`scripts/run_tests.sh tests/<dir>/` is how a change gets its regression
coverage run, so a test filed under the wrong directory is a test nobody
runs when that code changes. Two kinds of drift had accumulated.
Parallel directories for one source package, folded into the mirror:
tests/acp -> tests/acp_adapter (its __init__/conftest move with it)
tests/cli -> tests/hermes_cli (prompt_toolkit fixture merged into
hermes_cli/conftest.py)
tests/run_agent -> tests/agent (backoff fixture becomes
agent/conftest.py)
tests/relay -> tests/gateway/relay
tests/state -> tests/hermes_state
246 loose files at tests/ root, routed by the package they import/patch:
hermes_cli, hermes_state, agent, gateway, tools, plugins, tui_gateway, cron.
Installer and desktop-update script tests go to tests/scripts/{install,
desktop_update}/. 43 tests of root-level modules (batch_runner, utils,
hermes_constants, packaging) stay at the root.
Filenames drop their issue numbers (95 files: test_89315_x.py -> test_x.py);
the number stays in the module docstring where it has context.
Collisions: test_cli_skin_integration.py existed in both tests/ and tests/cli
with different subsets — merged into one (10 tests, all kept);
run_agent/test_pre_compress_memory_context.py -> agent/..._handoff.py;
tests/test_account_usage.py -> agent/test_account_usage_fetch.py;
tests/test_web_server.py -> hermes_cli/test_web_server_ws_ping.py.
Deleted: test_minisweagent_path.py (empty since PR #2804),
test_model_picker_scroll.py (tested a private copy of the logic, imported
nothing), test_process_loop_event_loop_warning.py (asserted asyncio behaviour,
imported nothing from Hermes).
Repo-root path arithmetic (Path(__file__).parents[N], dirname chains) is
bumped for the 202 files that changed depth and verified by evaluating every
such expression against the new location. classify_changes' desktop-updater
lane prefix, tests-os.yml's ignore glob and every in-tree path comment follow
the moves. tests/test_tests_tree_layout.py keeps the tree from drifting back.
The install method (docker/git/pip/...) describes the *running binary*, but
detect_install_method() read it from $HERMES_HOME/.install_method — a shared
DATA directory. The Docker docs deliberately bind-mount $HERMES_HOME
(~/.hermes:/opt/data) so config/sessions/memory persist and can be shared with
a host-side Desktop/CLI install.
When a containerized gateway and a host install share one $HERMES_HOME, the
home-scoped stamp is a single slot describing two installs: the published image
stamps 'docker' on every boot, the host install then reads 'docker' and the
in-app updater refuses to run 'hermes update' ("doesn't apply inside the Docker
container"). Reinstalling the Desktop app from the DMG doesn't help because the
contaminated stamp is re-read every time.
Fix (option 1 — code-scoped stamp):
- detect_install_method() reads <install tree>/.install_method first (next to
the running code, immune to the shared data dir). It falls back to the legacy
$HERMES_HOME stamp for back-compat, but IGNORES a 'docker' home stamp when
not actually containerized — so already-poisoned shared homes self-heal.
- stamp_install_method() writes the code-scoped stamp.
- install.sh stamps $INSTALL_DIR instead of $HERMES_HOME.
- Dockerfile bakes 'docker' into /opt/hermes/.install_method at build time
(inside the immutable block); stage2-hook.sh no longer writes the home stamp
and proactively removes a stale 'docker' one to heal existing shared homes.
Genuine containers still resolve to 'docker' (baked stamp, or legacy home stamp
honored when containerized). Unstamped installs in generic containers still fall
through to git/pip (preserves the #34397 fix).