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Summary

White-glove onboarding is easier when the customer can link by entering an 8-character code on their phone instead of scanning a QR during a screenshare.

Changes

  • Add --pair-with-number <E.164> pair-only mode using Baileys sock.requestPairingCode(digits) (no +; validated with ^\+?[1-9]\d{1,14}$).
  • Print hyphenated code and short customer instructions; on success print ✓ Paired successfully. Auth saved. and exit like existing --pair-only.
  • If both --pair-only and --pair-with-number are passed, pairing-by-number wins and QR mode is ignored with a warning.
  • Extract pairing-args.js + pairing-args.test.mjs for validation/CLI parsing (npm test in scripts/whatsapp-bridge/).

How to test

  1. Use a fresh --session dir (or empty existing session) for a new link.
  2. cd scripts/whatsapp-bridge && npm ci (if needed)
  3. Run: node bridge.js --pair-with-number "+1…" --session /tmp/wa-test-session
  4. Confirm an 8-character code prints as ABCD-EFGH; complete link on the phone; bridge exits with success.

Backward compatibility

  • --pair-only QR flow unchanged (✅ Pairing complete. Credentials saved. unchanged for QR).

Reference

  • nudge-hermes-agents docs/design/local-install.md workstream C2.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added phone-number pairing as an alternative to QR pairing, with input validation and formatted pairing codes plus step-by-step setup instructions.
    • QR output is suppressed when phone pairing is enabled.
    • Pair-only flow now exits on completion of either pairing method and shows method-specific success messages; supplying both pairing flags emits a warning.
  • Tests

    • Added tests for pairing validation, code formatting, and CLI parsing.
  • Chores

    • Added a test script to run the new tests.

Use Baileys sock.requestPairingCode() behind --pair-with-number for
pair-only onboarding without QR screenshare. Keeps --pair-only QR flow.
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Walkthrough

The WhatsApp bridge adds phone-number pairing via a new CLI flag, E.164 validation and formatting utilities, Baileys pairing-code request integration, updated exit logic for pairing modes, tests for the new utilities, and a test script in the bridge package.json.

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Cohort / File(s) Summary
Pairing helper & tests
scripts/whatsapp-bridge/pairing-args.js, scripts/whatsapp-bridge/pairing-args.test.mjs
New module providing E.164-like regex, validateE164ForPairing, formatPairingCodeForDisplay, and parsePairWithNumberArg. Tests cover valid/invalid numbers, code formatting (8-char hyphenation), and CLI parsing edge cases.
Bridge integration
scripts/whatsapp-bridge/bridge.js
Adds --pair-with-number handling, validates phone input, suppresses QR output when phone pairing enabled, calls sock.requestPairingCode(...) on first socket init (fails fast if method missing), formats and logs pairing code/instructions, and uses PAIR_EXIT_MODE to exit on QR or phone pairing completion. Warns when both --pair-only and --pair-with-number are provided.
Package scripts
scripts/whatsapp-bridge/package.json
Adds test script (node --test ./*.test.mjs) and adjusts start script entry ordering.

Sequence Diagram

sequenceDiagram
    participant CLI as CLI User
    participant Bridge as Bridge Process
    participant Baileys as Baileys Library
    participant Device as WhatsApp Device

    CLI->>Bridge: start with --pair-with-number <phone>
    Bridge->>Bridge: parse & validate phone (E.164 -> digits)
    Bridge->>Baileys: init socket
    Baileys-->>Bridge: socket ready
    Bridge->>Baileys: requestPairingCode(phoneDigits)
    Baileys->>Device: send pairing request
    Device-->>Baileys: generate/confirm code
    Baileys-->>Bridge: return pairing code
    Bridge->>Bridge: format code for display
    Bridge->>CLI: display code + step-by-step instructions
    CLI->>Device: user enters code on device
    Device->>Baileys: confirm pairing
    Baileys-->>Bridge: pairing complete
    Bridge->>Bridge: exit per PAIR_EXIT_MODE
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Reject too-short phone numbers and cover the C2 pairing edge cases so operators get predictable CLI validation before Baileys is called.
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C2 review / CI triage:

  • Reviewed bridge.js, pairing-args.js, pairing-args.test.mjs, and package.json against the local-install C2 spec.
  • Confirmed Baileys exposes requestPairingCode(phoneNumber: string) and its docs require country-code digits only, no +, (), or -; the bridge strips a leading + before calling Baileys.
  • Fixed one C2 edge case in 7d6e18c6c: +155512345 was accepted even though it is too short for the intended operator-facing pairing flow. Added coverage for UK example, hyphen rejection, too-short rejection, and empty CLI value.
  • Local scripts/whatsapp-bridge npm test passes: 30 tests.
  • Refreshed PR CI: e2e, nix-lockfile-check, nix (macos-latest), and CodeRabbit pass. The full test job still fails in unrelated suites (provider_config_validation, PTY/WebSocket, background-review toolset, browser orphan reaper, WSL clipboard, docker env, file-state registry); no failures are in scripts/whatsapp-bridge.
  • Ubuntu Nix failed in Check flake; the previous run showed the failure in unrelated TUI TypeScript (ui-tui/src/app/slash/commands/ops.ts), not this bridge change. The refreshed job is currently stuck finalizing post-steps, but the failed step is already recorded.

Conclusion: C2 behavior is ready; remaining CI is advisory/baseline or unrelated to the bridge diff.

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vKongv pushed a commit that referenced this pull request May 11, 2026
Adds a TestCheckSendMessage class with 7 focused tests pinning the
four passing conditions and the failure modes:

  - HERMES_KANBAN_TASK grants access (the new branch)
  - HERMES_KANBAN_TASK short-circuits before consulting
    session_context or gateway.status (so workers don't depend on
    those import paths being healthy)
  - HERMES_SESSION_PLATFORM=telegram grants access
  - HERMES_SESSION_PLATFORM=local falls through to gateway check
  - is_gateway_running()=True grants access
  - All signals absent → False
  - gateway.status ImportError is swallowed → False

Pinning the short-circuit (test #2) is the load-bearing one — it
documents the contract that worker-side availability cannot regress
to depending on gateway-side state lookups.
vKongv pushed a commit that referenced this pull request May 24, 2026
…rch#25071)

* tui: make URLs clickable + hover-highlight in any terminal

Problem
-------
URLs printed by `hermes --tui` were not clickable in basic macOS Terminal.app.
Cmd+click did nothing, the cursor didn't change shape — like nothing was
detected — even though arrow buttons and other Box onClick handlers worked
fine.

Root cause
----------
Two layers of dead plumbing:

1. `<Link>` only emitted the underlying `<ink-link>` (which carries the
   hyperlink metadata into the screen buffer) when `supportsHyperlinks()`
   said yes. On Apple_Terminal that's false, so the per-cell hyperlink
   field stayed empty, so `Ink.getHyperlinkAt()` had nothing to return on
   click. The visible underline was just decorative.

2. `Ink.openHyperlink()` calls `this.onHyperlinkClick?.(url)`, but
   `onHyperlinkClick` was never assigned anywhere in the codebase. The
   click pipeline (`App.tsx → onOpenHyperlink → Ink.openHyperlink`) ran
   but bailed silently on the optional chain.

Bonus discovery: even when wired up, there was no hover affordance —
terminal apps can't change the system mouse cursor, so users had no
visual signal that a cell was clickable. Arrow buttons in the chrome
worked because they had explicit `<Box onClick>` styling; inline link
URLs didn't.

Fix
---
- `Link.tsx`: always emit `<ink-link>` regardless of terminal capability.
  The renderer's `wrapWithOsc8Link` already gates the actual OSC 8 escape
  on `supportsHyperlinks()` further down — so terminals that don't
  understand OSC 8 still don't see the escape, but the screen-buffer
  metadata (which the click dispatcher reads) is now populated everywhere.

- `ink.tsx + root.ts`: add `onHyperlinkClick?: (url: string) => void` to
  `Options` / `RenderOptions`, wire it to the existing `Ink.onHyperlinkClick`
  field in the constructor.

- `src/lib/openExternalUrl.ts`: small platform-aware opener using
  `child_process.spawn` with arg-array (no shell) — http(s) only, rejects
  `file:`, `javascript:`, `data:`, etc., so a hostile model can't trigger
  arbitrary local handlers via `<Link url="file:///...">`. Detached + stdio
  ignore so closing the TUI doesn't kill the browser and Chrome stderr
  doesn't leak into the alt screen.

- `entry.tsx`: pass `onHyperlinkClick: openExternalUrl` to `ink.render`.

- `hyperlinkHover.ts` + Ink hover wiring: track the URL under the pointer
  in `Ink.hoveredHyperlink`, update it from `dispatchHover`, and inverse-
  highlight every cell of the matching link in the render-pass overlay
  (same pattern as `applySearchHighlight`). This is the cursor-hover
  affordance for clickable links — terminals don't expose cursor shape,
  so we light up the link itself.

- `types/hermes-ink.d.ts`: add `onHyperlinkClick` to the `RenderOptions`
  shim so consumers (`entry.tsx`) type-check against the new option.

Tests
-----
- `src/lib/openExternalUrl.test.ts` (15 cases): http(s) accepted; file/js/
  data/mailto/ftp/ssh rejected; macOS open(1), Windows cmd.exe start with
  empty title slot, Linux xdg-open dispatch; shell-metacharacter URLs
  pass through unmolested as a single argv element; synchronous spawn
  failure returns false.

Verified empirically in Apple Terminal 455.1 (macOS 15.7.3): clicking a
URL opens in default browser, hovering inverts the link cells, and
moving away clears the highlight. Full TUI suite: 713 passing, 0
type errors.

Reverts
-------
The earlier attempt that version-gated Apple_Terminal in
`supports-hyperlinks.ts` was based on a wrong assumption — Terminal.app
silently strips OSC 8 sequences but does not render them as clickable
hyperlinks. Reverted to the original allowlist.

* tui: address Copilot review — explorer.exe on win32 + comment fixes

- openExternalUrl: switch win32 from `cmd.exe /c start` to `explorer.exe`.
  cmd.exe's `start` builtin reparses the URL through cmd's tokenizer, so
  `&`, `|`, `^`, `<`, `>` either split the command or get reinterpreted —
  breaking both the protocol-allowlist safety story AND plain http(s) URLs
  with `&` in query strings. `explorer.exe <url>` invokes the registered
  protocol handler directly with no shell.

- openExternalUrl.test.ts: rename the win32 test to reflect the new
  contract and add two regression tests — one with `&|^<>` metachars,
  one with the common analytics-URL `&` query-param pattern — both pinned
  to single-argv-element delivery via explorer.exe.

- Link.tsx: fix misleading comment. OSC 8 escapes are emitted
  unconditionally by the renderer (`wrapWithOsc8Link` in
  render-node-to-output.ts, `oscLink` in log-update.ts). Non-supporting
  terminals silently strip the sequence, which is why hover/click
  affordance has to come from the in-process overlay rather than the
  terminal's own link rendering.

Verified: 715/715 tests pass, type-check + build clean.

* tui: address Copilot review #2 — async spawn errors + hover scope + docs

1. openExternalUrl: attach a no-op `'error'` listener on the spawned
   child BEFORE unref(). spawn() returns a ChildProcess synchronously
   even when the binary is missing (ENOENT on xdg-open / explorer.exe),
   unreachable, or otherwise unusable; the failure surfaces later as
   an 'error' event. An unhandled 'error' on an EventEmitter crashes
   Node, which would tear down the whole TUI. The listener is a
   deliberate no-op — we already returned `true` synchronously and the
   user just doesn't see the browser pop.

2. openExternalUrl.test.ts: add a regression test using a real
   EventEmitter to simulate the async-error path. Pins both the
   listener-attached contract and the "doesn't throw on emit" behavior.
   Was 17/17, now 18/18.

3. ink.tsx dispatchHover: bypass `getHyperlinkAt()` and read
   `cellAt(...).hyperlink` directly. `getHyperlinkAt` falls back to
   `findPlainTextUrlAt` for cells without an OSC 8 hyperlink, but the
   render-pass overlay (`applyHyperlinkHoverHighlight`) only matches on
   `cell.hyperlink === hoveredUrl` — so plain-text URLs would burn
   re-renders without ever producing the highlight. Hover is now a
   strictly 1:1 fit for what the overlay can paint. Plain-text URLs
   still get the click action via the existing dispatch path.

