docs/ was not the documentation site; it was a grab bag of long-form
design notes, wire contracts and observability guides that landed with
feature PRs because their authors needed somewhere to put them. Root
AGENTS.md already says long-form dev docs live in
website/docs/developer-guide/; this moves the 14 living documents there
(or to the matching user-guide section) so they are published, searchable
and linked from the sidebar instead of being found by grep only.
Developer guide: micro-compaction, gateway-session-lifecycle (was
session-lifecycle), state-db-recovery, multiplexing-gateway,
chronos-managed-cron-contract, relay-connector-contract, observer-hooks
(was observability/README), gateway-monitoring (observability/monitoring),
relay-shared-metrics, middleware, streaming-tts, billing-lifecycle.
User guide: egress/network-isolation (was security/network-egress-
isolation), features/kanban-multi-gateway (was kanban/multi-gateway).
Each page got title/description frontmatter and a sidebar entry; repo-
relative links became site links or GitHub blob URLs; two MDX brace
hazards escaped. Every in-tree pointer (module docstrings, config
comments, the relay conformance test's Path, the monitoring-doc test,
gateway-internals, cron-internals, kanban docs, .dockerignore, AGENTS.md)
now names the new location. `docusaurus build` passes with no unresolved
links on the moved pages.
CLI `_rewind_persisted_user_turn`, TUI `_rewind_active_session_history` and gateway
`rewind_session` each re-ran get_active_message_ids -> get_messages_as_conversation ->
split_user_originated_turn -> rewind_to_message with their own warm/durable comparison
helpers and three different out-of-range contracts (RuntimeError / ValueError / None).
The durable transcript is the authority for a rewind, so the implementation now lives
with the data: `SessionDB.rewind_user_turn` (hermes_state_rewind.py) with one typed
out-of-range error (`RewindTargetUnavailableError`). Surfaces keep only lock, eviction
and rendering glue and map that error to their own message.
Record why the cache needs a third bound and what the pressure pass will and
will not shed, so an operator tuning agent.agent_cache knows which knob to
reach for. Adds the config keys to the session-lifecycle appendix and a user
guide section covering the "auto" cgroup-derived budget.
#60194 flipped SessionResetPolicy's default to mode: none, but
cli-config.yaml.example still shipped session_reset.mode: both. Every
install path (install.sh, install.ps1, docker stage2-hook, hermes
doctor) copies the template verbatim to ~/.hermes/config.yaml, so fresh
installs got an EXPLICIT mode: both that overrides the code default —
users hit 24h-idle resets with 'nothing' in their config enabling it.
- cli-config.yaml.example: session_reset.mode both -> none, comments
rewritten to describe auto-reset as opt-in
- docs/session-lifecycle.md: appendix example updated to match
- tests/gateway/test_config.py: invariant tests — template seed, absent
config, and mode-less session_reset block all resolve to mode none;
explicit opt-in still honored
Unifies the two gateway subsystems that were fighting each other: the
'never lose a session' recovery machinery (#54878 stale-route self-heal,
find_latest_gateway_session_for_peer reopening agent_close/ws_orphan_reap
rows) and the session reset/expiry machinery (expiry watcher, /new,
/resume, resume_pending freshness gate).
The unified contract:
- INTENTIONAL boundaries (expiry finalization, auto-reset, /new,
/resume switch) are recorded durably via promote_to_session_reset(),
which upgrades accidental recoverable end_reasons (agent_close,
ws_orphan_reap) to the explicit boundary while preserving other
explicit reasons (compression, etc.). Recovery then correctly refuses
to resurrect them.
- ACCIDENTAL ends (crash, cleanup bug, mistaken reaper) stay
recoverable — genuine crash recovery is untouched.
On top of the cherry-picked contributor commits:
- promote_to_session_reset widened to ws_orphan_reap + parameterized
reason so auto-reset paths stay auditable (idle/daily/suspended/
resume_pending_expired) (#61220, #61993, #63539)
- get_or_create_session auto-reset, reset_session (/new), and
switch_session (/resume) all write through the promote path — the
first-reason-wins end_session no-op could previously leave a reset
session resurrectable behind a stale agent_close row (#61993)
- resume_pending freshness gate now honors session_reset.mode=none:
explicit opt-out of automatic resets also opts out of the zombie
gate (#61052)
- resume recovery note extracted to build_resume_recovery_note() and
made adapter-aware via a new interactive_resume capability flag:
webhook/api_server auto-resume turns now CONTINUE the interrupted
task instead of emitting an unanswerable 'session restored'
acknowledgement that abandoned the work (#57056)
- tests updated to call the real note builder instead of mirroring it
E2E-validated against a real SessionDB + SessionStore in a temp
HERMES_HOME: expiry->agent_close->no-resurrection, /new promote,
crash recovery preserved, mode=none opt-out, routing-table flag sync.
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