The Sep 2026 decomposition (PR #102117) makes internal import paths a non-API: names now live in
the focused modules that define them. This commit is the ONLY thing keeping the old paths alive,
so external plugins have time to update. It is deliberately a single, unsquashed commit:
git revert <this sha>
removes every shim, stub and manifest at once on the announced date. Nothing in-tree may depend on
these pointers: scripts/check_compat_pointers.py (wired into lint.yml) fails CI if it does.
What it adds (see COMPAT_MANIFEST.md, compat_manifest.json):
- 332 facade modules get one delimited `PLUGIN-COMPAT` block appended at the end of the file
- 1,172 moved names resolved lazily via a module `__getattr__` (PEP 562) — never a top-level import,
so no import cycles; facades that already had `__getattr__` get a chained one
- 592 third-party/stdlib names the old modules used to expose, with their original import statements
- 266 public definitions that had been deleted as unused, restored byte-for-byte from the pre-decomposition
tree (+40 private helpers and 16 imports pulled in only because a restored definition needs them)
- 3 deleted modules recreated as re-export stubs (gateway/startup_watchdog, hermes_cli/observability/
relay_runtime, tools/environments/modal_utils)
- private names (`_x`) get no pointer: they were never API (3,792 skipped)
Verified: all 335 touched modules import under a fresh HERMES_HOME and every manifest name resolves;
the lint reports zero in-tree uses; ruff clean; targeted suites unchanged.
No runtime consumer read the proxy (terminal_tool/environments call is_interrupted()/set_interrupt()
directly); its only users were tests patching tools.interrupt._interrupt_event, which had no effect on
the code under test. tools/terminal_tool.py's own re-export of the name is owned by another worker.
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.
The goal judge now returns 'blocked' for unachievable goals, but the
/loop --until gate only checked == 'done', so an impossible stop
condition would re-fire every tick until loops.max_ticks. Pause the
loop with the judge's reason instead. Also collapse the kanban gate
callers' 'gate_verdict == "continue" or rejection is not None' to
'rejection is not None' (rejection is None iff verdict == done), drop
the duplicate blocked-verdict goal test, and document the verdict.
`hermes kanban boards export|import` moves a board between machines:
tasks, comments, links, history, and attachments in one .tar.gz.
Two things make this more than a tar of the board directory. The
database is live — kanban runs in WAL mode, so a filesystem copy loses
whatever still sits in the -wal sidecar and tears if the dispatcher
commits mid-copy; export goes through SQLite's online-backup API
instead. And rows carry machine-local state: claims, worker PIDs,
absolute workspace and attachment paths, session ids, and the gateway
chat ids subscribed to task events. Shipping those verbatim is how an
imported board arrives holding a claim owned by a process on someone
else's laptop, or starts pushing task events into a stranger's Telegram
thread. Everything machine-local is stripped on export and re-stripped
on import, since an archive is untrusted input.
Imports always land as a NEW board, auto-suffixing the slug on
collision, so an import can never merge into or overwrite a board that
is already there. Tasks whose workspace was a directory or git worktree
on the source machine are parked in triage rather than left for the
dispatcher to claim and burn into the failure breaker.
Two production incidents (OOF-77 "larrikin-lollies", OOF-30
"synclare-task-manager") followed the same shape: no
kanban.max_in_progress configured, a busy board, and a 1 GiB hosted VM.
The dispatcher fanned out 26-31 concurrent workers, the host went into
swap-thrash/OOM, and the whole machine — dashboard included — became
unreachable. NAS restart loops then masked the problem: each restart
"recovered" briefly before the kanban dispatcher immediately respawned
unbounded workers.
