Under gateway.multiplex_profiles (and the Desktop/dashboard backend serving named
profiles) os.environ holds the LAUNCH profile's .env. Five spawn sites built a
child's env from it while acting for another profile, so the child saw the
launch profile's HERMES_HOME (bot_relay, key_cmd), its credentials, HERMES_MODEL
and TERMINAL_* policy, and none of the served profile's own .env:
- tui_gateway/server.py _SlashWorker: pinned HERMES_HOME but kept the launch
base with tier-2 credentials + settings.
- tools/bot_relay.py delivery_env (relay RPC + --run-delivery): dict(os.environ).
- tools/browser_tool.py _build_browser_env: re-added BROWSERBASE/FIRECRAWL/
BROWSER_USE keys from os.environ after the scrub.
- plugins/platforms/a2a/adapter.py _forward_to_profile: {**os.environ}.
- agent/command_token_source.py _mint: key_cmd helper inherited os.environ.
tools.environments.local.served_profile_child_env is the one builder: pin the
target home, drop the launch profile's .env residue and bridged TERMINAL_*
(strip_launch_profile_env), and for children that legitimately run with the
profile's credentials (agent worker, token helper) overlay the target profile's
own secrets - what a standalone `hermes -p X` loads itself, never a sibling's.
The browser keeps the provider scrub and re-adds only its passthrough keys via
get_secret. Outside multiplex the env is unchanged.
Live proof from inside the child (launch A, served B, multiplex on): all five
children print HERMES_HOME == B, see B_MARKER=b from B's .env and do not see
A_MARKER; the browser child gets B's FIRECRAWL_API_KEY. On base every one leaked
A_MARKER and lacked B_MARKER; bot_relay and key_cmd also had A's HERMES_HOME.
_relay_root had moved to get_default_hermes_root() while tools/bot_relay and
tools/bot_mode_dm still derive the install root via bot_mode_probe._hermes_root.
For HERMES_HOME=~/.hermes/<non-profiles-subdir> the two disagreed, so the
gateway drained ~/.hermes/<relay> while message_agent wrote to
~/.hermes/<subdir>/<relay>: silent non-delivery. Both ends now share the
pre-existing writer formula; an invariant test enqueues through the writer
root and drains through the gateway handler for both home shapes.
worktree_gc archived untracked files under ~/.hermes regardless of the active
profile or HERMES_HOME (and the Windows LOCALAPPDATA default); dashboard_procs'
remote-lock dir, both bot_mode `_default_home` copies, methods_bot_relay's
`_relay_root` (a hand copy of get_default_hermes_root's profiles/ strip) and
load_hermes_dotenv's default home all re-derived env-or-`~/.hermes` by hand and
so diverged from the platform default. Each now calls the canonical getter
with the intent it already had: get_hermes_home() where the active profile
matters (archive), get_process_hermes_home() where the process asset must stay
visible under a routed-profile override (locks, bot mode, startup .env),
get_default_hermes_root() for install-wide relay state.
bot_relay.deliver accepted from_profile, from_handle and from_connection from any admitted JSON-RPC client. The handler now refuses them with error 4095 when the calling transport carries a browser login identity, since a logged-in browser never relays for another connection. The DeliveryAuthor docstring now says the author is trusted because an admitted client relays it, not because the sender is verified.
A relayed DM stamped bot:<profile> on the recipient turn, so an ops profile on another machine and the local ops profile shared one author id. The Desktop now forwards from_connection with each bot_relay.deliver, and delivery_turn_author builds bot:<connection>/<profile> for it while the Desktop's own gateway ("local") keeps the bare id. An api author object accepts an optional origin string that yields the same shape.
When the target Bot Chat is already open on this gateway, the relay handler delivers through
`prompt.submit` with `queued: true`, and that branch dropped the envelope's sender. The model
still saw the text prefix, but the turn reached the agent unattributed, the exact case the
subprocess branch fixes.
The relay handler now stamps the author on the submit as a `DeliveryAuthor`, an in-process object
a JSON client cannot build, so `prompt.submit` accepts it the way it accepts a hosted-room callback
and refuses a dict with error 4124. The busy queue keeps an authored envelope in its own slot, the
drain hands the author to the turn runner, and the runner passes it to an agent that declares the
keyword. A plain prompt after an authored dm carries no author.
Local deliveries to a desktop-owned Bot Chat take the live-owner mailbox instead. The admission
intent and the mailbox record now carry the author, a retry under the same id with a different
author is refused, and the owner gateway hands the author to the turn it runs. Isolated compute
turns still run unattributed, because the compute-host frame has no author field.
The Telegram adapter asks the authorization check before dispatch, the ingress gate asks it
again, and the busy path asks a third time. Each call counted one loop-guard event, so a
Telegram bot tripped the budget after a third of the configured messages. The verdict now only
refuses a chat that is cooling down. The ingress gate counts an admitted bot message once.
`parse_turn_author` treats only booleans, integers and the strings true/1/yes as a bot flag,
and returns None for an author with neither id nor name. Names keep format characters and
non-breaking spaces so emoji sequences survive. The quiet one-shot pops HERMES_TURN_AUTHOR
before the turn so tool subprocesses do not inherit it. `max_events` must be a whole positive
number. Issue numbers move out of code comments.
a bot dm arrived as an ordinary user message. the only trace of the sender
was the "Message from" text prefix, which the model reads and nothing else
does. the recipient's memory provider saw its own configured user.
message_agent now passes the sender as {"id": "bot:<profile>", "name":
<handle>, "is_bot": true} to the delivery runner (--author <json>), which sets
HERMES_TURN_AUTHOR on the recipient one-shot only. the -Q turn reads it and
passes turn_author into run_conversation. the desktop relay forwards the
envelope's from_profile/from_handle to bot_relay.deliver, which sets the same
variable on its delivery turn. the runner drops any inherited author first so
a delivery without one stays unattributed. the text prefix is unchanged.