4. root.ts + ink.tsx doc comments: replace the misleading "typically
   `open` / `xdg-open` / `start` shell" wording with the actual safe
   recipe — argv-array spawn into `open` / `xdg-open` / `explorer.exe`,
   with an explicit warning that `cmd.exe /c start` reparses the URL
   through cmd's tokenizer and is unsafe + breaks `&`-query URLs.

Verified: 716/716 tests pass, type-check + build clean.

* tui: address Copilot review #3 — hover damage, alt-screen cleanup, opener allowlist

1. ink.tsx onRender: stop folding steady-state hover into hlActive.
   hlActive forces a full-screen damage diff so previous-frame inverted
   cells get re-emitted when the highlight set changes. The transition
   IS the trigger — enter / leave / change-to-other-link. While the
   pointer just sits on a link the painted cells don't change and the
   per-cell diff handles the no-op. Folding the steady state in would
   burn a full-screen diff on every frame. Added a
   lastRenderedHoveredHyperlink tracker and gate the hlActive bump on
   `hovered !== lastRendered`.

2. ink.tsx setAltScreenActive: clear hoveredHyperlink (and the tracker)
   when toggling alt-screen state. Hover dispatch is alt-screen-gated,
   so once we leave there's no path to clear it. Without this, remounting
   <AlternateScreen> would paint a phantom hover from the previous
   session until the next mouse-move arrived.

3. openExternalUrl.ts openCommand: allowlist linux + the BSD family for
   xdg-open and return null for everything else (aix, sunos, cygwin,
   haiku, etc.). Previously the default-fallback always returned
   xdg-open, which made the caller's `if (!command) return false` dead
   and yielded a misleading `true` on platforms that probably don't
   have xdg-open. New tests cover the null path AND the
   openExternalUrl-returns-false-without-spawning behavior.

Verified: 718/718 tests pass, type-check + build clean.

* tui: address Copilot review #4 — doc comment accuracy

1. openExternalUrl return-value doc: now lists all three false paths
   (URL rejected / no opener for platform / synchronous spawn throw)
   plus a note that async 'error' events still return true because the
   spawn was attempted.

2. ink.tsx onHyperlinkClick field doc: clarifies the callback receives
   either an OSC 8 hyperlink OR a plain-text URL detected by
   findPlainTextUrlAt — App.tsx routes both into the same callback.

3. hyperlinkHover applyHyperlinkHoverHighlight doc: drops the misleading
   'caller forces full-frame damage' promise. Caller decides; for hover
   the current caller only forces full damage on transitions.

No behavior change. 718/718 tests pass.

* tui: address Copilot review #5 — lint fixes

1. ink.tsx: reorder `./hyperlinkHover.js` import before `./screen.js` to
   satisfy perfectionist/sort-imports.

2. Link.tsx: drop unused `fallback` parameter destructuring + the
   trailing `void (null as ...)` dead-statement (would trip
   no-unused-expressions). Kept `fallback?: ReactNode` on the Props
   interface as a documented compat shim so existing call sites still
   compile, with a comment explaining why it's no longer wired up.

3. openExternalUrl.test.ts: replace `typeof import('node:child_process').spawn`
   inline annotations (forbidden by @typescript-eslint/consistent-type-imports)
   with a `SpawnLike` type alias backed by a real `import type { spawn as SpawnFn }`.

No behavior change. 718/718 tests pass, type-check clean, lint clean on
all modified files.
vKongv pushed a commit that referenced this pull request May 24, 2026
…ex models (NousResearch#24182)

* feat(codex-runtime): scaffold optional codex app-server runtime

Foundational commit for an opt-in alternate runtime that hands OpenAI/Codex
turns to a 'codex app-server' subprocess instead of Hermes' tool dispatch.
Default behavior is unchanged.

Lands in three pieces:

1. agent/transports/codex_app_server.py — JSON-RPC 2.0 over stdio speaker
   for codex's app-server protocol (codex-rs/app-server). Spawn, init
   handshake, request/response, notification queue, server-initiated
   request queue (for approval round-trips), interrupt-friendly blocking
   reads. Tested against real codex 0.130.0 binary end-to-end during
   development.

2. hermes_cli/runtime_provider.py:
   - Adds 'codex_app_server' to _VALID_API_MODES.
   - Adds _maybe_apply_codex_app_server_runtime() helper, called at the
     end of _resolve_runtime_from_pool_entry(). Inert unless
     'model.openai_runtime: codex_app_server' is set in config.yaml AND
     provider in {openai, openai-codex}. Other providers cannot be
     rerouted (anthropic, openrouter, etc. preserved).

3. tests/agent/transports/test_codex_app_server_runtime.py — 24 tests
   covering api_mode registration, the rewriter helper (default-off,
   case-insensitive, opt-in, non-eligible providers preserved), version
   parser, missing-binary handling, error class. Does NOT require codex
   CLI installed.

This commit is wire-only: the api_mode is recognized but AIAgent does
not yet branch on it. Followup commits add the session adapter, event
projector, approval bridge, transcript projection (so memory/skill
review still works), plugin migration, and slash command.

Existing tests remain green:
- tests/cli/test_cli_provider_resolution.py (29 passed)
- tests/agent/test_credential_pool_routing.py (included above)

* feat(codex-runtime): add codex item projector for memory/skill review

The translator that lets Hermes' self-improvement loop keep working under the
Codex runtime: converts codex 'item/*' notifications into Hermes' standard
{role, content, tool_calls, tool_call_id} message shape that
agent/curator.py already knows how to read.

Item taxonomy (matches codex-rs/app-server-protocol/src/protocol/v2/item.rs):
  - userMessage          → {role: user, content}
  - agentMessage         → {role: assistant, content: text}
  - reasoning            → stashed in next assistant's 'reasoning' field
  - commandExecution     → assistant tool_call(name='exec_command') + tool result
  - fileChange           → assistant tool_call(name='apply_patch') + tool result
  - mcpToolCall          → assistant tool_call(name='mcp.<server>.<tool>') + tool result
  - dynamicToolCall      → assistant tool_call(name=<tool>) + tool result
  - plan/hookPrompt/etc  → opaque assistant note, no fabricated tool_calls

Invariants preserved:
  - Message role alternation never violated: each tool item produces at most
    one assistant + one tool message in that order, correlated by call_id.
  - Streaming deltas (item/<type>/outputDelta, item/agentMessage/delta)
    don't materialize messages — only item/completed does. Mirrors how
    Hermes already only writes the assistant message after streaming ends.
  - Tool call ids are deterministic (codex item id-based) so replays produce
    identical messages and prefix caches stay valid (AGENTS.md pitfall #16).
  - JSON args use sorted_keys for the same reason.

Real wire formats verified against codex 0.130.0 by capturing live
notifications from thread/shellCommand and including one as a fixture
(COMMAND_EXEC_COMPLETED).

23 new tests, all green:
  - Streaming deltas don't materialize (3 paths)
  - Turn/thread frame events are silent
  - commandExecution: 5 tests including non-zero exit annotation +
    deterministic id stability across replays
  - agentMessage + reasoning attachment + reasoning consumption
  - fileChange: summary without inlined content
  - mcpToolCall: namespaced naming + error surfacing
  - userMessage: text fragments only (drops images/etc)
  - opaque items: no fabricated tool_calls
  - Helpers: deterministic id stability + sorted JSON args
  - Role alternation invariant across all four tool-shaped item types

This commit is a pure addition. AIAgent integration (the wire that uses the
projector) is the next commit.

* feat(codex-runtime): add session adapter + approval bridge

The third self-contained module: CodexAppServerSession owns one Codex
thread per Hermes session, drives turn/start, consumes streaming
notifications via CodexEventProjector, handles server-initiated approval
requests, and translates cancellation into turn/interrupt.

The adapter has a single public per-turn method:

    result = session.run_turn(user_input='...', turn_timeout=600)
    # result.final_text          → assistant text for the caller
    # result.projected_messages  → list ready to splice into AIAgent.messages
    # result.tool_iterations     → tick count for _iters_since_skill nudge
    # result.interrupted         → True on Ctrl+C / deadline / interrupt
    # result.error               → error string when the turn cannot complete
    # result.turn_id, thread_id  → for sessions DB / resume

Behavior:

  - ensure_started() spawns codex, does the initialize handshake, and
    issues thread/start with cwd + permissions profile. Idempotent.
  - run_turn() blocks until turn/completed, drains server-initiated
    requests (approvals) before reading notifications so codex never
    deadlocks waiting for us, projects every item/completed via the
    projector, and increments tool_iterations for the skill nudge gate.
  - request_interrupt() is thread-safe (threading.Event); the next loop
    iteration issues turn/interrupt and unwinds.
  - turn_timeout deadlock guard issues turn/interrupt and records an
    error if the turn never completes.
  - close() escalates terminate → kill via the underlying client.

Approval bridge:

  Codex emits server-initiated requests for execCommandApproval and
  applyPatchApproval. The adapter translates Hermes' approval choice
  vocabulary onto codex's decision vocabulary:

    Hermes 'once'                → codex 'approved'
    Hermes 'session' or 'always' → codex 'approvedForSession'
    Hermes 'deny' / anything else → codex 'denied'

  Routing precedence:
    1. _ServerRequestRouting.auto_approve_* flags (cron / non-interactive)
    2. approval_callback wired by the CLI (defers to
       tools.approval.prompt_dangerous_approval())
    3. Fail-closed denial when neither is wired

  Unknown server-request methods are answered with JSON-RPC error -32601
  so codex doesn't hang waiting for us.

Permission profile mapping mirrors AGENTS.md:
    Hermes 'auto'              → codex 'workspace-write'
    Hermes 'approval-required' → codex 'read-only-with-approval'
    Hermes 'unrestricted/yolo' → codex 'full-access'

20 new tests, all green. Combined with prior commits this PR now has
67 tests across three modules:
  - test_codex_app_server_runtime.py: 24 (api_mode + transport surface)
  - test_codex_event_projector.py: 23 (item taxonomy projections)
  - test_codex_app_server_session.py: 20 (turn loop + approvals + interrupts)

Full tests/agent/transports/ directory: 249/249 pass — no regressions
to existing transport tests.

Still no wire into AIAgent.run_conversation(); that integration commit
is small and goes next.

* feat(codex-runtime): wire codex_app_server runtime into AIAgent

The integration commit. AIAgent.run_conversation() now early-returns to a
new helper _run_codex_app_server_turn() when self.api_mode ==
'codex_app_server', bypassing the chat_completions tool loop entirely.

Three small surgical edits to run_agent.py (~105 LOC total):

1. Line ~1204 (constructor api_mode validation set):
   Add 'codex_app_server' so an explicit api_mode='codex_app_server'
   passed to AIAgent() isn't silently rewritten to 'chat_completions'.

2. Line ~12048 (run_conversation, just before the while loop):
   Early-return to _run_codex_app_server_turn() when self.api_mode is
   'codex_app_server'. Placed AFTER all standard pre-loop setup —
   logging context, session DB, surrogate sanitization, _user_turn_count
   and _turns_since_memory increments, _ext_prefetch_cache, memory
   manager on_turn_start — so behavior outside the model-call loop is
   identical between paths. Default Hermes flow is unchanged when the
   flag is off.

3. End-of-class (line ~15497):
   New method _run_codex_app_server_turn(). Lazy-instantiates one
   CodexAppServerSession per AIAgent (reused across turns), runs the
   turn, splices projected_messages into messages, increments
   _iters_since_skill by tool_iterations (since the chat_completions
   loop normally does that per iteration), fires
   _spawn_background_review on the same cadence as the default path.

Counter accounting:

  _turns_since_memory  ← already incremented at run_conversation:11817
                         (gated on memory store configured) — codex
                         helper does NOT touch it (would double-count).
  _user_turn_count     ← already incremented at run_conversation:11793
                         — codex helper does NOT touch it.
  _iters_since_skill   ← incremented in the chat_completions loop per
                         tool iteration. Codex helper increments by
                         turn.tool_iterations since the loop is bypassed.

User message:

  ALREADY appended to messages by run_conversation pre-loop (line 11823)
  before the early-return reaches us. Helper does NOT append again.
  Regression test test_user_message_not_duplicated guards this.

Approval callback wiring:

  Lazy-fetches tools.terminal_tool._get_approval_callback at session
  spawn time, passes to CodexAppServerSession. CLI threads with
  prompt_toolkit get interactive approvals; gateway/cron contexts get
  the codex-side fail-closed deny.

