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Summary

  • make the Mnemosyne-owned Hermes wrapper/path boundary explicit in code and tests
  • cover the public wrapper installer path, profile-link preference, symlink artifacts, manifest-only discovery, and stale-wrapper state
  • document the contract and clearly separate Mnemosyne evidence from Hermes updater, uninstall, and experimental PM behavior

Why this owner/path

The contract belongs at the Mnemosyne Hermes integration boundary because these are the paths and runtime assumptions our wrapper actually owns. The tests are derived from the existing installer helpers and exercise the public wrapper install path. They do not attempt to run or simulate the Hermes installer.

What this does not claim

This PR does not verify or implement:

  • Hermes Desktop or tagged-release update behavior;
  • hermes uninstall, provider removal, or profile deletion semantics;
  • native shared-venv conflict resolution, disable/retry behavior, or conflict UI;
  • compatibility with the experimental Hermes package manager before its upstream contract is merged and documented.

Those remain upstream Hermes gates tracked from issue #859.

Verification

  • PYTHONPATH=integrations/hermes/src uv run --frozen --extra test pytest integrations/hermes/tests/test_path_contract.py -q (3 passed)
  • PYTHONPATH=integrations/hermes/src uv run --frozen --extra test pytest integrations/hermes/tests/test_install_status.py integrations/hermes/tests/test_wrapper_bootstrap.py integrations/hermes/tests/test_install_hermes.py -q (111 passed)
  • PYTHONPATH=integrations/hermes/src uv run --frozen --extra test pytest integrations/hermes/tests -q (477 passed before the documentation-only commits)
  • python3 scripts/generate-docs.py --check (passed)
  • python3 scripts/verify-docs.py (passed; optional sibling docs checkout was absent and skipped)
  • git diff --check (passed)

Closes #859

Summary

This PR defines and tests Mnemosyne’s Hermes path contract.

  • Adds HermesPathContract and hermes_path_contract().
  • Centralizes wrapper manifest and profile-link preference paths.
  • Tests wrapper artifacts, symlinks, manifest-only discovery, side-venv separation, and stale-wrapper detection.
  • Documents HERMES_HOME survival requirements and verification limits.

Architecture impact

  • No changes to working, episodic, or BEAM memory.
  • No changes to retrieval, consolidation, veracity, sync, or benchmark methodology.
  • Strengthens the local-first design by keeping wrapper state in Mnemosyne-owned paths.
  • Keeps the wrapper environment outside HERMES_HOME.
  • Adds no new remote data flow, telemetry, or privacy exposure.
  • Makes the Hermes agent integration boundary explicit. MCP and CLI behavior are unchanged.

Assessment

This is the right boundary. Centralized, code-derived path data improves long-term maintainability. The tests avoid claiming to verify Hermes behavior that this repository cannot observe.

The PR does not verify Hermes Desktop updates or uninstall behavior, shared-venv conflict handling, or experimental package-manager compatibility.

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The change defines a HermesPathContract, centralizes wrapper artifact filenames, documents Hermes home requirements and installation modes, and adds tests for path resolution, wrapper artifacts, profile links, skills, stale wrappers, and manifest-only detection.

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Hermes path contract

Layer / File(s) Summary
Define and document Hermes paths
integrations/hermes/src/mnemosyne_hermes/install.py, docs/hermes-integration.md
Adds HermesPathContract, named artifact constants, and hermes_path_contract(). Documents Hermes home resolution, managed paths, wrapper metadata, deployment scope, and installation modes.
Centralize wrapper artifact paths
integrations/hermes/src/mnemosyne_hermes/install.py
Routes wrapper detection, metadata, profile-link preferences, bootstrap generation, and manifest writing through centralized names and helpers.
Validate installed artifacts
integrations/hermes/tests/test_path_contract.py
Tests path resolution, installed wrapper and skill artifacts, profile links, manifest contents, stale-wrapper state, and manifest-only wrapper detection.

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~15 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant hermes_path_contract
  participant HermesHome
  Caller->>hermes_path_contract: request path contract
  hermes_path_contract->>HermesHome: resolve Hermes home
  hermes_path_contract-->>Caller: return managed plugin, manifest, preference, profile, and skill paths
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The documented Hermes path contract and wrapper artifacts have focused coverage, with no actionable current-head risk established for this change.

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Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The PR satisfies the path, manifest, boundary, discovery, and documentation requirements in #859. HermesPathContract uses installer-derived paths. The contract test checks the expected Hermes-home a… Add reachable local smoke coverage that recreates the simulated managed Hermes virtual environment, then asserts that the Mnemosyne plugin directory and mnemosyne-wrapper.json remain available. Keep the test limited to Mnemosyne-owned beh…
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 71.43% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 14 functions across 2 files. (1 skipped: … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: defining the Hermes wrapper path survival contract.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes stay within #859. The installer changes centralize existing wrapper and preference path data. The tests assert the Mnemosyne-owned Hermes-home boundary, manifest detection, profile links, …
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Explanation

The PR satisfies the path, manifest, boundary, discovery, and documentation requirements in #859. HermesPathContract uses installer-derived paths. The contract test checks the expected Hermes-home artifacts, manifest-only detection, and side-venv separation. The documentation limits claims to Mnemosyne-owned behavior. The remaining smoke test deletes the selected side venv and checks stale_wrapper; it does not recreate the managed Hermes virtual environment and assert that the wrapper and manifest remain usable after that replacement flow. The full Python matrix failure is a pre-existing main test-collection failure and does not change this gap.