Building on the cherry-picked max_in_progress-across-both-lanes fix
(PR #28695, credit @Dusk1e), this adds two complementary safeguards to
hermes_cli/kanban_db.py:
1. Memory-DERIVED default concurrency cap. When kanban.max_in_progress
is unset, resolve_max_in_progress() derives a default of
clamp(MemTotal / 512 MiB, 2, 8) — e.g. 2 workers on a 1 GiB VM,
8 on 4 GiB+. Explicit config always wins in either direction. On
hosts where total memory can't be read (macOS/Windows dev machines),
the default stays None (no cap — unchanged behaviour). Wired into
both dispatch entry points (gateway/kanban_watchers.py and
hermes kanban dispatch) so behaviour matches regardless of path.
2. Live memory-PRESSURE guard inside dispatch_once. A static cap can't
see the host's actual memory state (other tenants, bloated
long-lived workers). The dispatcher now samples system memory each
tick via gateway.lifecycle_ledger.sample_memory() and classifies it
with gateway.memory_status.classify_pressure() (same thresholds as
the dashboard memory banner and OOM-suspicion heuristics from
NS-608/NS-656): critical -> spawn nothing this tick; elevated ->
at most one new worker; unknown -> no restriction (fail-open).
Reclaim/promotion bookkeeping still runs under pressure, and
deferred tasks stay queued — nothing is dropped. Restriction is
surfaced on DispatchResult.memory_pressure and logged.
Tests: tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_memory_guard.py (14 tests) covers
the derived cap (floor/ceiling/fail-open/explicit-config-wins), the
pressure classifier, and dispatch behaviour under critical/elevated/
unknown pressure including defer-not-drop and bookkeeping-still-runs.
An autouse fixture in tests/conftest.py pins the memory sample to
"no data" suite-wide so existing dispatch tests don't depend on the
CI runner's live memory state (opt-out marker: real_memory_guard).
Kanban worktree workspaces were never removed by anything: _cleanup_workspace
preserved them by design, the CLI startup pruner explicitly defers t_* trees
to 'hermes kanban gc', and gc only sweeps scratch — so every worktree task
leaked its checkout forever (measured ~130GB on one estate).
- _cleanup_workspace now dispatches worktree workspaces to a new
_cleanup_worktree_workspace, which removes the worktree and its
auto-generated wt/<task-id> branch only when the tree is clean AND every
commit is reachable from a remote-tracking ref (reusing cli.py's
_worktree_is_dirty / _worktree_has_unpushed_commits predicates). Any
doubt preserves the worktree. dir workspaces stay untouched.
- The #33774 active-children deferral now covers worktree parents, and
_try_cleanup_parent_workspaces reaps deferred worktree parents when the
last child reaches a terminal state.
- archive_task reaps workspaces too; tasks archived without completing
previously leaked forever.
- 'hermes kanban gc' gains a backstop sweep for archived worktree tasks
that predate these hooks.
Tests: tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_worktree_teardown.py (10 cases: removal,
dirty/unpushed/custom-branch/main-checkout/non-git preservation, complete/
archive integration, deferred-parent handoff).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Salvage of #37865 by @verybigdog. Adds delivery_mode (notify / notify+wake / wake)
on kanban notify subscriptions, persists chat_type + user_id_alt so a woken turn
reconstructs the creator's real session key, inherits the return path to child
tasks, and keeps wake out of the model-exposed send_message schema.
Original commits were authored under a local placeholder identity
(hermes-agent@users.noreply.local); re-attributed to the contributor's
public email.
request_review on a running task under a live claim now requires the
caller to prove ownership (expected_run_id, the unchanged worker path)
or pass an explicit force=True override (CLI --force; dashboard human
actions pass force=True) instead of silently clearing claim_lock /
worker_pid of a live run.
Failures now carry distinct diagnostic reasons via with_reason=True
(mirroring request_changes' tuple pattern): live-claim refusal,
malformed re-review provenance, unsatisfied parents, unknown task, and
CAS miss. Tool/CLI handlers surface the specific reason instead of the
generic 'unknown id or not in running/ready'.
Regression tests: live-claim refusal + force/worker paths; malformed
provenance gets a distinct reason and explicit reviewer= recovers.