Error path:

  Codex session exceptions become a 'partial' result with completed=False
  and a final_response that explicitly tells the user how to switch back:
  'Codex app-server turn failed: ... Fall back to default runtime with
  /codex-runtime auto.' Same return-dict shape as the chat_completions
  path so all callers (gateway, CLI, batch_runner, ACP) work unchanged.

9 new integration tests in tests/run_agent/test_codex_app_server_integration.py:
  - api_mode='codex_app_server' is accepted on AIAgent construction
  - run_conversation returns the expected codex shape
    (final_response, codex_thread_id, codex_turn_id, completed, partial)
  - Projected messages are spliced into messages list
  - _iters_since_skill ticks per tool iteration
  - _user_turn_count delegated to standard flow (not double-counted)
  - User message appears exactly once (regression guard)
  - _spawn_background_review IS invoked (memory/skill review keeps working)
  - chat.completions.create is NEVER called (loop fully bypassed)
  - Session exception → partial result with /codex-runtime auto hint
  - Interrupted turn → partial result with error preserved

Adjacent test runs confirm no regressions:
  - tests/run_agent/test_memory_nudge_counter_hydration.py: green
  - tests/run_agent/test_background_review.py: green
  - tests/run_agent/test_fallback_model.py: green
  - tests/agent/transports/: 249/249 green

Still missing for full feature: /codex-runtime slash command, plugin
migration helper, docs page, live e2e test gated on codex binary. Those
are the remaining followup commits.

* feat(codex-runtime): add /codex-runtime slash command (CLI + gateway)

User-facing toggle for the optional codex app-server runtime. Follows the
'Adding a Slash Command (All Platforms)' pattern from AGENTS.md exactly:
single CommandDef in the central registry → CLI handler → gateway handler
→ running-agent guard → all surfaces (autocomplete, /help, Telegram menu,
Slack subcommands) update automatically.

Surface:
    /codex-runtime                    — show current state + codex CLI status
    /codex-runtime auto               — Hermes default runtime
    /codex-runtime codex_app_server   — codex subprocess runtime
    /codex-runtime on / off           — synonyms

Files changed:

  hermes_cli/codex_runtime_switch.py (new):
    Pure-Python state machine shared by CLI and gateway. Parse args,
    read/write model.openai_runtime in the config dict, gate enabling
    behind a codex --version check (don't let users opt in to a runtime
    they have no binary for; print npm install hint instead).
    Returns a CodexRuntimeStatus dataclass that callers render however
    suits their surface.

  hermes_cli/commands.py:
    Single CommandDef entry, no aliases (codex-runtime is its own thing).

  cli.py:
    Dispatch in process_command() + _handle_codex_runtime() handler that
    delegates to the shared module and renders results via _cprint.

  gateway/run.py:
    Dispatch in _handle_message() + _handle_codex_runtime_command() that
    returns a string (gateway sends as message). On a successful change
    that requires a new session, _evict_cached_agent() forces the next
    inbound message to construct a fresh AIAgent with the new api_mode —
    avoids prompt-cache invalidation mid-session.

  gateway/run.py running-agent guard:
    /codex-runtime joins /model in the early-intercept block so a runtime
    flip mid-turn can't split a turn across two transports.

Tests:
  tests/hermes_cli/test_codex_runtime_switch.py — 25 tests covering the
  state machine: arg parsing (10 cases incl. case-insensitive and
  synonyms), reading current runtime (5 cases incl. malformed configs),
  writing runtime (3 cases), apply() entry point covering read-only,
  no-op, codex-missing-blocked, codex-present-success, disable-no-binary-check,
  and persist-failure paths (8 cases). All green.

Adjacent test suites confirm no regressions:
  - tests/hermes_cli/test_commands.py + test_codex_runtime_switch.py:
    167/167 green
  - tests/agent/transports/: 283/283 green when combined with prior commits

Still missing: plugin migration helper, docs page, live e2e test gated on
codex binary. Followup commits.

* feat(codex-runtime): auto-migrate Hermes MCP servers to ~/.codex/config.toml

Translates the user's mcp_servers config from ~/.hermes/config.yaml into
the TOML format codex's MCP client expects. Wired into the
/codex-runtime codex_app_server enable path so users get their MCP tool
surface in the spawned subprocess automatically.

The migration runs on every enable. Failures are non-fatal — the runtime
change still proceeds and the user gets a warning so they can fix the
codex config manually.

What translates (mapping verified against codex-rs/core/src/config/edit.rs):
  Hermes mcp_servers.<n>.command/args/env  → codex stdio transport
  Hermes mcp_servers.<n>.url/headers       → codex streamable_http transport
  Hermes mcp_servers.<n>.timeout           → codex tool_timeout_sec
  Hermes mcp_servers.<n>.connect_timeout   → codex startup_timeout_sec
  Hermes mcp_servers.<n>.cwd               → codex stdio cwd
  Hermes mcp_servers.<n>.enabled: false    → codex enabled = false

What does NOT translate (warned + skipped per server):
  Hermes-specific keys (sampling, etc.) — codex's MCP client has no
  equivalent. Listed in the per-server skipped[] field of the report.

What's NOT migrated (intentional):
  AGENTS.md — codex respects this file natively in its cwd. Hermes' own
  AGENTS.md (project-level) is already in the worktree, so codex picks
  it up without translation. No code needed.

Idempotency design:
  All managed content lives between a 'managed by hermes-agent' marker
  and the next non-mcp_servers section header. _strip_existing_managed_block
  removes the prior managed region cleanly, preserving any user-added
  codex config (model, providers.openai, sandbox profiles, etc.) above
  or below.

Files added:
  hermes_cli/codex_runtime_plugin_migration.py — pure-Python migration
    helper. Public API: migrate(hermes_config, codex_home=None,
    dry_run=False) returns MigrationReport with .migrated/.errors/
    .skipped_keys_per_server. No external TOML dependency — minimal
    formatter handles strings/numbers/booleans/lists/inline-tables.

  tests/hermes_cli/test_codex_runtime_plugin_migration.py — 39 tests
  covering:
    - per-server translation (12): stdio/http/sse, cwd, timeouts,
      enabled flag, command+url precedence, sampling drop, unknown keys
    - TOML formatter (8): types, escaping, inline tables, error case
    - existing-block stripping (4): no marker, alone, with user content
      above, with user content below
    - end-to-end migrate() (8): empty, dry-run, round-trip, idempotent
      re-run, preserves user config, error reporting, invalid input,
      summary formatting

Files changed:
  hermes_cli/codex_runtime_switch.py — apply() now calls migrate() in
    the codex_app_server enable branch. Migration failure logs a warning
    in the result message but does NOT fail the runtime change. Disable
    path (auto) explicitly skips migration.

  tests/hermes_cli/test_codex_runtime_switch.py — 3 new tests:
    test_enable_triggers_mcp_migration, test_disable_does_not_trigger_migration,
    test_migration_failure_does_not_block_enable.

All 325 feature tests green:
  - tests/agent/transports/: 249 (incl. 67 new)
  - tests/run_agent/test_codex_app_server_integration.py: 9
  - tests/hermes_cli/test_codex_runtime_switch.py: 28 (3 new)
  - tests/hermes_cli/test_codex_runtime_plugin_migration.py: 39 (new)

* perf(codex-runtime): cache codex --version check within apply()

Single /codex-runtime invocation could spawn 'codex --version' up to 3
times (state report, enable gate, success message). Each spawn is ~50ms,
so the cumulative cost wasn't a crisis, but it was wasteful and turned a
trivial slash command into something noticeably laggy on slower systems.

Refactored to lazy-once via a closure over a nonlocal cache. First call
spawns; subsequent calls in the same apply() reuse the result.

Behavior unchanged — same return shape, same error handling, same install
hint when codex is missing. Just one subprocess per call instead of three.

Two regression-guard tests added:
  - test_binary_check_cached_within_apply: enable path → call_count == 1
  - test_binary_check_cached_on_read_only_call: state-report path → call_count == 1

Total tests for /codex-runtime now 30 (was 28); all 143 codex-runtime
tests still green.

* fix(codex-runtime): correct protocol field names found via live e2e test

Three real bugs caught only by running a turn end-to-end against codex
0.130.0 with a real ChatGPT subscription. Unit tests passed because they
asserted on our own (incorrect) wire shapes; the wire format from
codex-rs/app-server-protocol/src/protocol/v2/* is the source of truth and
my initial reading of the README was incomplete.

Bug 1: thread/start.permissions wire format

Was sending {"profileId": "workspace-write"}.
Real format per PermissionProfileSelectionParams enum (tagged union):
  {"type": "profile", "id": "workspace-write"}
AND requires the experimentalApi capability declared during initialize.
AND requires a matching [permissions] table in ~/.codex/config.toml or
codex fails the request with 'default_permissions requires a [permissions]
table'.

Fix: stop overriding permissions on thread/start. Codex picks its default
profile (read-only unless user configures otherwise), which matches what
codex CLI users expect — they configure their default permission profile
in ~/.codex/config.toml the standard way. Trying to be clever about
profile selection broke every turn we tested.

Live error before fix: 'Invalid request: missing field type' on every
turn/start, even though our turn/start payload was correct — the field
codex was complaining about was inside the permissions sub-object we
shouldn't have been sending.

Bug 2: server-request method names

Was matching 'execCommandApproval' and 'applyPatchApproval'.
Real names per common.rs ServerRequest enum:
  item/commandExecution/requestApproval
  item/fileChange/requestApproval
  item/permissions/requestApproval (new third method)

Fix: match the documented names. Added handler for
item/permissions/requestApproval that always declines — codex sometimes
asks to escalate permissions mid-turn and silent acceptance would surprise
users.

Live symptom before fix: agent.log showed
'Unknown codex server request: item/commandExecution/requestApproval'
and codex stalled because we replied with -32601 (unsupported method)
instead of an approval decision. The agent reported back 'The write
command was rejected' even though Hermes never showed the user an
approval prompt.

Bug 3: approval decision values

Was sending decision strings 'approved'/'approvedForSession'/'denied'.
Real values per CommandExecutionApprovalDecision enum (camelCase):
  accept, acceptForSession, decline, cancel
(also AcceptWithExecpolicyAmendment and ApplyNetworkPolicyAmendment
variants we don't currently use).

Fix: rename _approval_choice_to_codex_decision return values; update
auto_approve_* fallbacks; update fail-closed default from 'denied' to
'decline'. Test mapping table updated to match.

Live test verified after fixes:
  $ hermes (with model.openai_runtime: codex_app_server)
  > Run the shell command: echo hermes-codex-livetest > .../proof.txt
    then read it back

  Approval prompt fired with 'Codex requests exec in <cwd>'.
  User chose 'Allow once'. Codex executed the command, wrote the file,
  read it back. Final response: 'Read back from proof.txt:
  hermes-codex-livetest'. File contents on disk match.

agent.log confirms:
  codex app-server thread started: id=019e200e profile=workspace-write
                                    cwd=/tmp/hermes-codex-livetest/workspace

All 20 session tests still green after wire-format updates.

* fix(codex-runtime): correct apply_patch approval params + ship docs

Live e2e revealed FileChangeRequestApprovalParams doesn't carry the
changeset (just itemId, threadId, turnId, reason, grantRoot) — Codex's
'reason' field describes what the patch wants to do. Test config and
display logic updated to use it. The first 'apply_patch (0 change(s))'
display from the live test is now 'apply_patch: <reason>'.

Adds website/docs/user-guide/features/codex-app-server-runtime.md
covering enable/disable, prerequisites, approval UX, MCP migration
behavior, permission profile delegation to ~/.codex/config.toml, known
limitations, and the architecture diagram. Wired into the Automation
category in sidebars.ts.

Live e2e validation across the path matrix:
  ✓ thread/start handshake
  ✓ turn/start with text input
  ✓ commandExecution items + projection
  ✓ item/commandExecution/requestApproval → Hermes UI → response
  ✓ Approve once → command runs
  ✓ Deny → command rejected, codex falls back to read-only message
  ✓ Multi-turn (codex remembers prior turn's results)
  ✓ apply_patch via Codex's fileChange path
  ✓ item/fileChange/requestApproval → Hermes UI
  ✓ MCP server migration loads inside spawned codex (verified via
    'use the filesystem MCP tool' prompt)
  ✓ /codex-runtime auto → codex_app_server toggle cycle
  ✓ Disable doesn't trigger migration
  ✓ Enable with codex CLI present succeeds + migrates
  ✓ Hermes-side interrupt path (turn/interrupt request issued cleanly
    even if codex finishes before the interrupt lands)

Known live-validated limitations now documented in the docs page:
  - delegate_task subagents unavailable on this runtime
  - permission profile selection delegated to ~/.codex/config.toml
  - apply_patch approval prompt has no inline changeset (codex protocol
    doesn't expose it)

145/145 codex-runtime tests still green.

