guarantees).

teknium1 pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 18, 2026
`_try_dispatch_background_run` returned at the `async_delivery_supported()`
gate before reaching `_reap_stale_executions`, so on the one-shot
`hermes cron run` path (the CLI scopes `_SESSION_ASYNC_DELIVERY` to False)
the dead-owner reap never ran: an execution row left 'running' by a killed
prior run stayed that way until a scheduler tick — exactly the gap the
helper's own docstring says it exists to close.

Hoist the reap above the gate; the async dispatch path keeps its existing
reap-before-claim ordering.

Salvaged from #113938 (@kvnloo, source hunk verbatim; its test hunk is
replaced by an invariant test in a follow-up commit). #86981 (@pierrenode)
identified the same gap first and placed a duplicate reap in
`_execute_job_now`; superseded by this single hoist.

Part of #113923.

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jervaise added a commit to jervaise/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Sep 19, 2026
…ion document (#1)

* fix(picker): never wait on provider catalog probes in the model-options read path

Opening the desktop model picker could sit on skeleton placeholders for 70s+
because a normal open (refresh=False) ran live provider catalog probes inline:
the serial row pass fetched each stale provider's /v1/models itself, and the
parallel prefetch joined every worker, so one degraded provider (hanging
endpoint, failed auth probe) held the whole response.

A normal open is now a read path:

* cached_provider_model_ids(non_blocking=True) serves the same-credentials
  disk entry of any age and refreshes it in a daemon thread; a cold row
  returns [] so the row keeps its curated list.
* list_authenticated_providers(non_blocking_catalogs=True) skips the joining
  prefetch and reads every row cache-only; build_model_options_payload turns
  it on for refresh=False (api-server / dashboard / TUI model.options).
* rows whose catalog is still warming carry catalog_pending, so a GUI can
  tell "not resolved yet" from "that is the provider's catalog".
* Ollama Cloud's 8s probe becomes a cached read + background warm; the
  loopback LM Studio probe stays (1.5s, cannot be a degraded remote).
* The SWR write now takes the cache lock: the read path spawns one warm per
  stale provider, and concurrent load-modify-save dropped rows.

An explicit refresh (Refresh Models) still probes live and blocking.

(cherry picked from commit 0f2c2e7a3631f2c8f3b5140642306eaf2d688682)

* fix(picker): curated fallback for cold OAuth rows; Z.AI failed-probe negative cache; trim salvage

Salvage follow-up to the previous commit (#114397 by @Finn763):

- Codex/Copilot rows went through cached_provider_model_ids directly, so a
  cold cache on the non-blocking read path rendered an EMPTY Copilot row
  (live repro: copilot:0). Route them through _live_or_curated_ids like
  every other built-in so the curated list fills the first open.
- Drop the catalog_pending row flag, provider_catalogs_refreshing and
  _mark_catalogs_pending: no surface consumes it and it would have needed
  a gateway contract regen. Drop the _spawn_background_warm wrapper: the
  ollama-cloud row's own SWR refresh already warms that cache.
- Z.AI endpoint detection only persists a SUCCESS, so a key that 429s on
  every endpoint re-ran four chat-completion probes on every
  credential-pool load (load_pool("zai") runs several times per picker
  open; the reporter's logs show exactly these repeated POSTs). Memoize
  the failure in-process for 5 minutes. Copilot already has the same
  negative cache for its token exchange.
- Tests trimmed to two invariants (degraded provider cannot stall the
  open + row still renders; explicit refresh still probes) plus one for
  the Z.AI negative cache; a rigid test fake gains **kw for the widened
  cached_provider_model_ids signature.
- Docs: how GUI pickers source per-provider lists and what Refresh does.

Live repro (temp HERMES_HOME, five built-ins pointed at a stalling
/v1/models stand-in, Z.AI key set): refresh=False 50.5s on origin/main ->
3.7s on this head; without Z.AI 43.7s -> 1.3s.

* fix: cache_only Ollama Cloud read no longer rewrites the disk cache

fetch_ollama_cloud_models(cache_only=True) (the GUI picker read path)
persisted the models.dev-only merge with a fresh timestamp. That dropped
every live-only id from the disk cache and made the next probing call
serve the trimmed list for an hour instead of hitting /v1/models.

Persist only a result that included the live catalog. Without one
(cache_only, no key, or a failed probe) serve the stale disk cache, else
the models.dev list, and leave the file untouched.

* fix(kanban): decode worker wait status bit-level, not via os.WIFEXITED

os.WIFEXITED / os.WEXITSTATUS / os.WIFSIGNALED / os.WTERMSIG do not exist on
Windows, so _classify_worker_exit could never read a recorded status there
and always fell through to "unknown". Decode the POSIX wait-status layout
directly (low 7 bits = signal, bits 8-15 = exit code); identical results on
POSIX, and usable by the Windows exit capture added in the next commit.

Ported from #114589 (the portable-decode hunk); the review-lane failure
budget and provider classification from that PR are not included.

* fix(kanban): capture worker exit codes on Windows so rate-limited exits requeue

reap_worker_zombies was a no-op on Windows and _default_spawn dropped the
Popen handle, so the exit registry was never populated there: every dead
worker classified as "unknown" and a KANBAN_RATE_LIMIT_EXIT_CODE exit was
counted as a crash. Windows has no waitpid(-1) and an exited child's code is
only recoverable through a live handle, so _default_spawn parks each
worker's Popen (Windows only) and the reaper polls those handles, encoding
the returncode in the wait-status layout the registry already stores.

Host-specific: the Windows arm is covered by a flag-driven test on every
host plus a windows_only native test; POSIX reaping is unchanged.

* fix(tests): accept the _kb._IS_WINDOWS guard in the kanban waitpid source-text test

reap_worker_zombies now gates on _kb._IS_WINDOWS (the kanban_db flag the
dispatch tests flip instead of faking sys.platform) and parks a Popen-poll
branch between the guard and os.waitpid, so the os.name-only pattern list
and 400-char lookback in test_source_gates_waitpid_loop went red. Teach the
test the new guard spelling and widen the lookback; production unchanged.

* fix(cron): reap stale executions before the one-shot early return

`_try_dispatch_background_run` returned at the `async_delivery_supported()`
gate before reaching `_reap_stale_executions`, so on the one-shot
`hermes cron run` path (the CLI scopes `_SESSION_ASYNC_DELIVERY` to False)
the dead-owner reap never ran: an execution row left 'running' by a killed
prior run stayed that way until a scheduler tick — exactly the gap the
helper's own docstring says it exists to close.

Hoist the reap above the gate; the async dispatch path keeps its existing
reap-before-claim ordering.

Salvaged from #113938 (@kvnloo, source hunk verbatim; its test hunk is
replaced by an invariant test in a follow-up commit). #86981 (@pierrenode)
identified the same gap first and placed a duplicate reap in
`_execute_job_now`; superseded by this single hoist.

Part of #113923.

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* fix(cli): /cron run reports a refused run instead of "Triggered … next scheduler tick"

`_cron_job_action` printed `(^_^)b Triggered job … It will run on the next
scheduler tick.` unconditionally for `run`, so a run-now the tool refused
(`execution_skipped`: paused job, claim held by another run) was
indistinguishable from an accepted one. Print the refusal, and otherwise
reuse `hermes_cli.cron._run_outcome` — the same verdict line `hermes cron run`
already prints (ran now / background / skipped).