Resolution

Add reachable local smoke coverage that recreates the simulated managed Hermes virtual environment, then asserts that the Mnemosyne plugin directory and mnemosyne-wrapper.json remain available. Keep the test limited to Mnemosyne-owned behavior and do not claim Hermes updater verification.

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Docstring coverage is 71.43% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 14 functions across 2 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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- Around line 31-33: Update the documentation statement around the managed-venv
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Comment on lines +31 to +33
Mnemosyne CI can verify its own path construction, manifest contents, plugin
discovery, selected-home propagation, and simulated managed-venv replacement
using temporary fixtures. It cannot verify Hermes Desktop updates, update

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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🏁 Script executed:

set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- Hermes test files ---'
git ls-files 'integrations/hermes/tests/**'
printf '%s\n' '--- Relevant test references ---'
rg -n -i 'stale_wrapper|managed|side-venv|side venv|recreat|activate|wrapper|hermes.*venv|venv.*hermes' integrations/hermes/tests docs/hermes-integration.md
printf '%s\n' '--- Test file outline ---'
ast-grep outline integrations/hermes/tests
printf '%s\n' '--- Path contract test ---'
cat -n integrations/hermes/tests/test_path_contract.py
printf '%s\n' '--- Documentation excerpt ---'
sed -n '25,40p' docs/hermes-integration.md

Repository: mnemosyne-oss/mnemosyne

Length of output: 50379


🏁 Script executed:

set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- candidate test definitions ---'
rg -n -i '^(def test_|[[:space:]]+def test_)|replace|rebuild|recreat|remove\(|rmtree|shutil\.|mkdir\(|wrapper.*(import|activate|run)|activate\(' integrations/hermes/tests/test_*.py | grep -E 'test_|replace|rebuild|recreat|remove\(|rmtree|shutil\.|wrapper.*(import|activate|run)|activate\(' | head -n 260
printf '%s\n' '--- path contract test ---'
cat -n integrations/hermes/tests/test_path_contract.py
printf '%s\n' '--- wrapper bootstrap and upgrade tests ---'
sed -n '1,230p' integrations/hermes/tests/test_wrapper_bootstrap.py
sed -n '1,180p' integrations/hermes/tests/test_upgrade_wrapper.py
printf '%s\n' '--- documentation claim ---'
sed -n '29,36p' docs/hermes-integration.md

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Align the managed-venv replacement claim with the test coverage.

integrations/hermes/tests/test_path_contract.py removes mnemosyne-side-venv and checks for stale_wrapper. It does not recreate the managed venv or exercise the wrapper after replacement. Narrow “simulated managed-venv replacement” in the documentation, or add a smoke test for recreation and wrapper execution.

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In `@docs/hermes-integration.md` around lines 31 - 33, Update the documentation
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stale_wrapper, or add coverage that recreates the managed venv and executes the
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Rebase verification found a pre-existing main test-collection failure, unrelated to PR #967's changed files.

Evidence on a fresh origin/main worktree at 5161d684:

PYTHONPATH=integrations/hermes/src uv run --frozen --extra test pytest integrations/hermes/tests/test_upgrade_wrapper.py -q
ImportError: cannot import name 'upgrade' from 'mnemosyne_hermes'

main moved integrations/hermes/src/mnemosyne_hermes/upgrade.py to mnemosyne/upgrade_hermes.py, while integrations/hermes/tests/test_upgrade_wrapper.py still imports from mnemosyne_hermes import install, upgrade. The PR branch does not modify either file. The same failure reproduces before applying the four PR commits.

PR #967's own focused contract tests (3 passed), adjacent installer/bootstrap tests (111 passed), documentation checks, lint, build, and diff check pass after the rebase. The Python test matrix remains blocked by this base-branch regression; I have not added an unrelated fix to this PR.

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Rebased onto main after #972 and merged unchanged, per your note on #859.

ether-btc pushed a commit to ether-btc/mnemosyne that referenced this pull request Oct 1, 2026
* test(hermes): pin wrapper path contract

* fix(hermes): complete installer path contract

* docs(hermes): define Mnemosyne-owned home contract

* docs(hermes): qualify update behavior guidance

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Co-authored-by: Abdias J <abdi.moya@gmail.com>
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Assert the HERMES_HOME survival contract in CI, so a Hermes change breaks our build instead of a user

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