* feat(codex-runtime): native plugin migration + UX polish (quirks 2/4/5/10/11)

Major: migrate native Codex plugins (#7 in OpenClaw's PR list)

Discovers installed curated plugins via codex's plugin/list RPC and
writes [plugins."<name>@<marketplace>"] entries to ~/.codex/config.toml
so they're enabled in the spawned Codex sessions. This is the
'YouTube-video-worthy' bit Pash highlighted: when a user has
google-calendar, github, etc. installed in their Codex CLI, those
plugins activate automatically when they enable Hermes' codex runtime.

Implementation:
  - hermes_cli/codex_runtime_plugin_migration.py: new _query_codex_plugins()
    helper spawns 'codex app-server' briefly and walks plugin/list. Returns
    (plugins, error) — failures are non-fatal so MCP migration still works.
  - render_codex_toml_section() now takes plugins + permissions args.
  - migrate() defaults: discover_plugins=True, default_permission_profile=
    'workspace-write'. Explicit None on either disables that side.
  - _strip_existing_managed_block() now also strips [plugins.*] and
    [permissions]/[permissions.*] sections inside the managed block, so
    re-runs replace plugins cleanly without touching codex's own config.

Quirk fixes:

#2 Default permissions profile written on enable.
   Without this, Codex's read-only default kicks in and EVERY write
   triggers an approval prompt. Now writes [permissions] default =
   'workspace-write' so the runtime feels normal out of the box. Set
   default_permission_profile=None to opt out.

#4 apply_patch approval prompt now shows what's changing.
   Codex's FileChangeRequestApprovalParams doesn't carry the changeset.
   Session adapter now caches the fileChange item from item/started
   notifications and looks it up by itemId when codex requests approval.
   Prompt shows '1 add, 1 update: /tmp/new.py, /tmp/old.py' instead of
   'apply_patch (0 change(s))'.

   Side benefit: also drains pending notifications BEFORE handling a
   server request, so the projector and per-turn caches are up to date
   when the approval decision fires. Bounded to 8 notifications per
   loop iter to avoid starving codex's response.

#5/#10 Exec approval prompt never shows empty cwd.
   When codex omits cwd in CommandExecutionRequestApprovalParams, fall
   back to the session's cwd. If somehow neither is available, show
   '<unknown>' explicitly instead of an empty string.

   Also surfaces 'reason' from the approval params when codex provides
   it — gives users more context on why codex wants to run something.

#11 Banner indicates the codex_app_server runtime when active.
   New 'Runtime: codex app-server (terminal/file ops/MCP run inside
   codex)' line appears in the welcome banner only when the runtime is
   on. Default banner is unchanged.

Tests:
  - 7 new tests in test_codex_runtime_plugin_migration.py covering
    plugin discovery (mocked), failure handling, dry-run skip, opt-out
    flag, idempotent re-runs, and permissions writing.
  - 3 new tests in test_codex_app_server_session.py covering the
    enriched approval prompts: cwd fallback, change summary on
    apply_patch, fallback when no item/started cache exists.
  - All 26 session tests + 46 migration tests green; 153 total in PR.

* feat(codex-runtime): hermes-tools MCP callback + native plugin migration

The big architectural addition: when codex_app_server runtime is on,
Hermes registers its own tool surface as an MCP server in
~/.codex/config.toml so the codex subprocess can call back into Hermes
for tools codex doesn't ship with — web_search, browser_*, vision,
image_generate, skills, TTS.

Also: 'migrate native codex plugins' (Pash's YouTube-video-worthy bit) —
when the user has plugins like Linear, GitHub, Gmail, Calendar, Canva
installed via 'codex plugin', Hermes discovers them via plugin/list and
writes [plugins.<name>@openai-curated] entries so they activate
automatically.

New module: agent/transports/hermes_tools_mcp_server.py
  FastMCP stdio server exposing 17 Hermes tools. Each call dispatches
  through model_tools.handle_function_call() — same code path as the
  Hermes default runtime. Run with:
    python -m agent.transports.hermes_tools_mcp_server [--verbose]

  Exposed: web_search, web_extract, browser_navigate / _click / _type /
    _press / _snapshot / _scroll / _back / _get_images / _console /
    _vision, vision_analyze, image_generate, skill_view, skills_list,
    text_to_speech.

  NOT exposed (deliberately):
    - terminal/shell/read_file/write_file/patch — codex has built-ins
    - delegate_task/memory/session_search/todo — _AGENT_LOOP_TOOLS in
      model_tools.py:493, require running AIAgent context. Documented
      as a limitation and surfaced in the slash command output.

Migration changes (hermes_cli/codex_runtime_plugin_migration.py):
  - _query_codex_plugins() spawns 'codex app-server' briefly to walk
    plugin/list and pull installed openai-curated plugins. Failures are
    non-fatal — MCP migration still completes.
  - render_codex_toml_section() now takes plugins + permissions args
    AND wraps the managed block with a MIGRATION_END_MARKER comment so
    the stripper can reliably find both ends, even when the block
    contains top-level keys (default_permissions = ...).
  - migrate() defaults: discover_plugins=True, expose_hermes_tools=True,
    default_permission_profile=':workspace' (built-in codex profile name
    — must be prefixed with ':'). All three opt-out via explicit args.
  - _build_hermes_tools_mcp_entry() builds the codex stdio entry with
    HERMES_HOME and PYTHONPATH passthrough so a worktree-launched
    Hermes points the MCP subprocess at the same module layout.

Live-caught wire bugs fixed during this turn:
  1. Permission profile config key is top-level , NOT a [permissions] table. The [permissions] table is
     for *user-defined* profiles with structured fields. Built-in
     profile names start with ':' (':workspace', ':read-only',
     ':danger-no-sandbox'). Was emitting
     which codex rejected with 'invalid type: string "X", expected
     struct PermissionProfileToml'.
  2. Built-in profile is , NOT . Codex
     rejected  with 'unknown built-in profile'.
  3. Codex's MCP layer sends  for
     tool-call confirmation. We weren't handling it, so codex stalled
     and returned 'MCP tool call was rejected'. Now: auto-accept for
     our own hermes-tools server (user already opted in by enabling
     the runtime), decline for third-party servers.

Quirk fixes shipped (from the limitations list):
  #2 default permissions: workspace profile written on enable. No more
     approval prompt on every write.
  #4 apply_patch approval shows what's changing: cache fileChange
     items from item/started, look up by itemId when codex sends
     item/fileChange/requestApproval. Prompt: '1 add, 1 update:
     /tmp/new.py, /tmp/old.py' instead of '0 change(s)'.
  #5/#10 exec approval cwd never empty: fall back to session cwd, then
     '<unknown>'. Also surfaces 'reason' from codex when present.
  #11 banner shows 'Runtime: codex app-server' line when active so
     users understand why tool counts may not match what's reachable.

Tests:
  - 5 new tests in test_codex_runtime_plugin_migration.py covering
    plugin discovery, expose_hermes_tools entry generation, idempotent
    re-runs, opt-out flag, permissions profile.
  - 3 new tests in test_codex_app_server_session.py covering enriched
    approval prompts (cwd fallback, fileChange summary).
  - 2 new tests for mcpServer/elicitation/request handling (accept
    hermes-tools, decline others).
  - New test file test_hermes_tools_mcp_server.py covering module
    surface, EXPOSED_TOOLS safety invariants (no shell/file_ops,
    no agent-loop tools), and main() error paths.
  - 166 codex-runtime tests total, all green.

Live e2e validated against codex 0.130.0 + ChatGPT subscription:
  ✓ /codex-runtime codex_app_server enables, migrates filesystem MCP,
    registers hermes-tools, writes default_permissions = ':workspace'
  ✓ Banner shows 'Runtime: codex app-server' line in subsequent sessions
  ✓ Shell command runs without approval prompt (workspace profile works)
  ✓ Multi-turn — codex remembers prior turn's results
  ✓ apply_patch path via fileChange request approval
  ✓ web_search via hermes-tools MCP callback returns real Firecrawl
    results: 'OpenAI Codex CLI – Getting Started' end-to-end in 13s
  ✓ Disable cycle clean

Docs updated: website/docs/user-guide/features/codex-app-server-runtime.md
  Full re-write covering native plugin migration, the hermes-tools
  callback architecture, the prerequisites change ('codex login is
  separate from hermes auth login codex'), the trade-off table now
  reflecting which Hermes tools work via callback, and the limitations
  list updated with what's actually unavailable on this runtime.

* feat(codex-runtime): pin user-config preservation invariant for quirk #6

Quirk #6 from the limitations list — user MCP servers / overrides /
codex-only sections in ~/.codex/config.toml that live OUTSIDE the
hermes-managed block must survive re-migration verbatim.

This already worked thanks to the MIGRATION_MARKER + MIGRATION_END_MARKER
pair I added when fixing the default_permissions wire format (so the
strip can find both ends of the managed region even with top-level
keys like default_permissions). But it was an emergent property
without a test pinning it.

Now explicitly tested:
  - User MCP server above the managed block survives migration
  - User MCP server below the managed block survives migration
  - Both above + below survive a second re-migration
  - User content (model, providers, sandbox, otel, etc.) outside our
    region is left untouched

Docs added a section "Editing ~/.codex/config.toml safely" explaining
the marker contract — so users know they can add their own MCP
servers, override permissions, configure codex-only options, etc.
without fear of Hermes overwriting their work.

167 codex-runtime tests, all green.

* docs(codex-runtime): clarify the actual tool surface — shell covers terminal/read/write/find

Previous docs and PR description undersold what codex's built-in
toolset actually provides. apply_patch alone made it sound like the
runtime could only edit files in patch format — implying you'd lose
terminal use, read_file, write_file, search/find. That was wrong.

Codex's 'shell' tool runs arbitrary shell commands inside the sandbox,
which covers everything you'd do in bash: cat/head/tail (read), echo>
or heredocs (write), find/rg/grep (search), ls/cd (navigate), build/
test/git/etc. apply_patch is for structured multi-file edits on top
of that. update_plan is its in-runtime todo. view_image loads images.
And codex has its own web_search built in (in addition to the
Firecrawl-backed one Hermes exposes via MCP callback).

Docs now have a 'What tools the model actually has' section right
after Why, breaking the surface into three clearly-labeled buckets:

  1. Codex's built-in toolset (always on) — shell, apply_patch,
     update_plan, view_image, web_search; covers everything terminal-
     adjacent.
  2. Native Codex plugins (auto-migrated from your codex plugin
     install) — Linear, GitHub, Gmail, Calendar, Outlook, Canva, etc.
  3. Hermes tool callback (MCP server in ~/.codex/config.toml) —
     web_search/web_extract via Firecrawl, browser_*, vision_analyze,
     image_generate, skill_view/skills_list, text_to_speech.

Plus a 'What's NOT available' callout listing the four agent-loop tools
(delegate_task, memory, session_search, todo) that need running
AIAgent context and can't reach the codex runtime.

Trade-offs table broken out: shell, apply_patch, update_plan,
view_image, sandbox each get their own row with a one-line description
so users can see at a glance what's available natively.

Architecture diagram updated to list the codex built-ins by name
instead of 'apply_patch + shell + sandbox'.

No code changes — purely docs clarification. 167 codex-runtime tests
still green.

* fix(codex-runtime): _spawn_background_review signature + review fork api_mode downgrade

Two real bugs in the self-improvement loop integration that the previous
test mocked away.

Bug 1: wrong call signature

The codex helper was calling self._spawn_background_review() with no
args after every turn. That function actually requires:
  messages_snapshot=list   (positional or keyword)
  review_memory=bool       (at least one trigger must be True)
  review_skills=bool

So the call would have raised TypeError at runtime — except the only
test that exercised this path mocked _spawn_background_review entirely
and just asserted spawn.called, so the wrong-arg shape never surfaced.

Bug 2: review fork inherits codex_app_server api_mode

The review fork is constructed with:
  api_mode = _parent_runtime.get('api_mode')

So when the parent is codex_app_server, the review fork ALSO runs as
codex_app_server. But the review fork's whole job is to call agent-loop
tools (memory, skill_manage) which require Hermes' own dispatch — they
short-circuit with 'must be handled by the agent loop' on the codex
runtime. So the review fork would have run, decided to save something,
called memory or skill_manage, and silently no-op'd.