Tests: one invariant per atom — the real one-shot CLI shape
(`_SESSION_ASYNC_DELIVERY` scoped False) reaps a dead-owner 'running' ledger
row before the sync fallback; `/cron run` on a refused claim prints the reason
and never "Triggered". Both red on origin/main. Replaces the #113938 test hunk
(it relocated the prior test's assertion). Docs: execution-history section
notes the pre-manual-run reap.

Part of #113923.

* fix(auth): missing-credential hints name the real env var or the OAuth login (#114405, #78996)

Both the auxiliary ladder (agent/auxiliary_client.py::_resolve_call_client) and main-agent
init (agent/agent_init.py::_routed_client_kwargs) told users to "Set the
<PROVIDER_ID>_API_KEY environment variable" when an explicit provider had no credentials.
Deriving the name from the id invents variables nothing reads: MINIMAX-OAUTH_API_KEY for
`minimax-oauth` (not even a valid shell name), ALIBABA_API_KEY where the registry reads
DASHSCOPE_API_KEY. agent_init already consulted PROVIDER_REGISTRY but fell back to the
invented name for OAuth providers, whose api_key_env_vars is deliberately empty.

One helper, agent/auxiliary_unavailable.py::missing_provider_credentials_message, now
builds the sentence for both surfaces from the registry: the first registered env var for
API-key providers, `hermes auth add <provider>` for OAuth providers, and only "switch
provider" for registry rows with neither (bedrock, vertex, external-process). The
compression permanent-failure classifier learns the new "no credentials were found" phrase
so an OAuth aux provider without a login still stops the retry loop.

Salvages #89517 (@liuhao1024, aux surface, earliest for #114405) and #79007 (@TUARAN,
main-init surface, #78996); supersedes #114410, #114430, #114582, #90222, #90281, #89541.

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* fix(tests): cover the 'no credentials were found' permanent-failure marker

An OAuth auxiliary provider with no login now raises 'no credentials were found'
(#114405 / #78996); the compressor must classify it as permanent instead of
retrying. Extend the existing missing-credential classifier test with that
wording so removing the marker from _SUMMARY_MISSING_CREDENTIAL_MARKERS goes red.

* fix(desktop): keep a Bot Chat report expanded after a teammate answers this bot's dispatch

In Bot Mode the assistant message that follows an inbound
"Message from 🤖 <bot>" row was always folded into a "Replied to <bot>"
notice. Seen from the bot that DISPATCHED (message_agent → teammate →
answer comes back as that inbound row), the next assistant message is
its report to the human, not a reply to the teammate — nothing is sent
through it — so the fold hid the substance of the turn behind a
disclosure the operator had no reason to open (#114629).

Narrow the collapse predicate instead of removing the compact-exchange parity
fold (#85884): skip the fold when the thread before the inbound row
holds a `message_agent` tool call from this bot whose target names the
inbound sender (handle or display name). Unsolicited deliveries — the
recipient side, whose reply the transport does relay back — keep the
existing collapsed rendering.

Fixes #114629

* fix(desktop): bound the dispatchedTo scan to the current exchange

The backward scan for a `message_agent` dispatch to the inbound sender ran
over the whole thread, so one dispatch to a teammate disabled the deliberate
"Replied to" fold (#85884) for every later unsolicited delivery from that
teammate for the rest of the session.

Stop the scan at the nearest earlier human user row, or at the previous
inbound "Message from" row signed by the same sender. One dispatch now
exempts only the answer that follows it.

Control test: dispatch to @Hermes, relayed answer, two ordinary turns, then
an unsolicited "Message from 🤖 Hermes" — the reply to it must fold again.

* fix(webhook): per-route toolsets bind to the authenticated route, not a split of chat_id (GHSA-2fmg-cjqm-hhrj)

toolsets_for_source recovered the route for the per-route toolsets grant by
splitting the session chat_id "webhook:{route}:{delivery_id}" on ":", while
authentication used the exact URL segment. A route named "build:external"
therefore resolved to route "build" and inherited its toolsets: a caller
holding the weak route's HMAC secret got the privileged sibling's terminal/
file tools. Reproduced on main through the real aiohttp handler with a
signed request.

Key the lookup on source.user_id instead, which _dispatch_agent_run already
stamps as exactly "webhook:{route_name}" from the authenticated segment.
No split at all: delivery_id is caller-supplied (X-GitHub-Delivery, svix-id,
X-Request-ID), so any parse of chat_id, including rsplit, stays attacker-
influenced. Routes without ":" resolve identically before and after; a ":"
route with no colliding sibling now gets the toolsets it configured, where
the old code silently fell back to the platform default.

Tests go through the HTTP handler, HMAC, and the gateway resolver: the ":"
route gets its own toolsets (red on base), and a crafted delivery id on the
privileged route cannot name another route (pins against a future rsplit).

Reported-by: pinarsadioglu (GHSA-2fmg-cjqm-hhrj)

* test(kanban): block-kind tests link the dependency before the child runs

Two salvage batches landed on main eight minutes apart: the block-kind tests
(b7e6acf4682, 66c9e980f81) drove a child to running and then linked a parent,
and b95513df7c4 made link_tasks refuse to gate a running child retroactively.
Main has been red on test_dependency_block_with_terminal_parents_parks_then_escalates
and test_dependency_block_with_open_parent_stays_parked_across_dispatch_tick
since (every PR CI run inherits the two failures).

Link while the child is still todo, then run it: the done-parent case claims
normally; the open-parent case forces status='running' the same way its own
loop already does (the reopened-parent shape, since claim rightly refuses a
gated child). Assertions untouched.

* chore: map contributor email for Diaspar4u

* feat(send): add WhatsApp native mentions

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* refactor(send): route WhatsApp mentions through the existing standalone chunker

Follow-up to the salvaged #92440 commit, shape-gate cleanup only; behaviour is unchanged
(one mention-bearing payload per logical send, captioned media keeps its caption).

- Fold `_send_whatsapp_with_mentions` into `_send_plugin_standalone` (it was a line-for-line
  copy of the caption split + `_send_chunks` loop); `mentions` is attached to the first
  payload only via a one-shot kwarg dict.
- Drop the `inspect.signature(sender)` probe: the only registered WhatsApp standalone sender
  is the in-tree `_standalone_send`, which gains `mentions` in the same change; a foreign
  sender already surfaces as a TypeError through `_handle_send`'s error path.
- Collapse `_normalize_outbound_mentions` to dedupe-only; its input is argparse `list[str]`
  already validated by the CLI.
- Revert the `\d` -> `[0-9]` edit to `_BARE_PHONE_RE` / `to_whatsapp_jid`: unrelated to the
  feature (`normalize_whatsapp_mention_jid` already rejects non-ASCII via `isascii()`) and it
  changed output for nine other `to_whatsapp_jid` callers.
- Split the single 137-line test into a `whatsapp_bridge` fixture + two invariants
  (rejections never reach the bridge; mentions ride the first payload only, stale bridge
  fails closed); drop the fabricated legacy-sender branch that only existed to cover the
  deleted probe. Mutation check: removing the first-payload gate turns the new test red.

* fix(gateway): scope out-of-turn compression dedup reset to the live session task

The gateway's hygiene compaction (generic sweep in run_turn.py and the codex
app-server variant in run.py) called _compress_context without a task_id, so
the read_file/skill_view dedup boundary reset ran under the "default" bucket
while the live turn records tool reads under the session row id — the task_id
the main turn hands to run_conversation. After a hygiene compaction pruned a
skill_view or read_file result, the next call for the same file returned an
"unchanged" stub pointing at content no longer in context (#98206).

Forward session_entry.session_id / session_id as task_id at both sites.
Manual /compress on the three surfaces was already fixed by b002dfc04d3c.