The sender-side waiter gave up at 900s while the Desktop held bot_relay.deliver open for 1500s, so a turn finishing between minute 15 and minute 25 wrote a reply nobody read. REPLY_WAIT_SECONDS now rebuilds the Desktop budget from the same numbers and waits 60s past it. The two turn constants move into tools/bot_relay.py so the gateway handler and the waiter share one definition.
For each issue anchor present in BASE 63279301bc non-test .py and absent on HEAD, the BASE comment/docstring block was re-attached at the HEAD location of the code it explained (matched by the distinctive code line / enclosing def). Sentences already covered by an existing HEAD comment were deduped; the issue number always survives. Insert-only: no code lines changed.
When the Desktop has a bot's "Bot Chat" open, that session holds the
single-owner lease, so the `hermes -p <bot> chat -c "Bot Chat"` subprocess
`bot_relay.deliver` spawns refuses with "already has a live owner" and the
DM payload is dropped — the sender was already acked.
bot_relay.deliver now looks up a live in-process session for the target
profile whose title resolves to "Bot Chat" (same profile_home match as
session.resume's _find_live_unpersisted, pending_title for lazy sessions,
otherwise the db title) and, when found, submits the message through the
existing prompt.submit handler — the composer's choke point — so it lands
as a normal user turn (role alternation preserved, streams to the open
window). No live owner → the subprocess path runs exactly as before.
On the local message_agent subprocess path, the lease refusal is surfaced
as a structured `target_busy` delivery failure telling the sender the
message was NOT delivered, instead of a raw exit-1 with the text buried
in stderr.
Closes#100523
Supersedes #100544, #100542
Co-authored-by: fangliquanflq <fangliquan@qq.com>
Co-authored-by: 686f6c61 <github@00b.tech>
Salvage hardening on top of #93601 (with #93597 covering the same core
mechanisms) for #93590:
- _hermes_cli(): after the venv-sibling check (hermes.exe on win32),
try shutil.which('hermes') before the bare-name fallback, so
environments with a PATH but no venv sibling resolve exactly what an
interactive shell would. Platform test switched os.name -> sys.platform
('win32') per repo convention.
- tui_gateway/methods_bot_relay.py deliver: pin encoding='utf-8',
errors='replace' on both subprocess.run sites — without them the
child's UTF-8 output is decoded with the locale codec (cp1252/GBK on
Windows), mangling non-ASCII replies or raising on undecodable bytes.
- Regression tests: shutil.which resolution step, bare-name fallback
with which=None, and encoding-pin assertions in the deliver transport
test.
Refs #93590, #93597, #93601
Maintainer ruling (2026-08-23): a retried bot turn never mints a fresh
session. retry_action() maps the #93091 item-1 reason enum to one of
resume / compress_then_resume / none:
- transient classes (runtime_offline, delivery_timeout, rate limit,
server error) re-run the same Bot Chat session once;
- context_overflow also re-runs the same session — the retried turn
goes through the pre-API compaction pass in conversation_loop.py,
which compacts the over-threshold transcript first (the one
sanctioned context mutation); no fresh-session escape hatch exists;
- auth/quota/config/model classes never auto-retry.
Wired at both delivery surfaces (fix the class, not one site):
bot_relay.deliver (relay handler) and _run_delivery (local
message_agent runner). Failed deliveries now carry the classified
reason in the structured error payload (error.data.reason).
Sabotage-verified: with the retry blocks removed, 3 consumer tests
fail; with them present, 22/22 pass.
- Drop the false fairness claim from acquire_turn_lock's docstring (LOCK_NB
probe + sleep retry gives no arrival-order guarantee; only the budget is).
- logger.debug once when the lock degrades to a no-op on fcntl-less
platforms so silent serialization loss stays diagnosable.
- Document the real worst-case deliver handler hold (120s lock wait + 600s
turn = ~720s) where clients tune their timeouts against it.
- Pin non-reentry: local_delivery_command must stay a raw 'hermes -p' argv —
wrapping it in --run-delivery would make the child contend with its
parent's own flock and fail every relay delivery with target_busy.
- De-flake: the cross-profile test's upper-bound wall-time assert tolerates
loaded CI runners; the wait-duration message assert matches ~Ns generally.
Widen the DM tempfile-leak fix (#91902/#92407) to the sibling sites
PR #92784 introduced:
- tools/bot_relay.py: expose the 6h stale sweep as
cleanup_bot_relay_artifacts() (cleanup_*_cache contract) and wire it
into gateway housekeeping — previously it ran only when the Desktop
drained the outbox, so plaintext envelopes/replies queued while the
Desktop was away could sit on disk forever.
- tui_gateway/methods_bot_relay.py: move the payload write inside the
try/finally so a failed write no longer leaks hermes-relay-dm-*.txt.
- tools/bot_mode_dm.py: _spawn_delivery takes dm_file=None for relay
waiter deliveries, which have no plaintext DM tempfile to reclaim.
Connections ARE the peer set: every gateway connected to the Desktop
(local, remote URL, SSH, Hermes Cloud, docker) is now message_agent-
reachable. The Desktop relays over the persistent sockets it already
holds — roster sync per connection, envelope drain/deliver/reply loops —
so cross-connection DMs work exactly like local ones, replies included.
Also fixes the legacy-SOUL gate bug: profiles whose SOUL.md carries the
old plugin-appended protocol silently lost the message_agent tool
because the injection/execution gates keyed on protocol-section
non-emptiness instead of managed-install.
KoNit-K