Fixed in run_agent.py:_spawn_background_review() — when the parent
api_mode is 'codex_app_server', the review fork is downgraded to
'codex_responses' (same OAuth credentials, same openai-codex provider,
but talks to OpenAI's Responses API directly so Hermes owns the loop).

Also rewrote the codex helper's review wiring to match the
chat_completions path:
  - Computes _should_review_memory in the pre-loop block (was already
    being computed; now passed through to the helper as an arg).
  - Computes _should_review_skills AFTER the codex turn returns +
    counters tick (line ~15432 pattern in chat_completions).
  - Calls _spawn_background_review(messages_snapshot=, review_memory=,
    review_skills=) only when at least one trigger fires.
  - Adds the external memory provider sync (_sync_external_memory_for_turn)
    that the chat_completions path runs after every turn.

Tests:

  Replaced the broken test_background_review_invoked (which only
  asserted spawn.called) with three sharper tests:
    - test_background_review_NOT_invoked_below_threshold:
      single turn at default thresholds → no review fires (would have
      caught the original 'every turn calls spawn with no args' bug)
    - test_background_review_skill_trigger_fires_above_threshold:
      10 tool_iterations at threshold=10 → review fires with
      messages_snapshot=list, review_skills=True, counter resets
    - test_background_review_signature_never_breaks: regression guard
      asserting positional args are always empty and kwargs include
      messages_snapshot

  New TestReviewForkApiModeDowngrade class:
    - test_codex_app_server_parent_downgrades_review_fork: drives the
      real _spawn_background_review function (no mock at that level),
      asserts the review_agent gets api_mode='codex_responses' when
      the parent was codex_app_server.

Live-validated against real run_conversation:
  - Counter ticked from 0 to 5 after a 5-tool-iteration turn
  - _spawn_background_review fired exactly once with kwargs-only signature
  - review_skills=True, review_memory=False
  - messages_snapshot was 12 entries (5 assistant tool_calls + 5 tool
    results + 1 final assistant + initial system/user)
  - Counter reset to 0 after fire

170 codex-runtime tests, all green.

Docs: added a Self-improvement loop section to the codex runtime page
explaining both how the trigger logic stays equivalent and that the
review fork is auto-downgraded to codex_responses for the agent-loop
tools. Also clarified that apply_patch and update_plan ARE codex's
built-in tools (the previous version made it sound like they were
separate from 'codex's stuff' — they're not, all five tools listed
in 'What tools the model actually has' section 1 are codex built-ins).

* feat(codex-runtime): expose kanban tools through Hermes MCP callback

Kanban workers spawn as separate hermes chat -q subprocesses that read
the user's config.yaml. If model.openai_runtime: codex_app_server is set
globally (which is the whole point of opt-in), every dispatched worker
ALSO comes up on the codex runtime.

That mostly works — codex's built-in shell + apply_patch + update_plan
do the actual task work fine — but it had one critical break: the
worker handoff tools (kanban_complete, kanban_block, kanban_comment,
kanban_heartbeat) are Hermes-registered tools, not codex built-ins.
On the codex runtime, codex builds its own tool list and these never
reach the model, so the worker would do the work but not be able to
report back, hanging until the dispatcher's timeout escalates it as
zombie.

Fix: add all 9 kanban tools to the EXPOSED_TOOLS list in the Hermes
MCP callback. They dispatch statelessly through handle_function_call()
just like web_search and the others — they read HERMES_KANBAN_TASK
from env (set by the dispatcher), gate correctly (worker tools require
the env var, orchestrator tools require it unset), and write to
~/.hermes/kanban.db.

Why kanban tools work via stateless dispatch when delegate_task/memory/
session_search/todo don't: those four are listed in _AGENT_LOOP_TOOLS
(model_tools.py:493) and short-circuit in handle_function_call() with
'must be handled by the agent loop' — they need to mutate AIAgent's
mid-loop state. Kanban tools have no such requirement; they're pure
side-effect functions against the kanban.db plus state_meta.

Tools exposed:
  Worker handoff (require HERMES_KANBAN_TASK):
    kanban_complete, kanban_block, kanban_comment, kanban_heartbeat
  Read-only board queries:
    kanban_show, kanban_list
  Orchestrator (require HERMES_KANBAN_TASK unset):
    kanban_create, kanban_unblock, kanban_link

Tests:
  - test_kanban_worker_tools_exposed: complete/block/comment/heartbeat
    in EXPOSED_TOOLS (regression guard for the would-hang-worker bug)
  - test_kanban_orchestrator_tools_exposed: create/show/list/unblock/link

Docs:
  - New 'Workflow features' section in the docs page covering /goal,
    kanban, and cron behavior on this runtime
  - /goal: works fully via run_conversation feedback; only caveat is
    approval-prompt noise on long writes-heavy goals (mitigated by
    the default :workspace permission profile)
  - Kanban: enumerated which tools are reachable via the callback and
    why the env var propagates correctly through the codex subprocess
    to the MCP server subprocess
  - Cron: documented as 'not specifically tested' — same rules as the
    CLI apply since cron runs through AIAgent.run_conversation
  - Trade-offs table gained rows for /goal, kanban worker, kanban
    orchestrator

172/172 codex-runtime tests green (+2 from kanban tests).

* docs(codex-runtime): wire /codex-runtime into slash-commands ref + flag aux token cost

Three docs gaps caught during a final audit:

1. /codex-runtime was only in the feature docs page, not in the
   slash-commands reference. Added rows to both the CLI section and
   the Messaging section so users discover it where they'd look for
   slash command syntax.

2. CODEX_HOME and HERMES_KANBAN_TASK weren't in environment-variables.md.
   CODEX_HOME lets users redirect Codex CLI's config dir (the migration
   honors it). HERMES_KANBAN_TASK is set by the kanban dispatcher and
   propagates to the codex subprocess + the hermes-tools MCP subprocess
   so kanban worker tools gate correctly — documented as 'don't set
   manually' since it's an internal handoff.

3. Aux client behavior on this runtime. When openai_runtime=
   codex_app_server is on with the openai-codex provider, every aux
   task (title generation, context compression, vision auto-detect,
   session search summarization, the background self-improvement review
   fork) flows through the user's ChatGPT subscription by default.

   This is true for the existing codex_responses path too, but it's
   more visible / important here because users explicitly opted in for
   subscription billing. Added a 'Auxiliary tasks and ChatGPT
   subscription token cost' section to the docs page with a YAML
   example showing how to override specific aux tasks to a cheaper
   model (typically google/gemini-3-flash-preview via OpenRouter).

   Also documents how the self-improvement review fork gets
   auto-downgraded from codex_app_server to codex_responses by the
   fix earlier in this PR.

No code changes — pure docs. 172 codex-runtime tests still green.

* docs+test(codex-runtime): pin HOME passthrough, document multi-profile + CODEX_HOME

OpenClaw hit a real footgun in openclaw/openclaw#81562: when spawning
codex app-server they were synthesizing a per-agent HOME alongside
CODEX_HOME. That made every subprocess codex's shell tool launches
(gh, git, aws, npm, gcloud, ...) see a fake $HOME and miss the user's
real config files. They had to back it out in PR NousResearch#81562 — keep
CODEX_HOME isolation, leave HOME alone.

Audit confirms Hermes' codex spawn doesn't have this problem. We do
os.environ.copy() and only overlay CODEX_HOME (when provided) and
RUST_LOG. HOME passes through unchanged. But it was an emergent
property without a test pinning it, so adding a regression guard:

  test_spawn_env_preserves_HOME — confirms parent HOME survives intact
                                  in the subprocess env
  test_spawn_env_sets_CODEX_HOME_when_provided — confirms codex_home
                                                  arg still isolates
                                                  codex state correctly

Docs additions:

  'HOME environment variable passthrough' section — calls out the
  contract explicitly: CODEX_HOME isolates codex's own state, HOME
  stays user-real so gh/git/aws/npm/etc. find their normal config.
  Cites openclaw#81562 as the cautionary tale.

  'Multi-profile / multi-tenant setups' section — addresses the
  related concern: profiles share ~/.codex/ by default. For users who
  want per-profile codex isolation (separate auth, separate plugins),
  documents the manual CODEX_HOME=<profile-scoped-dir> approach.

  Explains why we DON'T auto-scope CODEX_HOME per profile: doing so
  would silently invalidate existing codex login state for anyone
  upgrading to this PR with tokens already at ~/.codex/auth.json.
  Opt-in is safer than surprising users.

174 codex-runtime tests (+2 from HOME guards), all green.

* fix(codex-runtime): TOML control-char escapes + atomic config.toml write

Two footguns caught in a final audit pass before merge.

Bug 1: TOML control characters not escaped

The _format_toml_value() helper escaped backslashes and double quotes
but passed literal control characters (\n, \t, \r, \f, \b) through
unchanged. TOML basic strings don't allow literal control characters
— a path or env var containing a newline would produce invalid TOML
that codex refuses to load.

Realistic exposure: pathological cases like a HERMES_HOME with a
trailing newline (env var concatenation accident), or a PYTHONPATH
with a tab from a multi-line shell heredoc.

Fix: escape all five TOML basic-string control sequences (\b \t \n
\f \r) in addition to \\ and \" that we already did. Order
matters — backslash must come first or the other escapes get
re-escaped.

Bug 2: config.toml write wasn't atomic

If the python process crashed between target.mkdir() and the
write_text() finishing, a half-written config.toml could be left
behind. On NFS / Windows / some FUSE mounts this is a real concern;
on ext4/APFS small writes are usually atomic in practice but not
guaranteed.

Fix: write to a tempfile.mkstemp() temp file in the same directory,
then Path.replace() (atomic same-dir rename on POSIX, ReplaceFile on
Windows). On rename failure, clean up the temp file so repeated
failed migrations don't pile up .config.toml.* files.

Tests:
  - test_string_with_newline_escaped — \n in value → \n in output
  - test_string_with_tab_escaped — \t in value → \t in output
  - test_string_with_other_controls_escaped — \r, \f, \b
  - test_windows_path_escaped_correctly — backslash doubling
  - test_atomic_write_no_temp_leak_on_success — no .config.toml.*
    left over after a successful write
  - test_atomic_write_cleanup_on_rename_failure — temp file removed
    when Path.replace raises (simulated disk full)

180 codex-runtime tests, all green (+6 from this commit).

Footguns audited but NOT fixed (with rationale):

- Concurrent migrations race. Two Hermes processes hitting
  /codex-runtime codex_app_server within seconds of each other could
  cause one writer to lose entries. Low probability (you'd have to
  enable from two surfaces simultaneously) and low impact (just re-run
  migration). Adding fcntl/msvcrt locking is more code than it's
  worth here. The atomic rename above means each individual write is
  consistent — only the merge step is racy.

- Codex protocol version drift. We pin MIN_CODEX_VERSION=0.125 and
  check at runtime but don't reject too-new versions. Right call —
  the protocol has been stable through 0.125 → 0.130. If OpenAI
  breaks it later we'd see the error in test_codex_app_server_runtime
  on CI before users hit it.
vKongv pushed a commit that referenced this pull request May 24, 2026
Three issues flagged by the Copilot review on this PR:

1. Double JSON emit on stage failure (Copilot #1, #2). When -Stage <name>
   ran a worker that threw, Invoke-Stage's finally emitted a JSON result
   frame AND the entry-point catch emitted a second error frame --
   producing two concatenated JSON objects on stdout and breaking the
   one-line-per-invocation contract that drivers parse against. Same
   issue applied to -Json mode on a full install (every stage's finally
   plus a final error frame missing duration_ms/skipped).

   Fix: Invoke-Stage's finally now sets $script:_StageEmittedErrorFrame
   when it emits a failure frame; the entry-point catch checks the flag
   and skips its own emit, still exit 1.

2. $prevEAP uninitialized on early try-block throw (Copilot #3). In
   Install-Uv, Test-Python, Test-Node's winget fallback,
   _Run-NpmInstall, and the playwright block, '$prevEAP =
   $ErrorActionPreference' lived as the first statement INSIDE the
   try. If anything between 'try {' and that line threw (Write-Info on
   an unusual host, the npx-finding loop, etc.), the catch's
   'if ($prevEAP) { ... }' restore was a no-op and EAP could remain
   relaxed.

   Fix: hoist '$prevEAP = $ErrorActionPreference' to the line
   immediately before 'try {' in all five sites. Catch's restore is
   now always meaningful regardless of where in the try the throw
   originated.