* fix(gateway): codex manual /compress resets the live session's read dedup too

Sibling site of the previous commit: _compress_codex_app_server_session passed
no task_id either, so a manual /compress on a codex_app_server session reset the
"default" bucket and left the live session's read_file dedup armed. Forward the
session row id; one parametrised test covers both codex entry points through
the real compress_context against the real read tracker.

* fix(gateway): an empty session id must not reset every task's read dedup

reset_file_dedup treats a falsy task_id as "all tasks"; mirror the existing
`or "default"` guard from the hermes-mode /compress site at the three forwarded
sites, and shrink the run_turn comment to the one non-obvious fact.

* chore(contributors): map yaozhen's commit email (salvage #95975)

* fix(skills): the background-review fork never receives a skill_view dedup stub

The review fork reuses the parent's session/task id for prefix-cache parity, so
its skill_view calls hit the parent's repeat-view dedup and got a
content_returned:false stub. The stub path never calls
mark_background_review_skill_read, so every skill_manage patch/write_file in
the fork was refused by the read-before-write guard: 408 refusals and zero
skill updates in one deployment, the same signature on three more (#95976).

A dedup stub is only valid while the referenced content is in the caller's own
context; the fork's context is not the parent's. Skip the dedup entirely when
is_background_review(): the fork's view is a real read (which marks the file
for the guard) and records nothing, so the parent's cache is untouched.

Salvaged from #95975 (@yaozhen), rebased onto the decomposed skills_tool and
narrowed from a namespaced bucket to no dedup in the fork.

* chore(tests): utf-8 encoding on the skill_view dedup fixture writes (windows-footgun lane)

* fix(tools): read_file's dedup stub skips the review fork too

Sibling of the previous commit: read_file_tool returned the unchanged-stub
before _record_read, and only _record_read calls
mark_background_review_skill_read. A skill file the parent had already read
left the fork with a stub and a refused skill_manage write. Same rule as
skill_view: no dedup stub when is_background_review().

Also: is_background_review hoisted to module level in skills_tool (no cycle —
skill_provenance imports only contextvars), comment reworded to the two real
reasons, test renamed to the shipped design, fixture seeds a fresh read-mark
store so the mark cannot leak between tests.

* fix(gateway): disarm the startup watchdog when `gateway run` hands off to s6

`docker run <image> gateway run` arms the OOF-298 startup-liveness
watchdog in hermes_cli.main's argv fast-path (argv literally carries the
adjacent `gateway run` tokens), then `_maybe_redirect_run_to_s6_supervision`
hands the real gateway to s6 and keeps the CMD process alive as a
heartbeat. That process never reaches a GatewayRunner, so the disarm site
in `GatewayRunner.start()` is unreachable for it.

On the `os.execvp("sleep", ...)` path the image swap takes the watchdog
thread with it, so the leak is invisible. On the #36208 fallback it is
fatal: `_block_until_terminated()` parks on `signal.pause()` with ~zero
CPU and no progress lease — the exact parked-deadlock signature — so the
watchdog fires on schedule and `os._exit(75)`s the container's main
process. /init tears the container down every deadline while the
supervised gateway underneath is healthy, and the forensic record blames
a startup that finished minutes earlier.

Disarm at the handoff, before either heartbeat: once s6 owns the gateway,
this process has no pre-loop window left to cover.

(cherry picked from commit 502a501791cffa198deaf9e6b748ebdf8de3ae75)

* test(gateway): pin the s6 handoff as a startup-watchdog disarm point

Arms the real watchdog the way the argv fast-path does, then drives
`_maybe_redirect_run_to_s6_supervision` down both heartbeats and asserts
the handle's state at the moment each one takes over — the parked
`_block_until_terminated()` fallback is the one that would otherwise be
hard-exited with 75, so it also asserts the singleton is cleared and the
timer thread actually stands down.

Both fail on the unfixed handoff.

(cherry picked from commit 30a4e4ef8c9867890885d5630d0244a9a40fc665)

* test(gateway): trim the s6 handoff watchdog tests to the two invariants

The exec-path test only re-checked the same disarm call the parking test
already pins; the invariant the fix must not break is the opposite one:
outside s6 the redirect returns False with the watchdog still armed, so
GatewayRunner's own disarm keeps governing the in-process boot. Replace
it with that test and share the missing-sleep stub with the #36208 test.

* fix: derive agent_context from platform for memory provider context-skip

agent_context was hardcoded to "primary" in init_agent(), making the
provider context-skip logic (cron/flush/subagent) dead code. Memory
providers like supermemory and honcho check agent_context to decide
whether to skip writing to memory for cron/flush/subagent sessions.

Derive agent_context from the platform parameter: "cron" for cron jobs,
"subagent" for subagent sessions, "primary" otherwise.

Fixes #80646

* chore(contributors): map Tranquil-Flow's noreply email (#107045)

* test(agent): pin agent_context derivation and the supermemory cron write-off (#80646)

Two invariants, both red on the hardcoded "primary" base: the scheduler's and
delegate_task's platforms map to their own context while interactive surfaces stay
primary, and the real bundled supermemory provider switches writes off for a cron
session's kwargs. Distilled from the regression file in #107045.

* docs(memory-provider): agent_context carries cron/subagent, not always primary

* chore(contributors): map Danielmuzology for the #81957 salvage

* fix(desktop): stream voice replies from live message deltas

* fix(desktop): wake voice loop from stable reply edge

* perf(desktop): test the pending reply's parts in place instead of joining the transcript per flush

The wake edge recomputes on every streamed flush (~30/s); joining the whole
reply into a string only to check it is non-blank allocated the transcript
each time. A short-circuiting scan of the text parts keeps the contract
(wake once the first non-blank text exists) with no allocation.

* fix(acp): preserve session MCP toolsets across model switches

* test(acp): pin that a model switch keeps the session's MCP toolsets (#42719)

Two invariants, both red on the base: _switch_model hands the live agent's
enabled/disabled toolsets to the rebuild, and _make_agent keeps passed
toolsets verbatim while a fresh session still derives them from config.
Distilled from the regression tests carried in #75722 and #104474.

* chore(contributors): map fluxkapacitor for the #95833 salvage

* fix(desktop): route message.react through the session's owner, not the ambient gateway

The reactions store dialed activeGateway() directly, so a reaction on a
secondary-profile session (or any session whose owner differs from the
foregrounded profile/connection — Bot-Mode tiles, post-reconnect
rehydration) hit a backend that never held the runtime and answered
4040 "message not found" even though the row existed in the owning
profile's state DB.

Route through requestForOwnedSession (tile route → owner hint →
connection-tagged row ladder, fail-closed), the same dispatcher every
other session-scoped RPC uses. The bound ambient request stays as the
legacy single-profile fallback, preserving the asserted call shape.
Diagnosed independently by emanogilbert-hash on #80670.

Refs #80670.

* fix(state): deliver unseen reactions from visible compacted history

* fix(state): reactions resolve rows across the compression lineage, not the tip alone

A display resume materializes the whole compression lineage with row ids
(`get_resume_conversations(include_ancestors=True)`), so the desktop shows —
and lets the user react to — rows that live in an ended parent segment. The
gateway's `session_key` is re-anchored to the continuation after every
compaction, and `set_message_reaction` scoped the row by that exact key, so
every reaction on a pre-compaction message returned None and the desktop
surfaced RPC 4040 "message not found in this session" (#80670: the 802
compacted-row repro; the agent-side `react_to_message` tool hit the same
wall in #108633).

