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Ben Barclay 613849c190 fix(telemetry): close the consent window on the config transition
Fourth independent review. Two more consent leaks, both reproduced through
the real relay entry point before and after the fix. Both are failures of
my own round-3 fix, which recorded revocation in the wrong place.

BLOCKER 1 - revoking while idle recorded nothing. _record_revocation lived
inside send_pending's loop, but _send_exported_packages returns early when
send is false, before a sender is ever constructed. The dominant case is a
user turning sending off while no pass is running, so the loop that was
meant to observe the revocation could never run. Reproduced: 6 periods
collected during a refused window were transmitted on re-enable.

The window now closes on the observed config EDGE, before the early return.
Last-seen send state is persisted because each hook fires in a fresh
process, so a true->false transition is only visible by comparison. The
rising edge also opens the window explicitly: the sender only runs when
there is something to send, so a user who opts in and out before any
package exists would otherwise have no window for record_revoked to close.

BLOCKER 2 - turning COLLECTION off never recorded revocation. The
not-enabled branch in setup.py force-set send=false and returned without
calling _record_send_consent_change, so `hermes tools` -> disable shared
metrics silently dropped consent while leaving the window open. Same
retroactive release on re-enable. Both consent surfaces now record, and
setup keeps the relay's edge detector in step.

Also, from the same review's mutation sweep:
- the scheme check is now pinned as an allowlist. Replacing the http test
  with `if True` survived the entire suite, because every non-http case
  targeted a REMOTE host where the loopback branch rejects anyway. Only a
  non-http scheme on loopback distinguishes the two. Shipped behaviour was
  already correct; nothing guarded it.
- A.3 no longer claims rotation bounds long-term linkability outright.
  Measured against 11 real packages: resource is a stable low-entropy
  tuple and periods are contiguous across a rotation, so for a RARE
  configuration those can bridge windows. The honest claim is that
  rotation raises the cost, not that it makes correlation impossible.

Two mutants are documented as unkillable rather than papered over with
tests that only appear to cover them: the _defer clamp is unreachable from
any current caller, and widening the falling-edge check to an
unconditional else is behaviourally equivalent because record_revoked is
idempotent and no-ops without an open window.

An earlier version of the anti-spurious-revocation test could not fail
either - it used a never-consented store, where record_revoked no-ops
regardless. Rewritten to opt in, revoke, re-enable, and then assert that a
steady enabled state does not re-close the reopened window.

259 tests pass. Staging E2E re-run: both packages 202.
2026-08-27 09:47:47 +10:00
Ben Barclay 49757d5e39 fix(telemetry): address review findings on the shared-metrics sender
Independent review found the claim mechanism did not work. Reproduced
against the real store: two senders POSTed the same package.

The claim wrote next_attempt_at = now, but selection requires
next_attempt_at <= now, so a concurrent pass matched the same row
immediately. It now writes a LEASE INTO THE FUTURE
(_CLAIM_LEASE_SECONDS), which is what actually excludes another pass,
and expires by itself if a process dies mid-send. _mark is additionally
guarded on send_state so a straggler whose lease lapsed cannot
overwrite a completed send back to pending.

The old concurrency test could not fail: it raised AssertionError from
inside a transport, and _send_one catches every exception as a
retryable transport error. It now records what the second pass saw.

Also from review:

- shutdown() never joined the send thread; the join was only wired into
  deactivate(). A short-lived CLI therefore killed an in-flight send at
  exit, on the only cadence this feature has.
- Removed HERMES_TELEMETRY_ENDPOINT. AGENTS.md reserves HERMES_* for
  secrets, and a behavioural override here was a consent hazard: an
  inherited variable could silently redirect telemetry a user agreed to
  send to Nous. The staging E2E writes the endpoint into its throwaway
  profile instead, which also exercises the real config path.
- Added the  shared-metrics toggle that AGENTS.md requires
  as the third opt-in surface, delegating to the setup prompt so the
  consent rules stay in one place.
- Non-429 4xx (401/403/404/413/422) are now permanent. Only 400 was,
  so a wrong path or oversized body retried every 15 minutes for 30
  days until retention pruned it.
- The opt-in day is stamped when the user consents, not on the first
  send pass, which silently dropped the opt-in day whenever the next
  export crossed midnight UTC.
- gzip now uses mtime=0. The embedded timestamp made two sends of one
  package differ on the wire, so the 'byte-identical retry' E2E was
  comparing parsed bodies and could not have caught it. It now compares
  raw request bytes.
- Reconciled the three stale claims in relay-shared-metrics.md that
  said no remote-delivery path exists.

233 tests pass (was 213). Staging E2E re-run through the config path:
both packages 202, and the service logged both objects written to S3.
2026-08-26 16:31:52 +10:00
Ben Barclay e5180ab3df feat(telemetry): add opt-in send config and send-state columns
Step 1+2 of the shared-metrics exporter.

Config: telemetry.shared_metrics.send (default false) and .endpoint
(default production), resolved by a new shared_metrics_send_config
module. Precedence is HERMES_TELEMETRY_ENDPOINT > config > default; the
env var exists so the live staging E2E never has to mutate a user's
config. send requires enabled and never implies it — that combination
is a misconfiguration the user believes is working, so it logs an ERROR
once per process rather than silently doing nothing. Plaintext
endpoints are refused unless the host is loopback, so a typo cannot
send telemetry in clear text.

Per AGENTS.md, outbound telemetry needs a user-facing opt-in, so
setup_telemetry now prompts for sending as a second, separate question
and force-disables send when collection is turned off.

Storage: six additive nullable columns on package_outbox for send
bookkeeping. The store schema version deliberately does NOT move —
_ensure_schema_in_transaction raises on any version it does not
recognise and has no forward-compatibility branch, so bumping it would
hard-fail an older Hermes, a second profile on an older build, or a
rollback, against the same file. Old readers select named columns and
never SELECT *, so the additions are invisible to them.

Also corrects the two places that promised telemetry is never uploaded
(config_defaults comment and cli-config.yaml.example); leaving them
would make them false privacy statements once sending ships.

Tests: 26 covering config precedence, the enabled/send relationship,
transport safety, fresh-database creation, upgrade from a pre-send
database (rows preserved, version pinned, idempotent), and that the
shipped export query still runs. Mutation-checked: bumping the schema
version fails 5 of them.
2026-08-26 15:39:47 +10:00