No change to Invoke-Stage's success path or to the four lint-clean EAP
sites (Test-Node was the only winget-related catch). All 19 metadata
smoke tests still pass.
cursor Bot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jun 19, 2026
…bound/outbound round-trip (NousResearch#48828)

* fix(relay): enable RELAY platform + normalize dial URL so hosted gateways actually connect

Three bugs blocked a self-provisioned hosted gateway from ever establishing its
inbound relay WS (found while standing up the live staging end-to-end). Each
masked the next; all three are needed for inbound to work.

1. RELAY platform never enabled in config.platforms (gateway/config.py).
   register_relay_adapter() puts the adapter in the platform_registry, but
   start_gateway()'s connect loop iterates self.config.platforms — which never
   contained Platform.RELAY. So the adapter was "registered" but never connected
   (logs showed "relay adapter registered" then "No messaging platforms
   enabled"). Fix: _apply_env_overrides now enables Platform.RELAY (mirroring
   relay_url into extra for the connected-checker) when GATEWAY_RELAY_URL (env)
   or gateway.relay_url (yaml) is set. Absent -> no RELAY entry (direct/
   single-tenant gateways unaffected).

2. URL scheme not converted for the WS dial (gateway/relay/ws_transport.py).
   The relay URL is configured once as the http(s):// base (used as-is for the
   provision POST), but websockets.connect rejects http(s):// with "scheme isn't
   ws or wss". Fix: _ws_dial_url converts https->wss / http->ws.

3. /relay path not appended (same helper). The connector mounts its
   WebSocketServer at path "/relay" and returns HTTP 400 on an upgrade to any
   other path. GATEWAY_RELAY_URL is the base (no /relay), so the dial hit "/"
   -> 400. Fix: _ws_dial_url ensures the path ends in /relay. Idempotent — a URL
   already carrying ws(s):// and/or /relay is unchanged, so provision's
   _provision_url (which derives /relay/provision from either form) still works.

Why the cross-repo E2E missed #2/#3: the stub connector binds ws://host:port and
its websockets.serve accepts ANY path, so neither the scheme nor the /relay path
was exercised. Real connector needs both.

Verified live on staging hermes-agent-stg-automated-perception-5054: after the
fixes the gateway logs "Connecting to relay..." -> "✓ relay connected" ->
"Gateway running with 1 platform(s)" against
wss://gateway-gateway.staging-nousresearch.com/relay, stable.

Tests: added _ws_dial_url scheme+path+idempotency cases (test_ws_transport.py)
and RELAY-platform-enablement cases for env + yaml + absent (test_config.py).
Full gateway/relay + config suites green (191 passed).

Relay-adapter lane. EXPERIMENTAL.

* fix(relay): re-attach guild_id to outbound so connector egress resolves the tenant

The final bug in the hosted-relay round-trip. Inbound worked end to end (Discord
-> connector -> bus -> agent WS -> agent runs -> reply), but the reply's egress
was declined by the connector: "discord egress declined: target not routed to an
onboarded tenant".

Cause: the connector's routedEgressGuard resolves the owning tenant from the
OUTBOUND action's metadata.guild_id (Discord's routing discriminator). The
gateway's generic delivery path builds outbound metadata via
run.py _thread_metadata_for_source, which only carries thread_id (and returns
None entirely for a non-threaded message) — so guild_id never reached the
connector, tenant resolution failed, and the shared bot refused to post.

Fix (relay-adapter-local, no perturbation of the generic delivery path or other
platforms): RelayAdapter learns chat_id -> guild_id from each inbound event
(_capture_scope) and re-attaches it to the outbound action's metadata in send()
(_with_scope) when not already present. No-op for chats we never saw inbound
(e.g. DMs) and never overwrites an explicit guild_id.

Verified live on staging hermes-agent-stg-automated-perception-5054: an
@mention in #general now produces a visible bot reply — full multi-tenant relay
round-trip (real Discord -> shared connector bot -> tenant routing -> agent WS ->
reply egress -> Discord).

Tests: _capture_scope/_with_scope reattach, no-scope no-op, explicit-guild_id
preserved (test_relay_adapter.py). Full relay + config suites green (160 passed).

Relay-adapter lane. EXPERIMENTAL.
cursor Bot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jun 21, 2026
…id (NousResearch#38763)

Context compression today rewrites the message list AND rotates the
session id — it ends the session, forks a parent_session_id child, and
renumbers the title (name -> name #2). That moving identity key is the
root cause of a whole bug cluster: /goal lost (NousResearch#33618), pending response
lost at the split (NousResearch#14238), orphan sessions (NousResearch#33907), TUI sid desync
(NousResearch#36777), FTS search gaps + duplicate sidebar entries (NousResearch#45117), null
continuation cwd (NousResearch#42228), and title-rename dead-ends (NousResearch#48989). It also
forced a large defensive apparatus (compression lock, contextvar/env/
logging triple-sync, orphan finalization, gateway SessionEntry
re-propagation, tip projection) whose only job is surviving a
mid-conversation id change.

Add a compression.in_place config flag (default False during rollout).
When True, compaction rewrites the transcript and rebuilds the system
prompt but keeps the SAME session_id: no end_session, no child row, no
title renumber, no contextvar/logging re-sync, no memory/context-engine
session-switch. The conversation keeps one durable id for life, like
Claude Code / Codex. Compaction is lossy by design — the pre-compaction
transcript is summarized away, not archived.

The rotation path is unchanged when the flag is off (moved verbatim into
an else branch). Staged rollout: this PR ships the option behind a
default-off flag for live validation; a follow-up flips the default and
deletes the now-redundant rotation machinery, superseding the 14 open
band-aid PRs in this area.

- hermes_cli/config.py: add compression.in_place (default False), documented
- agent/agent_init.py: resolve the flag -> agent.compression_in_place
- agent/conversation_compression.py: branch compress_context() on the flag
- tests/run_agent/test_in_place_compaction.py: in-place invariants +
  rotation regression guard + config default

The pre-flush of current-turn messages (NousResearch#47202) runs in BOTH modes, so no
boundary data loss. Prompt-cache invariant preserved: the system-prompt
rebuild is the same single sanctioned invalidation that already happens
during compaction — no NEW invalidation. Message alternation preserved.
cursor Bot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 21, 2026
… the relay (gateway half) (NousResearch#85796)

* feat(relay): live-card ops — native draft streaming + task cards over the relay (gateway half)

NS-658. Three additive ops within contract v1, emitted only when the
connector's negotiated descriptor advertises them:

  {op: draft, chat_id, draft_id, content, final, metadata}
  {op: task_card, chat_id, card_id, chunks, metadata}
  {op: task_card_stop, chat_id, card_id, metadata}

The gateway side is deliberately dumb: no platform API knowledge, no new
config keys. Slack mechanics (chat.startStream/appendStream/stopStream,
per-workspace feature-gate cache, send+edit fallback) live connector-side
where the platform adapter lives in the relay model.

Semantic bridge: base send_draft is Telegram-shaped (draft clears; final
is a separate send). Slack native streaming makes the stream THE message.
The adapter tracks the open draft per chat and converts the turn-final
send() into draft(final=true) so the connector seals the stream instead
of posting a duplicate; the stream ts returns as the message identity.
A failed frame disarms interception so the edit-based fallback's real
send goes through untouched.

BEHAVIOR CHANGE (deliberate): relay supports_draft_streaming() now
requires the descriptor flag AND the draft op. Flag-only was a latent
lie — send_draft inherited NotImplementedError, so a connector setting
the flag without the op would have crashed the stream consumer's draft
path. supported_ops stays fail-open for legacy (pre-contract) ops;
draft/task_card did not exist pre-contract and must not fail open.

Task cards ride NousResearch#85476's adapter-agnostic TurnRunner seam (hasattr on
send_native_task_card_progress); supports_native_task_cards() is the
descriptor probe. Connector half + E2E harness pair follow in the gg
repo.

* fix(relay): expose native_task_cards_enabled() on the relay adapter

Live-canary finding (Alice, staging): the TurnRunner's task-card lane
probes adapter.native_task_cards_enabled() (the native Slack adapter's
opt-in contract). The relay adapter only offered
supports_native_task_cards(), so the hasattr gate failed silently and
tool progress stayed on the text path — draft streaming worked, cards
never rendered. Alias it to the descriptor probe.

* fix(relay): match task-card methods to the TurnRunner's native keyword contract

Live-canary finding #2 (Alice, staging): gateway/run.py's card lane calls
send/stop_native_task_card_progress with the NATIVE Slack adapter's
signature (tasks/title/reply_to/metadata/fallback_text, keyword-only) —
PR 85796's relay methods took a positional card_id, so every call raised
TypeError('unexpected keyword argument reply_to') in the progress task,
repeatedly killing the card publisher (and the retry loop resent the
final delivery 4-5x). Card id now derives per turn thread
(turn:<reply_to>), thread_ts anchored like draft; title/fallback_text
accepted for parity, not forwarded (plan-mode stream renders chunks).

* fix(relay): one draft stream per turn for stream-is-the-message adapters

Live-canary finding #4 (Alice, staging): the stream consumer bumps
draft_id at every tool boundary so Telegram-shaped drafts animate each
text segment as a fresh preview. On relay Slack NATIVE streaming a new
draft_id opens a brand-new chat.startStream — the user saw one frozen
message per segment (stuck streaming cursor ▉, never sealed: only the
LAST stream gets the final=true seal) plus the real final; 5-6 cumulative
snapshots per turn. Adapters that mark draft_stream_is_message keep ONE
stream per turn: tool progress lives in the native task card, and the
connector's suffix-delta falls back to whole-text append on prefix
mismatch, so segments append cleanly. Telegram-shaped drafts keep the
per-segment bump.

* fix(relay): don't seal the native stream at tool boundaries — only the turn-final does

Live-canary finding #5 (Alice; supersedes the incomplete #4 which was
necessary but not sufficient). Root cause CONFIRMED by integration trace
(test_live_cards_flow_trace.py, real consumer semantics + real adapter +
stub transport): at every tool boundary the consumer calls
_send_or_edit(finalize=True), which skips the draft path and issues a
real send(); the relay adapter's seal-interception converts THAT into
draft(final=true) — sealing the stream once per segment. Timeline showed
3 seals for a 3-segment turn: exactly the frozen cumulative ▉ snapshots
seen live (the replaced stream never gets stopStream, keeping its cursor).

Fix: for draft_stream_is_message adapters, a segment-break finalize
(finalize=True, is_turn_final=False) stays ON the draft path as another
cumulative frame; only got_done (is_turn_final=True) falls through to
send() and seals. Telegram-shaped platforms unchanged. Trace test now
pins the invariant: ONE user-visible message per turn.

* fix(relay): strip the text cursor from native draft frames

Live-canary finding #6 (Alice) — the ACTUAL duplicate-content mechanism,
confirmed by full-flow scan of both sides' code + logs. The consumer
appends its text cursor (▉) to every non-final display_text tick. The
connector's stream sender diffs CUMULATIVE frames via prefix check:
'abc▉'.startsWith → 'abc def▉' is NEVER a prefix match (the cursor sits
mid-string), so deltaFor falls back to whole-text append on EVERY tick —
chat.appendStream stacks each full cumulative snapshot (cursor included)
into the ONE stream message. Exactly the observed thread: repeated
blocks, each ending in a frozen ▉, growing per tick.

Fixes #4/#5 were real (one stream per turn now) but this was the last
mechanism standing. Native streams render their own typing indicator, so
the text cursor is pure noise on this path: strip it from draft frames.
Prefix check now holds; every tick appends only its true suffix delta.

* fix(relay): seal-interception covers EVERY egress door, not just send()

Live-canary finding #7 (Alice): one duplication remained after #6 — the
stream froze mid-word with the live indicator (never sealed) and the
final posted as a separate message. Log receipt: 'Queued follow-up:
final text delivery confirmed; delivering explicit media before
continuing' — the turn's final went out via the DELIVERY RESOLVER lane
(gateway/delivery.py), which calls send_for_platform() DIRECTLY,
bypassing send() and its seal-interception. The open stream never
absorbed the final; it arrived as a plain 'send' op → chat.postMessage.

Fix: hoist the open-draft check to the top of send() (ahead of the
explicit-platform branch) AND add it to send_for_platform() — an open
native stream absorbs the turn-final regardless of which egress door it
arrives through. The stream IS the message.