`set_message_reaction` / `get_message_reactions` / `take_unseen_reactions`
now scope by `_resume_lineage_ids(session_id)` — the same set the resume
loads, so an explicit /branch copy still owns only its own rows and an
unrelated session's row stays foreign. The RPC handler and the tool are
unchanged: ownership is decided once, at the row.

Lineage ownership was first identified in #108635 by @KoNit-K (tool path);
the compacted-row half of the unseen-reaction scan is @Liuzikaii's #108542,
cherry-picked ahead of this commit.

* refactor(state): one visibility clause for every reaction path; SQL-side reaction prefilter

set/get used only the lineage filter while take_unseen also required
(active = 1 OR compacted = 1), so a rewound row could be reacted to but never
announced; _DISPLAY_META_ROW_SQL now carries the shared _DISPLAY_ACTIVE_CLAUSE.
take_unseen_reactions scans the whole lineage each turn, so it now filters on
json_extract(display_metadata, '$.reactions') in SQL instead of decoding every
metadata-bearing row in Python. Tests share the compacted-lineage fixture.

* fix(agent): preserve scaled codex ttfb timeout

* chore: map jwilson411 contributor email for the #104339 tests

* test(agent): large codex requests keep the scaled TTFB cutoff; an explicit cap still binds

Regression pair for the scale-then-recap contradiction: with no TTFB overrides a
>100K-token openai-codex request keeps the 180s no-event cutoff, and an explicit
HERMES_CODEX_TTFB_MAX_SECONDS still bounds it. Taken from PR #104339 (the same
fix proposed with a 180s default cap); the fix itself lands as the earlier #91635.

* docs(agent): TTFB cap is opt-in — say so where operators read it

Docstring tunables line, the cap comment and its log hint still described a
120s default ceiling. The large-request test pins reasoning off so the effort
floor cannot mask a cap regression.

* test(agent): codex TTFB fixture starts from a clean HERMES_CODEX_TTFB_* env

The #64507 test already assumed 'no override' without clearing the shell; fold
the delenv into _make_codex_agent (as the reasoning-effort sibling does) and
drop the per-test helper. The explicit-cap test pins reasoning off too, so the
effort floor can never mask a cap regression.

* fix(desktop): clamp restored window bounds to work area

* style(desktop): restore EOF newlines and blank-line padding in window-state

Follow-up to the salvaged clamp commit: put back the trailing newlines it
stripped from window-state.ts / window-state.test.ts and add the
padding-line-between-statements blank lines eslint asks for in the new
matchingWorkArea hunks. No behaviour change.

* refactor(desktop): drop the onScreen shim; tests read matchingWorkArea directly

computeWindowOptions calls matchingWorkArea itself, so onScreen was a one-line
wrapper kept only for two tests. Retarget them at the real helper.

* fix(desktop): clamp cascaded instance windows to the work area they land on

instanceWindowBounds added +32/+32 to the live source window unclamped, so a
source docked at the bottom/right edge produced a rect past the screen — the
same off-screen CreateWindow rect this PR fixes for the saved-state path. Run
the cascaded rect through computeWindowOptions with the live displays; with no
matching display the raw cascade is kept.

* feat(gateway): read a registered Windows Scheduled Task back as namespace-agnostic XML leaves

Port of the inspection half of #113674: `_query_scheduled_task_xml` fetches
`schtasks /Query /TN <task> /XML` and fails open (None) when the task cannot be
inspected; `_task_xml_leaf_values` flattens the export into a leaf-path -> text map
independent of the Task Scheduler namespace, plus the root `version` attribute.

The launcher change and the full-leaf reconcile from #113674 are deliberately not
ported (see the PR body); these two helpers feed a status-time drift report instead.

* feat(gateway): `hermes gateway status` reports Windows Scheduled Task registration drift

A task registered before the hardened template (433db17c0a8) keeps its old XML
forever: `_install_scheduled_task` has one prompted caller and the update flow
only rewrites the launchers. `status` now fetches the registered task's XML and
compares an allowlist of template leaves — Task `version`, `<RestartOnFailure>`,
LogonTrigger `<Delay>`, Exec `<Arguments>` — and prints

  ⚠ Scheduled Task registration predates the current template (missing: ...)
    Repair: hermes gateway install

Report only: no automatic re-registration, no launcher change, silent when
schtasks cannot be queried. The allowlist deliberately excludes <UserId>
(exported as a SID, written as DOMAIN\user) so a healthy task is never flagged.

Docs: Windows service section stating that <RestartOnFailure> only covers the
launcher because the .vbs exits immediately by design, and that auto-restart
relies on the in-process restart path.

Fixes #113670

* fix: re-register a drifted Windows gateway Scheduled Task from start and update

`hermes gateway status` (previous commit) only reported that a registered task predates
the current XML template; nothing rewrote it, so RestartOnFailure / the logon Delay only
ever reached fresh installs (#113670). Mirror gateway.py::refresh_systemd_unit_if_needed:
`reconcile_scheduled_task` runs the same allowlist compare and, on drift, delete+creates the
task from the current template. Called from the Windows `start()` path and from the
`hermes update` launcher refresh (`_refresh_windows_gateway_launchers`). A refused
re-register (Access Denied) prints the detail and points at the elevating
`hermes gateway install`.

RestartOnFailure remaining unreachable through the non-waiting wscript launcher is the
deliberate design of 433db17c0a8d (#45610) and stays a documented note.

* fix(doctor): flag a non-list custom_providers and legacy list entries with no providers: twin; name the edited profile on Custom Endpoints / Local Models

`hermes doctor` (and the startup config-structure warning) now report a
`custom_providers` value that is not a YAML list — naming the key and the
received type — instead of the runtime silently serving "0 endpoints".
Doctor also warns about every legacy `custom_providers` list entry whose
endpoint URL has no `providers:` twin, with the exact move to make: such an
entry is served by the chat picker (dual-read view) but has no row on the
Custom Endpoints settings page, and the one-shot v11→v12 list migration
(config_migrations._migrate_to_12) never re-fires once the version is past 12.
Warn-only on purpose: re-running the migration would mint `<key>-N`
duplicates for entries that DO have a twin.

Desktop: Custom Endpoints and Local Models send unscoped requests and always
edit the app's active profile; they now print the same "Changes on this page
apply to the “X” profile." note the Model page uses (hidden with one profile).

Part of #114471 (items 2, 5, 6).

* fix(desktop): mock the profile-store hermes exports in local-models-settings test

The Local Models page now imports the settings-scope chip, which pulls in
src/store/profile.ts; that module subscribes $activeGatewayProfile ->
setApiRequestProfile at load, so the test module failed with "No
"setApiRequestProfile" export is defined on the @/hermes mock". Add the
two exports the profile store reads, as the store tests already do.

* fix(web): list, activate and delete legacy custom_providers entries on Custom Endpoints

GET /api/providers/custom-endpoints read only providers:, so a post-migration
custom_providers: list entry (still routed by get_compatible_custom_providers)
had no row and could be deleted nowhere. Build the legacy rows from that same
merged view (source "custom_providers"; entries from providers: carry a
provider_key, legacy ones do not). DELETE removes the matching list entry
when the id is not under providers:; activate promotes the entry to
providers.<key> first, since the main slot names providers by key.

The doctor residue check keeps firing but no longer claims the row is missing;
its rationale, the docs line and the non-list message now talk about the
retired list store ("legacy custom_providers entries are ignored until it is").