* fix(relay): failed seal falls back to plain send (PR 85796 AI-review point 1)

A turn-final seal that fails at the transport must never swallow the
final answer: the stream consumer has already disabled the draft
transport for the run, so a failed _seal_open_draft returning
success=False meant the user got NOTHING. Both seal-interception sites
(send + send_for_platform) now fall through to the regular plain-send
path on seal failure, with a warning receipt. Also mitigates AI-review
point 2 (sticky _open_draft_by_chat after an abandoned turn): a stale
entry's failed seal no longer blocks the next turn's delivery.

* fix(relay): arm seal-interception optimistically; never disarm on ambiguous failure (audit G-D1)

Deep-audit defect G-D1 (HIGH): the outbound leg is at-most-once on the
wire but its ack channel is lossy — send_outbound timeout (30s) and
WS-drop 'failures' frequently mean the frame WAS delivered and the
connector stream is open. send_draft popped _open_draft_by_chat on any
failure, disarming seal-interception while the connector stream lived:
the turn-final went out as a plain send → orphaned mid-word stream +
complete duplicate final (intermittent; needs a drop/timeout inside the
draft window).

Fix: arm the entry BEFORE the transport call and keep it armed on
failure/exception. Safe in every case: sealing a non-existent stream
opens+seals a single complete message connector-side, and a truly failed
seal already falls back to plain send at both interception sites.
Stale-entry damage is self-healing (one warning + plain send).

* fix(relay): gateway-side sealed-draft tombstone — G-D1 arming must not resurrect sealed streams

Regression fix on G-D1 (live: 'worse than before' — escalating frozen
prefixes). Optimistic arming had no seal-awareness: a straggler frame
arriving AFTER the seal re-armed _open_draft_by_chat for the already-
sealed draft_id; the next send was converted to draft(final=true) on the
tombstoned connector key, which CLEARED the connector tombstone (final
frame = new-turn signal), re-opened a stream with cumulative content,
and left it frozen — repeating per straggler: 4-5 escalating frozen
snapshots. Mirror the connector: _sealed_draft_by_chat records the
sealed draft_id per chat (tombstoned BEFORE the seal's transport call);
send_draft for a sealed draft_id is a success no-op (content already in
the sealed message) and never arms. A new turn's fresh draft_id arms
normally.

* fix(relay): key stream/card state per (chat, turn anchor) — parallel turns must not collide (finding #10)

Live finding #10 (Alice; three concurrent turns in one flat DM): all
coordination state was keyed per CHAT on a one-active-turn assumption.
Three parallel turns produced: turn B's task card merged into turn A's
(both were card 'turn:root' — reply_to is None in flat DMs), B left
cardless, and _open/_sealed_draft_by_chat clobbered across writers (3x
duplicate finals on the last turn). Per-turn machinery was correct;
the keys were not.

Fix: _draft_key(chat, metadata) = chat + the turn's thread anchor
(inbound stamps thread_ts = event.thread_ts or ts on every top-level
message, so each turn has one even in flat DMs). draft arming, seal
tombstones, both interception sites, and the task-card id all derive
from the same anchor. New trace test pins two interleaved turns:
distinct cards, own-stream seals, no leaked plain send, no cross-turn
tombstone drops (289 tests green).

* fix(gateway): preserve cumulative native stream across tools

* fix(gateway): consumer-declared final — the seal carries the true final

Three composed fixes for the Slack live-cards duplicate-final class:

1. finish(final_text): TurnRunner passes the completed final_response
   (verifier footer, completion explainer included) as the authoritative
   finalize payload. The native-stream seal delivers the TRUE final, so
   post-stream mutation no longer forks a corrective plain send (#11).

2. Interim-send contract: commentary and segment-tail sends carry a
   gateway-internal _interim_send marker; relay seal-interception skips
   them at both egress doors. A mid-turn interim send can no longer seal
   the live stream and orphan the real final into a duplicate.

3. Queued-follow-up lane reconciles an unconfirmed final by EDITING the
   consumer's delivered message in place (sealed stream = regular
   message, chat.update live-verified); plain send only as fallback.
   This was the actual duplicate lane in the parallel canaries — every
   duplicated turn logged 'final stream delivery not confirmed; sending
   first response' (subagent-completion queued inbound), not parallelism.

Also: draft frames stay prefix-stable gateway-side (no fence-closing, no
segment state reset, no commentary reset for stream-is-the-message
adapters; MagicMock-safe 'is True' guards).

* test+docs: streaming-contract coverage completeness + maintenance guidelines

Coverage: two gaps closed on the consumer-declared-final contract —
(1) send_for_platform (the delivery-resolver egress door) honors the
_interim_send contract: no seal, marker stripped before the wire;
(2) finish(final_text) on a turn that never streamed does not adopt the
final (delivery ownership stays with the gateway's normal send path for
non-streaming models / tool-only turns).

Docs: AGENTS.md 'Known Pitfalls' gains the streaming delivery contract —
the four invariants of stream-is-the-message adapters (prefix-stable
frames, consumer-declared final, interim-send marker, reconcile-by-edit),
each traced to its live incident, plus the live-probed Slack streaming
API ground truth and the MagicMock 'is True' guard-style note.

* fix(relay): seal transport failure must never silently lose the final (review B1)

Two halves of one silent-loss path, live-probed on the review branch:

1. adapter: _seal_open_draft did not catch transport exceptions. A socket
   drop at seal time raised out of send(), skipping the fail-open plain
   send entirely. Now: retry the SAME idempotent final frame once (the
   connector's sealed-key tombstone returns the original stream ts for a
   repeated final — a retry can never open a second stream or duplicate),
   then report failure so the caller's fail-open path runs.

2. consumer: the turn-final retry (elif not _already_sent) called
   _send_or_edit with finalize=False, which re-entered the DRAFT-FRAME
   branch. Its no-op dedupe compared the adopted final against the last
   unsealed frame, matched, and returned True with ZERO transport calls —
   final_response_sent went green, delivered_final_matches reconciled,
   the gateway suppressed its fallback, and the user never received the
   answer. finalize=True keeps this retry out of the draft branch.

Regression suite: tests/gateway/test_relay_seal_failure.py (3 tests).
Mutation evidence in follow-up verification: reverting either half sends
the suite red.

* fix(relay): draft ids unique across gateway incarnations (review B3)

The relay connector tombstones sealed streams by (channel, draft_id) and
keeps up to 512 of them; they outlive the gateway process. Relay gateways
are disposable BY DESIGN (scale-to-zero), and _draft_id_counter restarted
at zero every incarnation — so the first turns after every scale-from-zero
in a recently-active channel replayed already-sealed wire identities. The
connector answered those frames straight out of the old tombstone: zero
Slack API calls, the OLD message ts returned as the new turn's identity,
the new answer silently dropped while gateway-side flags recorded success.

Seed the counter from wall-clock milliseconds at process start. Ids stay
plain ints within the existing contract op; incarnations cannot overlap
for realistic turn counts and restart gaps.

Regression: tests/gateway/test_draft_id_restart_uniqueness.py — the seed
test fails on the old code (seed 0 is not epoch-scale).

* fix(relay): stream/card state keyed per TURN, not per thread anchor (review B2)

The thread anchor is the wrong coordination identity — simultaneously:

- too coarse: two parallel turns replying INSIDE ONE Slack thread share
  thread_ts. Live-probed on the review branch: turn A's final sealed turn
  B's stream with A's content while A's own stream stayed open, and B's
  final degraded to a plain send.
- too fragile: a flat DM with no thread metadata degraded to the bare
  chat id, re-creating the original finding-#10 collision the anchor was
  meant to fix.

_draft_key now prefers the triggering inbound message id (message_id /
reply_to_message_id — per-turn by construction; the gateway's Slack
thread metadata and the consumer's send path both stamp it), falling back
to the thread anchor, then the bare chat. The consumer stamps the same
reply_to_message_id on draft frames so frames and the turn-final resolve
to one key. Task-card ids share the derivation via _card_key (one helper
for send AND stop, so the stop always hits the stream the send opened).

Legacy resolver-lane callers with placement-only metadata still seal via
_match_open_draft's fallback — but ONLY when exactly one stream is open.
With several open, an identity-less send stays a plain send: a duplicate
message is recoverable, sealing someone else's stream is not.

Regression: tests/gateway/relay/test_relay_turn_keying.py (7 tests).

* fix(relay): stream-is-the-message is a Slack semantic, gate it on the descriptor (review B4)

draft_stream_is_message was hardcoded True on the relay adapter class,
i.e. for EVERY relay platform. The base send_draft contract is
Telegram-shaped — the draft clears client-side and the final arrives as
a separate real send that becomes the history message. With the flag
forced on, any non-Slack connector advertising the draft op had its
turn-final intercepted into draft(final=true): probed on the review
branch with a telegram descriptor, the op stream was
[draft(final=false), draft(final=true)] and NO send — no history message
would ever be posted.

Gate the flag on the negotiated descriptor platform (slack), and skip
arming seal-interception entirely when it is off. A future platform with
genuine stream-is-the-message native streaming should advertise it via
the descriptor rather than widening the platform check by guesswork.

Regression: tests/gateway/relay/test_relay_stream_semantics_gating.py
(4 tests: gating both ways, telegram final is a real send, slack final
still seals).

* fix(gateway): mark every mid-turn status lane interim — heartbeats must not seal the stream (review B5)

Seal-interception treats the first unmarked send to an armed (chat, turn)
key as the turn-final. The consumer's own interim lanes (commentary, tail
flush) carry _interim_send, but four gateway-side lanes that fire DURING
a streaming turn did not:

- long-running heartbeat (default every 180s — probed live: at 3 minutes
  it sealed the live stream with '⏳ Working — 3 min', the real final
  posted as a duplicate, and later frames were silently swallowed by the
  seal tombstone)
- inactivity warning
- plain-text approval fallback (button lane failed)
- background-review notice

Add _interim_metadata() beside _non_conversational_metadata and wrap all
four call sites. The marker is gateway-internal; the relay adapter strips
it before the wire (existing behavior, pinned by test).

Note for follow-up: the opt-out shape remains fragile — any FUTURE
unmarked mid-turn send lane re-creates this bug. Inverting the contract
(explicitly mark the one turn-final send) is the durable fix but touches
every adapter's final-delivery path; deliberately kept out of this
review-fix series.

Regression: tests/gateway/test_interim_send_lanes.py (4 tests).

* fix(gateway): interrupted/incomplete turns must not adopt the diagnostic as the stream final (review B6)

The finish(final_text) adoption gate checked only 'not failed', but the
interrupt/abort returns in agent/conversation_loop.py are
{completed: False, interrupted: True, final_response: 'Operation
interrupted during …'} with NO failed key. Adopting that diagnostic:

1. sealed the user's streamed partial answer over with the interrupt
   text (stream-is-the-message: the seal rewrites the whole message), and
2. recorded the diagnostic as the turn-final payload, so
   delivered_final_matches reconciled and the gateway suppressed its own
   error-delivery path — the diagnostic became the ONLY thing delivered.

Enumerated all 27 final_response-bearing return shapes in
conversation_loop.py: every non-happy-path shape carries completed:
False (several with a diagnostic final_response and neither failed nor
interrupted — retry exhaustion, truncation, codex-incomplete); the happy
path routes through turn_finalizer.finalize_turn (completed=True). Gate
is therefore: not failed AND not interrupted AND completed is not False.
Results lacking the completed key entirely (older callers/test doubles)
keep the previous behavior.

Regression: tests/gateway/test_stream_final_adoption_gate.py (6 tests,
incl. a source-level pin on the run.py call site).

* fix(relay): task-card transport failures degrade to failed SendResults (review B7)

send_native_task_card_progress and stop_native_task_card_progress let
transport exceptions escape. The stop runs inside the progress loop's
finally block on the turn-cleanup path, and the post-cancel awaits in
gateway/run.py caught only CancelledError — a socket drop during a card
publish/stop therefore aborted cleanup BEFORE the final-delivery
bookkeeping ran.

Three layers, outermost defends any adapter:
- both adapter methods catch transport exceptions and return failed
  SendResults (progress is advisory; the TurnRunner's text fallback
  already handles failure results)
- the progress loop's finally wraps the stop (best-effort; the connector
  seals orphaned card streams on its own via recycling/eviction)
- the cleanup awaits log-and-continue on non-cancellation errors so
  final-delivery bookkeeping always runs

Regression: tests/gateway/relay/test_relay_task_card_failures.py.

* fix(relay): a dying turn seals its native stream instead of orphaning it (review B8)

Stale-generation exits (/new, /stop mid-stream) and cancellations
returned from the consumer's run() with the native stream still open:

- the Slack message kept its live streaming indicator forever (the
  cancellation best-effort edit only runs when _message_id exists, and
  the native draft path deliberately keeps it None);
- the adapter's armed interception state survived the turn, so the next
  turn on the same key could inherit it and seal a dead draft_id.

New adapter op abandon_open_draft(chat, content): seals in place with
the text already on screen (the consumer passes its last delivered
frame) — the seal adds nothing and claims nothing; delivery flags are
never set, so the gateway's normal paths still own whatever happens
next. Best-effort by contract (failure reported, never raised); the
connector reaps truly orphaned streams via recycling/eviction.

The consumer calls it from both death paths: the stale-generation early
return and the CancelledError handler.

Regression: tests/gateway/test_stream_abandon_on_turn_death.py (4 tests,
incl. the next-turn-inheritance hazard).

* fix(relay): bound the draft/seal coordination dicts (review M1)

_sealed_draft_by_chat's key embeds a per-turn identity, so every
completed turn wrote a permanent entry — unbounded growth for the life
of a long-running gateway process (the docstring said 'one entry per
chat', which stopped being true when the key gained the turn anchor).
_open_draft_by_chat could grow the same way via abandoned entries.

FIFO-evict both at 512 entries — the same idiom as the sibling bounded
cache (_auto_thread_by_chat, capped at 256) and the same size as the
connector's own tombstone store. The straggler window the tombstone
exists for is seconds long; FIFO is more than enough.

Regression: tests/gateway/relay/test_relay_state_bounds.py.

* fix(relay): explicit connector rejection disarms interception; exceptions stay armed (review P3)

The G-D1 optimistic-arming change silently dropped disarm-on-failure
entirely: after an EXPLICIT connector rejection (success=False result —
not a transport ambiguity), interception stayed armed even though the
stream consumer disables the draft transport on that failure and falls
back to edit-based streaming. Its turn-final would then be converted
into a seal on a stream the connector just told us is unusable.
test_draft_failure_result_propagates claimed to cover this ('must NOT
leave seal-interception armed') but passed for an unrelated reason: the
stub's canned failure also failed the SEAL, whose fail-open path did the
plain send.

Split the two semantics and pin each honestly:
- explicit rejection (result success=False): disarm — turn-final is a
  real send (test_draft_failure_result_propagates, now testing what its
  comment says)
- transport exception: ambiguous, stay armed — turn-final still seals
  (test_draft_transport_exception_keeps_interception_armed, the G-D1
  contract)

Also corrects commit ba3a24a's claim ('a failed frame disarms
interception so the edit-based fallback's real send goes through
untouched') to hold again for the rejection case it described.

* fix(relay): lost acks are ambiguous, not rejections — on the RESULT channel too (review r2, finding 1)

The production ws transport does not raise on ack timeout — it returns
{"success": False, "error": "relay outbound timed out"}. The round-1
ambiguity handling keyed entirely on the exception channel, so the shape
production actually produces was misclassified as a definite connector
rejection. Probed on the head:

- lost SEAL ack: skipped the idempotent retry, fell straight to a plain
  send — duplicate final whenever the seal had actually applied;
- lost FRAME ack: the round-1 disarm-on-rejection fired — interception
  disarmed, frozen native stream beside a plain final. This re-created
  the original G-D1 ambiguous-ack defect on the result channel.

Contract now spans both channels:

- transport: the ack-timeout branch tags ambiguous=True. The fail-fast
  branches (closing / not connected) never sent anything and stay
  unmarked — they are definite non-delivery.
- adapter frame path: ambiguous results keep interception armed (same
  as exceptions); only definite rejections disarm.
- adapter seal path: one shared _attempt() classifier — exception and
  ambiguous result both mean "unknown"; the SAME idempotent frame is
  retried once (connector tombstone returns the original stream ts for
  a repeated final). Only after both attempts stay ambiguous does the
  caller's fail-open plain send run: a possible duplicate after double
  ack loss beats a silent loss, and double ack loss on one socket
  almost always means the transport is down for the plain send too.

Regression: tests/gateway/relay/test_relay_ack_ambiguity.py (6 tests,
incl. a source-of-truth check that the transport tags the timeout branch
and leaves fail-fast branches unmarked).

* fix(relay): stream semantics + draft capability resolve per CHAT, not per primary (review r2, finding 2)

One RelayAdapter fronts N platforms (Phase 1.5): descriptors accumulate
per platform on the transport and egress is tagged per chat — but the
round-1 gate keyed draft_stream_is_message and supports_draft_streaming()
off the PRIMARY scalar descriptor. Probed on the head:

- Slack primary + Telegram chat: the Telegram chat's turn-final was
  intercepted into draft(final=true) — no real Telegram history message;
- Telegram primary + Slack chat: the Slack chat was denied native
  streaming entirely.

Resolve both through _descriptor_for_chat — the same per-chat machinery
max_message_length already uses (added for the identical class of bug:
the primary's 39000-char cap over-sending into Discord 400s):

- new stream_is_message_for_chat(chat_id) on the adapter; arming and
  NotImplementedError gating use it. The class attribute remains as the
  single-platform value and legacy-probe fallback.
- supports_draft_streaming() gains an optional chat_id kwarg (base
  signature updated; single-platform adapters ignore it). The consumer
  passes chat_id with a TypeError fallback for out-of-tree adapters.
- the consumer's four draft_stream_is_message reads collapse into one
  _stream_is_message() helper that prefers the per-chat probe
  (class-resolved, MagicMock-safe) over the attribute.

Platform-name inference ("slack") stays deliberate: a descriptor-level
semantic field is the right eventual contract but is a cross-repo wire
change — noted for the gg follow-up so future platforms advertise the
semantic explicitly.

Regression: tests/gateway/relay/test_relay_multiplatform_semantics.py
(5 tests: both starvation directions, scalar fallback, per-chat
capability gate).

* fix(gateway): split delivery + authoritative footer reconciles by suffix, not full resend (review r2, finding 3)

The _FINAL_TEXT adoption guard refuses wholesale adoption on split turns
— correct (NousResearch#78541: sealed heads would repeat inside the tail) but it was
absolute: a post-split verifier footer never entered the ledger,
delivered_final_matches() reported a mismatch, and the gateway resent
the ENTIRE body+footer after the split chunks (the #11 duplicate class,
one level up).

When the authoritative final strictly prefix-extends the split ledger,
the missing suffix is the only undelivered content: append it to the
live tail and the ledger, so the finalize carries it and the recorded
payload reconciles. Non-prefix rewrites keep the full-resend fallback —
a rewrite cannot be patched onto sealed heads.

Regression: tests/gateway/test_split_final_suffix_reconcile.py (3 tests:
suffix rides the tail + reconciles, rewrite still mismatches, unsplit
adoption unchanged).

* fix(relay): cancellation mid-seal restores open state so abandon can close the stream (review r2, finding 4)

_seal_open_draft pops the open entry and writes the local tombstone
BEFORE awaiting transport I/O — correct ordering for the straggler race,
but CancelledError is not an Exception: a cancel during the await
bypassed all failure handling, leaving the remote stream live (visible
streaming indicator until connector eviction) while the local state said
'nothing open'. The consumer's abandon pass — added for exactly this
turn-death case — found nothing to close and no-oped.

On CancelledError: restore the open entry, drop the premature tombstone
(only if it is still ours), re-raise. The abandon path then seals the
stream in place with the on-screen text.

Regression: tests/gateway/relay/test_relay_seal_cancellation.py (2
tests: state restoration, and end-to-end cancel→abandon→remote seal).

* fix(relay): thread anchors are placement, not turn identity — revive the placement-only fallback (review r2, finding 5)

_match_open_draft's single-open-stream fallback was dead for its primary
intended callers: metadata carrying thread_ts/thread_id (placement-only
resolver lanes) was classified as having 'turn identity', so those sends
never reached the fallback — probed: a plain final posted beside the
still-open turn-keyed stream.

Only per-turn MESSAGE ids are identity now. Thread-anchored and bare
callers share the fallback: absorb into the chat's open stream when
EXACTLY one is open; stay a plain send when several are (duplicate is
recoverable, wrong-stream seal is not). Callers WITH a message id whose
key misses never fall back — their identity is authoritative and a miss
means the stream belongs to a different turn.

Regression: 4 new tests in test_relay_turn_keying.py (thread-anchored
seal, both ambiguous-stay-plain shapes, id-mismatch never steals).

* fix(relay): random process nonce for draft-id seeding (review r2, follow-up 6)

The epoch-millisecond seed (round-1 B3 fix) mitigates the restart-replay
class but is not a uniqueness guarantee: two gateways starting in the
same millisecond, a forked process inheriting the class state, or a
clock step backwards can all mint colliding wire identities against the
connector's per-(channel, draft_id) tombstone store.

Seed from secrets.randbits(49) instead: collision probability negligible,
no clock dependence, and ids + realistic per-process turn counts stay
comfortably inside the connector's JS number range (draft_id?: number,
2^53). Regression test now spawns two real interpreters and asserts
their seeds differ — the exact scale-to-zero restart shape, and both
start within the same second so a clock-locked seed would fail it.

* fix(relay): stamp per-turn Slack egress identity — cache is fallback only (R3-5)

The connector (gateway-gateway#210) fills chat.startStream's
recipient_user_id / recipient_team_id — required by Slack when
streaming to a channel — from metadata.user_id / metadata.scope_id.
The gateway stamped only slack_team_id per-turn and left user_id (and
scope_id) to RelayAdapter._with_scope, whose per-chat caches are keyed
on chat_id alone and overwritten by every inbound message: with users
U1 and U2 running overlapping turns in one channel, U2's arrival
overwrote the cache before U1's stream opened, and U1's stream carried
U2 as recipient_user_id.

_thread_metadata_for_source now stamps scope_id and user_id from the
turn's OWN source (setdefault — explicit values win), so identity is
turn-scoped data on the wire. _with_scope is unchanged and fill-only:
the caches keep serving restart/synthetic sends that carry no per-turn
identity, which is all they were ever safe for.

Mutation evidence: reverting the run.py hunk sends
test_thread_metadata_stamps_per_turn_user_and_scope and
test_concurrent_turns_carry_their_own_identity red; restore returns
green. The _with_scope fill-only tests pass on both trees (existing
correct behavior, now pinned against regression).

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Co-authored-by: Ben Barclay <ben@nousresearch.com>
cursor Bot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 21, 2026
…er-bot Sessions browser (NousResearch#90732)

Symptom: switching between bots forked a brand-new "Bot Chat" for the
returned-to bot on EVERY switch, burying the user's real forever-chat
(one report: a 930-message chat displaced by 7 forks in one morning).

Root cause is a self-perpetuating loop between three parties:
- state.db enforces UNIQUE(title): the first fork permanently squats
  the "Bot Chat" title; every later mint's title request is silently
  dropped by set_session_title (returns 0, no error to the caller).
- The post-turn LLM auto-titler then names the untitled fork from its
  kickoff content ("Assistant introduction request #2", ...).
- openBotCanonicalChat's identity check is title-string matching, so
  the renamed fork reads as "not plumbing" -> corrupted metadata ->
  clear pin -> mint again. Grandfathered pre-convention chats (real
  history, derived titles) hit the same branch and are forked away
  from immediately.

Fix, two invariants:
1. Adopt-before-mint: createCanonicalChat first scans the profile via
   session.list include_hidden:true for an existing "Bot Chat" row and
   re-pins it instead of creating. The UNIQUE index makes this an exact
   registry lookup (at most one match), not a heuristic. Older gateways
   without include_hidden find nothing and fall through to mint.
2. A pin that resolves to a NON-plumbing session carrying real history
   is the user's conversation - keep it and open it (title drift is
   metadata damage, not ownership loss). Only a pin resolving to an
   EMPTY stray draft is treated as corrupted and replaced (which now
   goes through adoption first).

Also removes the right-click -> Sessions per-bot stored-session browser
(ProfileSessionsWorkspace and its atoms/query/rows). Bot Mode's product
contract is ONE forever-chat per bot; a browser listing every hidden
plumbing session contradicts that and confused users into opening dead
forks. The Sessions workspace test goes with it; the include_hidden
source-shape test now pins the adoption scan instead, and a new suite
(canonical-chat-adopt-before-mint.test.mjs) covers both invariants plus
the older-gateway fallback.
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