* fix(desktop): name the session in blocking-prompt OS notifications

Three sessions parked on approvals raised three identical "Approval needed"
toasts with no way to tell them apart (#114337), even though the runtime
session id was already passed to the same call. The shared dispatch in
store/native-notifications.ts now resolves that id to the session name
(title, else preview, else a short id tail) and appends it to approval /
input titles: "Approval needed — Fix the flaky test". Every emitter of the
blocking-prompt family routes through it, so the approval toast and the
sibling input.request one both get the label from one place.

Session-scoped attention kinds only: completions stay as they are.

* fix(desktop): localize the session-named prompt title; trim to two invariants

Follow-up to the salvaged #114383 commit: the "<title> — <session>" template
moves out of the dispatcher into the locale bundles as
`notifications.native.approvalTitleNamed` / `inputTitleNamed` (types.ts + all
six locales), so translators own the separator and word order. The
dispatcher picks the key by kind (approval / input) and keeps the caller's
bare title for prompts without a session. Naming order matches the sidebar:
title → preview → short id tail.

Tests trimmed to two invariants: the handler-level approval toast in
server-requests.test.ts and one dispatcher test covering the sibling input
toast, the id-tail fallback and the untouched completion title.

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* fix(desktop): keep the message reaction picker open while the pointer moves toward it (#114130)

Clicking the reaction button on an assistant message opened the picker,
but the very next pointer movement over the transcript closed it, so no
emoji could ever be chosen. The group-hover / PopoverAnchor mechanism in
the report is not the cause: the anchor is already kept live while open
(styles.css `[data-state='open']`) and Radix does not close on a hidden
anchor. The picker died to the floating composer's focus-follow: Radix
autofocuses the popover content when it opens, `trackPointer` pulled
that focus back into the pane composer on `pointermove`, and the
popover's `onFocusOutside` dismissed it.

Guard `focusSelectedComposer()` — the chokepoint every focus-follow
branch funnels through — against focus that sits inside an open floating
layer (popover, menu, listbox, dialog, popper wrapper). The selector is
the one `composer-focus-keys` already uses for its overlay gate, hoisted
to the leaf `combo.ts` as `OVERLAY_SURFACE` so both consumers share it.

Tests: focus-follow leaves focus inside a floating layer (with the
plain-control control case), and the assistant reaction picker survives
a pointermove over its message with a registered floating composer. Both
red on origin/main.

* refactor(desktop): read OVERLAY_SURFACE directly in composer-focus-keys

The hoist into combo.ts left a BLOCKING_OVERLAY alias behind for its single
use site; drop the alias.

* fix(desktop): never register a turn lease that nothing can release

A routed prompt holds one lease per (route, runtime session) until the turn settles, and for a
streaming turn only a Secondary's own terminal-event listener ends it: releaseTerminalTurnLease
invokes `g.turnLeases.get(key)?.()`, so a lease that is not the mapped one is never called at all.
Two ways a hold ends up in that state, both closed here.

The function already skips the primary profile, and its comment says why: a no-op lease leaves a
phantom key that suppresses the real hold if the route is later re-homed as a secondary. But the
primary profile is not the only route served by the primary socket. retainGatewayForAgent returns a
no-op for a shared-remote collapse and for a build with no registry dialing, and gatewayForProfile
returns one for a shared-primary route; none of them creates a Secondary. A lease registered on any
of those is stored and can never be released — and because the map is keyed per session, it silently
suppresses every later hold on that session, including after the route becomes a real pooled
secondary. The shared-remote probe explicitly expects that transition: it prefers the primary "until
a later probe can prove isolation". The next turn then runs with no hold at all, so the socket is
free to be reaped mid-turn and the gateway interrupts the turn as client_gone, which is the failure
this mechanism exists to prevent.

The duplicate-lease guard is also a check-then-act: it runs before the retain awaits and the map is
written after it, so two submits for one (route, session) can both pass. The loser's hold is then
orphaned — its release is never the mapped one, so activeRequests stays above zero and the pooled
socket can never be reclaimed.

Both are decided by outcome rather than by re-probing: no pooled entry for the scope means nothing
can release the key, and a key already present means someone else owns the turn. Either way the
route is released and the caller gets a no-op.

These are the function's first tests. One takes a lease while the route rides the primary, leaves it
unreleased as a streaming turn would, then makes registry dialing available and asserts the next
turn really holds a socket. The other races two submits across the dial, fires the terminal event
the gateway's own listener would, and asserts the socket is then reclaimable. Each fails without its
own guard.

* test(desktop): move the turn-lease tests to the end of the lifecycle file

Keeps the block off the shared anchor after afterEach that the sibling
prune-redial fix also extends, so the two PRs merge independently.

* fix(kanban): report failed auto-heartbeats

* fix(kanban): warn once when an inherited delegation fence rejects the worker's auto-heartbeat

A worker process that carries HERMES_DELEGATED_CHILD_CONTEXT next to its
HERMES_KANBAN_TASK is fenced by kanban_path_is_fenced's env-marker branch: both
auto-heartbeat writes raised PermissionError at DEBUG only, so the board showed a
worker that never beats while the process was alive (the salvaged commit already
made the return value honest, but _touch_activity ignores it). Log the refusal once
per process at WARNING with the cause, and skip the bridge for an in-process
delegate child BEFORE stamping the rate-limit window so a chatty child cannot starve
the worker's own heartbeat.

No self-write grant is added: the marker + TASK combination means "descendant, not
worker" by design (b578261584e, 8a8c3634e8d), and the only in-tree grant path,
kanban_db_dispatch._default_spawn, already pops the marker. The real-spawn grant
test now proves that from a dispatcher that itself carries the marker: the worker's
auto-heartbeat lands and its handoff completes.

Docs: worker guide notes the automatic claim extension and what the refusal warning
means.

* fix(kanban): fence-warned flag reset must not mask the heartbeat assertion

`monkeypatch.setattr(kanban_tools, "_auto_heartbeat_fence_warned", False)` raised
AttributeError against a module without the flag, so a regression that dropped the
warn-once flag failed on the attribute probe instead of the user-visible symptom
(`heartbeat_current_worker_from_env()` returning True). `raising=False` lets the
symptom assertion bite (main's kanban_tools.py: AssertionError `assert True is False`).

* fix(cron): order status next run by actual instant

* fix(cli): flag overdue next_run_at and stale ticker in cron status

When the scheduler host dies, a job's next_run_at is stranded in the
past and `hermes cron status` still printed it as an upcoming
"Next run", hiding the outage (#114309): the report's only signal was
the gateway line, while the schedule line kept presenting a 7h-old
timestamp as future.

- _print_active_jobs_summary: when the earliest next_run_at already
  passed, print a loud OVERDUE line (age + scheduler question) instead
  of a bare "Next run: <past ts>"; future timestamps render unchanged.
- cron_status gateway-down branch: when ticker_heartbeat is stale,
  print when the scheduler last ticked so the frozen state is
  first-class visible.

Fixes #114309

* fix(cli): share the doctor's overdue grace in cron status

Address review feedback: `cron doctor` tolerates a 15-minute grace
window (_OVERDUE_GRACE_SECONDS) before calling a next_run_at overdue,
but the new status OVERDUE line fired on any `scheduled < now`, so a
job a few minutes behind the ticker's own cadence could flash OVERDUE
while doctor still called the same job healthy.

- Gate the status OVERDUE line on the same _OVERDUE_GRACE_SECONDS so
  status, list, and doctor tell one consistent story.
- Reuse _next_run_overdue_seconds inside _next_run_overdue_issue,
  dropping the duplicated timestamp parsing.
- Add a regression test: a next_run_at 5 minutes in the past stays a
  plain 'Next run' line.

* fix(cron): label overdue next runs in cron list, dashboard and Desktop; one parser for the instant

`hermes cron list`, the web dashboard Cron page and the Desktop cron panel/sidebar all
rendered a `next_run_at` parked hours in the past as an ordinary upcoming "Next run" —
the only user-visible trace of a scheduler that stopped ticking (#114309). Every
surface now labels a slot past `cron doctor`'s 15-minute grace as overdue (CLI
`Overdue:` row with the lateness, web `Overdue since`, Desktop `Overdue since` label
on the detail panel and sidebar meta) while paused/disabled/completed jobs keep the
plain label because they are not expected to fire.

The CLI's overdue check now parses through `cron.jobs._parse_aware` and `hermes_time.now`
so status/list/doctor and the ticker agree on the instant (mixed offsets, DST folds,
legacy naive stamps read as system-local like the scheduler does), and both the
ordering and the subtraction normalise to UTC: Python compares same-tzinfo datetimes by
wall clock, which is wrong across a DST fold. Status still orders the soonest run by
instant (#113874) and prints the stored stamp.

Tests: the salvaged status tests are trimmed to two invariants (overdue + stale
heartbeat is loud on status AND list; within-grace stays plain on both), the DST-fold
ordering tests freeze the CLI clock as well so their 2026-11 fixtures never start
reading as overdue, and one vitest each pins the web and Desktop helpers.

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* fix(desktop): label an overdue next run on the Bot Mode routine card

The hermes-bots plugin's Routines card (and its inspector's `Next run` row)
still read `Next: 7 hr. ago` for a `next_run_at` parked past the scheduler
grace — the one Desktop surface the overdue labelling left out (#114309).
The card now switches to `t.cron.overdueSince` and the inspector row to
`Overdue since`, using the same `nextRunOverdueMs` decision as the core cron
panel and sidebar, so paused/completed/disabled jobs keep the plain label.

`nextRunOverdueMs` is exported through `@hermes/plugin-sdk` (the plugin only
imports from the SDK) and its parameter is widened to the optional-field shape
the plugin's `RoutineJob` carries; no plugin i18n key is needed because the
card already renders from core `t.cron`, which every locale resolves.

Test: one card test renders an overdue vs an upcoming job and checks both the
card label and the inspector rows; the fixture's fixed 2026-08-23 next_run_at
is made clock-relative so it never ages into "overdue" on its own.

* fix(cli): label an overdue next run in the in-chat /cron and /cron list

The slash handler behind the classic CLI's and the TUI's `/cron` overview and
`/cron list` still printed the stored `next_run_at` verbatim as `Next:` /
`Next run:`, so a stamp parked seven hours in the past read as an upcoming run —
the exact symptom of #114309 on the one CLI surface the branch had left out.
Both rows now go through `hermes_cli.cron._next_run_row`, the same decision
`hermes cron list` makes: past the doctor grace on an enabled, non-paused job the
row becomes `Overdue: <stamp> (7h ago — the job has not fired; is the scheduler
running?)`, while paused/disabled/completed jobs keep the plain label because they
are not expected to fire.

Test: one slash-handler test parks two jobs 7h in the past, pauses one, and checks
that `/cron` and `/cron list --all` flag exactly the enabled one.

* fix(dashboard): say when the scheduler last ticked on the Cron page

#114309 expects the dashboard, like `hermes cron status`, to say "scheduler last
ticked X hours ago" when a stopped ticker leaves next runs stranded in the past.
The Cron page only had the per-row `Overdue since` label and no way to date the
outage: GET /api/cron/jobs carried nothing about the ticker.

Every job the dashboard cron endpoints return now carries
`scheduler_heartbeat_age_s` — its own profile's ticker heartbeat age read inside
the same store scope as the job list (None when it cannot be dated) — and the Cron
page renders "Scheduler last ticked 7h ago — jobs that came due since then have not
fired" above the list when the oldest heartbeat among jobs expected to fire is
past the CLI's STALE_AFTER threshold (three missed 60s iterations plus slack).
Paused, disabled and completed jobs never raise the banner, matching the overdue
label's rule. The field is additive, so the response shape and every existing
consumer are unchanged.

Tests: one router test lists two profiles with one stale heartbeat file and checks
each job reports its own age (None for the profile without a heartbeat); one vitest
pins the stale-age selection and the relative label.

* fix(update): clear fleet restart warning for multiplexers

* refactor(update): one coverage helper for both pending-restart predicates

`_live_fleet_covers_receipt` and `_marker_only_restart_obsolete` each looped the fleet
twice to fold `served_profiles` into the covered identities and re-validated a shape
`_fleet_row` already enforces. One `_fleet_covered_gateways(fleet)` answers the
`(kind, profile)` set (or None for an unidentified row) for both.

* fix(update): `hermes gateway restart` onto a moved checkout clears the startup hint

`_update_owes_fleet_restart` held a receipt whose restart phase completed to exactly
`post_update.sha`. A gateway restarted afterwards onto a checkout moved by hand runs code
NEWER than the update pulled, so the remedy the warning itself names (`hermes gateway
restart`) could not clear it until the next `hermes update` wrote a fresh receipt
(#113350 steps 3-4). A completed update is discharged when every owed gateway serves the
code it pulled OR today's checkout; the catch-up predicate `hermes update` runs is
unchanged.

* docs(update): a multiplexer covers every served profile in the fleet check

Explain that the matrix shows one row per gateway process, that `served_profiles`
carries coverage for the satellites, and that `hermes gateway restart` now clears the
pending-restart hint on such a fleet.

* test(update): multiplexer-coverage marker test writes the inventory main's marker now owns

Since the fleet-restart-pending marker carries its own runtime inventory on main (a marker
without one stays fail-closed), the #113350 multiplexer test must record the two owed
gateways in the marker it writes, matching its sibling test_startup_warn_discharged_when_fleet_current.

* fix(mcp): propagate an extended connect_timeout into config for OAuth probes

_probe_single_server's `connect_timeout` override (e.g. hermes mcp login's
315s, given so a user has time to finish a browser OAuth flow) only bounded
the outer asyncio.wait_for(_connect_server(...)). The deep transport code
(_negotiate_session) reads its own session.initialize() bound straight from
config["connect_timeout"], which was left at the unrelated 60s default. Any
OAuth login taking longer than a minute got its still-pending callback wait
cancelled mid-flow, then retried — reopening a second authorization against
the same still-tearing-down callback port ("port already in use").

Related #103633.

* fix(mcp): send a User-Agent on SDK-built OAuth discovery/registration requests

The MCP SDK builds /.well-known discovery and dynamic client registration
requests as bare httpx.Request objects inside async_auth_flow, so the
client's default headers never apply and they leave with no User-Agent at
all. Some WAFs reject header-less requests outright: coda.io returns 403
on every discovery and registration call, which Hermes then misreports as
"'<server>' only allows pre-approved OAuth clients". The existing
oauth.user_agent option does not help because it is stamped only on
token-endpoint requests.

HermesMCPOAuthProvider's generator bridge now gives SDK-built requests a
default User-Agent ("Hermes-Agent") when the header is absent. The
caller's own MCP request is never touched, and an explicitly configured
oauth.user_agent on token requests still wins.

Reproduced against https://coda.io/apis/mcp: before, every well-known
and /register call returned 403; after, registration returns 200 and the
browser authorization flow proceeds.

Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>

* fix(mcp): OAuth discovery/registration carry a User-Agent; cancelled login frees its callback port

Widen the salvaged fixes to the whole class and add the pieces they missed:

- The default User-Agent for SDK-built OAuth requests moves from the manager's
  bridge into HermesProviderMixin.async_auth_flow, so the legacy build_oauth_auth
  provider gets it too, and the manager's pre-flight metadata discovery (its own
  client.send of a bare Request) stamps it as well. Why: the SDK sends discovery,
  registration and token requests through client.send(), which never merges the
  client's default headers; www.tradingview.com's WAF answers a header-less GET
  with 403 while curl gets 200, so metadata looked unreadable, the SDK guessed
  /register and /authorize on the MCP host, and the login died with
  "Registration failed: 404" (or, with a pre-registered client, "iss mismatch:
  ... != None" because no issuer was ever discovered).

- The callback listener now runs serve_forever() and is shut down before
  server_close(). A thread parked in handle_request()'s select() keeps the
  closed listening socket alive (the kernel holds the file for the duration
  of the poll), so a flow cancelled mid-wait left the port bound and the
  retry on the same pinned/cached port raised "OAuth callback port N is
  already in use" with no external collider.

- When every authorization-server metadata fetch failed, a registration error
  is re-raised leading with those statuses ("Could not read
  authorization-server metadata (403 from ...); dynamic client registration
  then fell back to a guessed endpoint on the MCP host and failed: ...").
  humanize_oauth_registration_error leaves that message alone so the 403 in
  it is not mistaken for a DCR allowlist refusal.

Docs: mcp-config-reference notes the discovery/registration User-Agent and
the new error lead.

* chore: map contributor email for Ivyleaguelawyer

Attribution mapping for the salvaged #93095 commit.

* fix(mcp): pin the pre-flight discovery User-Agent in a test; drop the unfailing version import guard

Review follow-up: swapping tools/mcp_oauth_manager.py back to origin/main kept every
PR test green, so the pre-flight PRM/ASM discovery stamp had no invariant. The existing
prefetch test now records the User-Agent of each mocked discovery request and asserts
it is DEFAULT_AUTH_REQUEST_USER_AGENT (red without the stamp, green with it).

hermes_cli/__init__.py is stdlib-only and defines __version__ at module top, so the
try/except around its import could never fire; import directly.

* fix(kanban): book a dead worker the same way whichever process notices it

The dead-worker sweep learned a worker's exit status only from
``_recent_worker_exits``, which ``reap_worker_zombies`` fills via
``os.waitpid`` — so only the process that spawned the worker ever knows
how it exited. With ``kanban.dispatch_in_gateway: false`` every
``hermes kanban dispatch`` tick is a fresh process, the registry is
empty, and a worker that exited rc=0 without a terminal board call was
booked as a bare ``crashed`` / ``pid N not alive``: no
``protocol_violation`` marker, no corrective error text for the retry
worker, no violation streak — and a rc=75 quota wall was counted as a
failure instead of a neutral ``rate_limited`` requeue.

A Kanban worker (``HERMES_KANBAN_TASK`` set) now writes
``[kanban-worker-exit] rc=<code>`` as the last line of its own log on
every one-shot exit path; when the registry has no entry for a dead PID
the sweep reads that trailer and books the exit through the same
code -> kind mapping. A worker killed before its exit epilogue leaves no
trailer and stays a plain crash. ``_worker_final_output`` strips the
trailer so it never leaks into the board diagnostic.

Direction (a durable, process-independent witness in the worker log)
from PR #113638; its predicate keyed on the ``Resume this session with:``
summary, which the CLI prints before ``sys.exit`` for rc 0, 1, 75 and 130
alike and so would have booked quota walls and failed turns as protocol
violations.

Co-authored-by: kokhlo <konstantin.khlopkov93@gmail.com>

* fix(kanban): a breaker trip is not promoted back to ready in the same tick

``_account_crashes`` trips the protocol-violation budget with
``force_trip`` after three consecutive clean exits, but the task's
``consecutive_failures`` is still 1 — so ``recompute_ready``, which
re-derives the threshold from its caller's ``failure_limit`` (default 2),
promoted the just-blocked card straight back to ``ready`` in the same
tick: ``protocol_violation -> gave_up -> promoted -> claimed`` forever
whenever ``failure_limit`` exceeds the violation count (the systemic
same-error trip at limit 1 had the same hole).

``_has_sticky_block`` now also honours the breaker's own verdict: the
newest ``gave_up`` since the last ``unblocked`` holds the card when it
recorded a violation-streak trip or ``failures >= effective_limit``.
``hermes kanban unblock`` remains the release path and still grants a
fresh budget. Tests cover the fresh-process classification (rc=0 and
rc=75), the held trip + operator unblock, and the trailer emission gate.

* fix(kanban): only a breaker trip stamped sticky holds the card past recompute_ready

_has_sticky_block held on 'effective_limit in verdict and failures >= effective_limit',
which is true for every plain unified-budget trip (_record_task_failure only trips when
failures >= effective_limit). That made every breaker trip operator-only and regressed two
recovery paths main relies on: raising the dispatcher failure_limit past the counter
(#35072) and assign_task to a fresh profile (counter reset by design).

_record_task_failure now stamps 'sticky': true on the gave_up payload only for force_trip
(the clean-exit protocol-violation budget) and _account_crashes adds it for the systemic
same-error trip at limit 1; _has_sticky_block reads that marker and nothing else. A plain
gave_up carries no marker and is judged by the counter as before.

The fresh-process sweep test also pins that the decoded rc lands in the run row metadata
(exit_code), so quota (75) vs crash stays tellable after the fact even though the
worker_output tail is trimmed (#113611 related observation).

* fix(mcp): name the HTTP status, URL and body behind "Server returned an error response"

mcp >= 2.0's Streamable HTTP client folds any non-2xx whose body it cannot parse
as a JSON-RPC error into the opaque `-32603 Server returned an error response`.
Hermes printed that text verbatim in the SSE-fallback warning and in the
"both transports failed" ConnectionError, so users saw no status, no URL and
none of the server's own words (e.g. `400 {"code":-32020,"message":"Unsupported
MCP-Protocol-Version"}`) and had to reach for curl to learn what the server
actually said (#114350, #113359).

- `_make_http_rejection_recorder`: response hook on the owned SDK-httpx client
  that remembers the last 4xx/5xx (status, method, URL, head of the body; SSE
  bodies are never read). Sibling of the redirect-header stripper hook.
- `_describe_http_failure`: appends that detail only when the root cause is
  the SDK's opaque -32603 text, so a real JSON-RPC error or an httpx status
  error is never duplicated.
- `_run_http`: the fallback warning and both raise paths (both-transports
  ConnectionError; the no-fallback re-raise after a proven session, strict
  redirect headers or a non-rejection) carry the detail. Debug-logs the
  endpoint each connect attempt uses.
- Docs: troubleshooting entry for reading the new message.

Verified live against a real Streamable HTTP server (`hermes mcp test`, temp
HERMES_HOME): base prints `Streamable HTTP: Server returned an error response`;
fixed head prints `... (HTTP 400 from POST http://127.0.0.1:PORT/mcp:
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":null,"error":{"code":-32020,...}})`. Control: a 400
served as application/json already surfaces the JSON-RPC message and gets no
appendix; servers negotiating `initialize` down to 2025-06-18 (fixture and a
real FastMCP on mcp 1.12.4) connect and list tools on base and fix alike — the
pinned mcp 2.0.0 stamps the negotiated version on every post-handshake request
(wire-recorded), so the sticky seed in `_run_http` is not the cause of the
reported 400 and stays as designed (#14816).

Co-authored-by: JoaoMarcos44 <joaomarcosdias444@gmail.com>

* fix(mcp): complete the handshake when a stateless server names a modern protocolVersion and lacks server/discover

A server that answers the legacy initialize with HTTP 200 but reports
2026-07-28 (regardless of the version offered) makes the SDK raise
'Unsupported protocol version from the server'. auto mode then falls back
to server/discover, which such a server rejects with a non-JSON 4xx, and
the connect died with 'both Streamable HTTP and SSE transports failed
(Streamable HTTP: Server returned an error response; SSE: 405)' even
though the same initialize/tools/list POSTs succeed from curl (#113359).

When both fail for that reason, re-run initialize ourselves, adopt the
result pinned to the version we offered (keeps later requests
legacy-shaped, which the handshake just proved the server accepts), send
notifications/initialized and proceed to tools/list.

* fix(cron): block taskkill gateway interpreter

(cherry picked from commit 72f033c5823af00176c3b730b8e8502ad9b2b772)

* fix(security): gateway lifecycle guard recognises Windows command spellings

The guard that stops a supervised gateway from restarting, stopping or
uninstalling itself only knew POSIX spellings of those commands, so the
Windows spellings of the very same operations walked straight past it.

Branch A anchored on the bare CLI name, but on Windows the CLI is spelled
with an executable suffix, and npm-style shims install `hermes.cmd` and
`hermes.ps1` beside the `hermes.exe`. Every one of these was allowed
while the unsuffixed form was blocked:

    hermes.exe gateway restart      -> ALLOWED (now blocked)
    hermes.cmd gateway stop         -> ALLOWED (now blocked)
    hermes.bat gateway restart      -> ALLOWED (now blocked)
    hermes.ps1 gateway uninstall    -> ALLOWED (now blocked)
    C:\tools\hermes.exe gateway stop-> ALLOWED (now blocked)

Branch D had the same gap for process termination: `\bp?kill\b` cannot
reach inside `taskkill` (there is no word boundary between the two `k`s),
so `taskkill /F /IM hermes-gateway.exe` and `Stop-Process -Name
hermes-gateway` were allowed while `pkill -f hermes gateway` was blocked.

This is reachable. The guard is gated on `_is_supervised_gateway_process()`
— PID-file ownership — not on platform, and its callers (terminal_tool,
code_execution_tool, approval, cron) all run on Windows.

Service-control spellings (`net stop`, `sc stop`, `Stop-Service`) are
deliberately left out: they presuppose a service install this guard has
no evidence of, and guessing at one risks blocking unrelated services.
`C:/tools/hermes.exe` (forward slashes) also stays allowed — the `/` in
the Branch A lookbehind is the deliberate #77173 path false-positive
fix, and narrowing it is a separate decision.

19 new cases pin the caught spellings, the quoted/wrapped forms that
reach the same place through the tokenizing rescan, and that the suffix
does not widen the match — `hermes.exe gateway start` stays benign,
`my-hermes.exe` is still a different binary. 13 of the 19 fail without
this change.

(cherry picked from commit e81c42e4482cb72a93f6468d7571f98aa5fcb848)

* fix(cron): lifecycle guard blocks kills aimed at the gateway's own interpreter image

An agent-issued `taskkill /F /IM python.exe` (or `pkill -9 python3`, `killall python`,
`Stop-Process -Name python`, `taskkill /FI "IMAGENAME eq python.exe"`, `pgrep python | xargs
kill`) from inside the supervised gateway killed the gateway: every branch of
_GATEWAY_LIFECYCLE_PATTERN was anchored on a hermes/gateway token, and the supervised gateway is
literally a `python` process. Branch E is token-aware (not a line regex) so option values are
never read as targets, `-f` cmdline patterns are judged as patterns (`pkill -f 'python
my_script.py'` passes, `pkill -f 'python -m hermes_cli.main'` does not), and other image names
(`taskkill /F /IM agent-browser.exe`) stay killable. Numeric-PID kills stay out of scope: the
explicit PID / `proc_*` id is the ownership-scoped route the terminal rejection now names.

The guard never ran on the Windows Scheduled-Task topology either: the launcher exports only the
generalized HERMES_SUPERVISED_CHILD marker, which gateway/restart.py never read.
is_supervised_gateway_launch() reads it and gates the self-kill guards;
is_gateway_supervisor_process() deliberately keeps ignoring it because it also selects the
exit-75 restart route, which the task has no restart policy to honour (#113670).

Supersedes the narrow `/IM python.exe` regex from #113671 (kept for authorship); the Windows
spellings from #94379 (`hermes.exe gateway restart`, `taskkill`/`Stop-Process` on hermes-gateway
tokens) ride along.

Fixes #113667

* fix(cron): -f patterns must match the gateway cmdline, not any "hermes" substring; ledger names agent-issued kills

Review follow-up on #113667:

- _pattern_reaches_host_interpreter: when the `-f` head token is not an
  interpreter image, require the pattern to plausibly reach the gateway
  cmdline (hermes_cli / hermes+gateway tokens, mirroring Branch D). On
  the previous head `pkill -f 'hermes-polis/run.sh'` and
  `pkill -f my_hermes_bot.py` were hard-blocked although both are allowed
  on main and cannot match the gateway; both spellings are now negative
  controls in test_kill_forms_that_do_not_reach_the_gateway.
- lifecycle_ledger: the unclean-exit warning enumerated only OS causes
  (SIGKILL / OOM / VM death); an agent- or descendant-issued kill of the
  host interpreter leaves identical evidence and is now named in the
  cause family. One invariant test.
- test file: encoding="utf-8" on the bare write_text calls the footgun
  scanner flags.

* fix(tools): execute_code shares the interpreter-kill rejection text; collapse redundant supervisor branch

- HOST_INTERPRETER_KILL_REJECTION is one constant in cron/lifecycle_guard;
  terminal_tool_guards and the execute_code lifecycle guard both use it,
  so an image-name kill inside a cell now names the proc_* / explicit-PID
  route instead of the generic "cannot restart or stop the gateway" text.
  One invariant test with the generic path as control.
- gateway/restart.is_supervised_gateway_launch: the callee already maps
  None to os.environ; pass environ straight through.

* fix(tests): systemd-scope tests patch is_gateway_supervisor_process with its real signature

is_supervised_gateway_launch now passes environ straight through, so a
zero-arg lambda at the seam raised TypeError, which
_is_supervised_gateway_process swallows into False and the five
TestSystemdCgroupIsolation wrapping tests saw a bare /bin/bash argv.
Production is unchanged (the callee maps None to os.environ); only the
test stubs needed the optional environ parameter, including the
lambda: False control so it keeps failing for the right reason.

* fix(config): clear stale model.base_url when model.provider changes via config set

When a user runs `hermes config set model.provider <new>` to switch
providers, the old provider's `model.base_url` is left behind in
config.yaml. This causes API calls to go to the wrong endpoint.

The wizard flow (`_update_config_for_provider`) already handles this
correctly by clearing stale base_url on provider switch, but the
`hermes config set` path did not.

Now `set_config_value` detects when `model.provider` is being changed
and removes the stale `model.base_url`, allowing runtime
auto-detection to resolve the correct endpoint for the new provider.

Fixes #40862

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Thanks @pierrenode — the work in this PR has landed on main via:

Your contribution is credited there (cherry-picked authorship / co-author trailer or credit in the PR body; see the linked PR for what was kept and what was trimmed). Closing this one as landed / superseded so the backlog reflects reality. If something in your original diff is still missing on current main, please comment and we'll reopen or follow up.

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