Add a non-terminal "review" status so a worker that finished implementation
can hand off for human review without abusing kanban_block. The old
kanban_block(reason="review-required: ...") convention routed the handoff
through the unblock-loop breaker, so a normal review -> changes -> review
cycle was falsely escalated to triage.
- kanban_db: request_review (running/ready -> review, non-block, emits
review_requested), reopen_review_task (review -> ready/todo, review_reopened),
complete_task accepts review -> done, and a review_dispatch gate (default off,
shared by the dispatcher loop and the gateway health probe).
- kanban_request_review worker tool + `request-review` / `reopen-review` CLI
verbs; tool wired through toolsets, EXPOSED_TOOLS, _POLISHED_TOOLS.
- Gateway notifier wakes the origin subscriber on review_requested and
block_loop_detected; the subscription survives until done/archived, so every
review cycle re-notifies.
- Dashboard PATCH + bulk route the review transitions (request_review /
reopen_review_task) and render the review column.
- goals.py goal-loop and KANBAN_GUIDANCE recognize review as a terminator.
- Docs (reference tables, user guide, AGENTS.md, zh-Hans mirrors) + tests.
needs_input / failed are unchanged: they still route through kanban_block,
still count toward block_recurrences, and still escalate to triage.
Follow-up to the main fix in this PR. rodriguez46p-ui's review on the
equivalent #56632 (closed stale) flagged that only the auto-subscribe
path in tools/kanban_tools.py was covered; the same gap existed in two
more call sites:
- gateway/slash_commands.py: the `/kanban create` slash command auto-
subscribes the calling session but didn't pass chat_type. Read it
from source.chat_type (already available on SessionSource).
- hermes_cli/kanban.py: the `kanban notify-subscribe` CLI command now
accepts --chat-type and threads it through.
The dashboard plugin API (plugins/kanban/dashboard/plugin_api.py) still
has the gap because the home_channel config schema doesn't carry
chat_type — that's a follow-up that needs a config schema change.
Verified: 258 tests pass on the kanban + session_context suites.
The sidebar strip and the Channels page could contradict each other on
the same page load — "Gateway running" next to "The gateway is not
running." /api/status and /api/messaging/platforms each open-coded their
own liveness ladder: status probed GATEWAY_HEALTH_URL and scoped its
PID/state reads to the requested profile, messaging did neither and used
the uncached raw PID probe.
Three deployments hit the split: a cross-container gateway (no local PID,
only the health probe can see it), a profile-scoped dashboard (messaging
borrowed a DIFFERENT profile's runtime state, reporting a false
"connected" that hides a real outage — #71211), and a launch-service
managed gateway with no PID file.
Adds resolve_gateway_liveness() in gateway/status.py as the single ladder
(cached PID -> HTTP health probe -> runtime-status PID with
expected_home) and routes both endpoints, /api/messaging/platforms/{id}/test,
and the kanban dispatcher-presence probe through it. Probe callables are
injectable so the existing monkeypatch seams keep working, and
GatewayLiveness.probe_error distinguishes "down" from "couldn't tell" so
the kanban warning keeps failing OPEN instead of crying wolf.
Closes#71211.
Adds the missing write path for the per-task model_override column (which
was previously only settable via manual SQL) and pairs it with a
provider_override so cross-provider switches resolve correctly:
- kanban_db: provider_override column (+migration), set_model_override()
with model_override_set event, create_task(model_override=,
provider_override=), dispatcher spawns worker with -m <model>
[--provider <name>]
- dashboard: Model row in the task drawer — dropdown fed by a new
/model-options endpoint (build_models_payload substrate, provider-grouped,
free-text fallback), PATCH + bulk model override support
- CLI: kanban create --model/--provider, new kanban set-model subcommand,
show prints the provider
- agent tools: kanban_create accepts model/provider; show/list expose
provider_override
Rate-limit recovery flow: override is settable on running tasks and takes
effect on the next dispatch, without touching the worker profile's config.
Adds kanban_db.repair_db() — a structured, non-raising wrapper around
the same narrow repair policy as the connect-time guard: probe with
PRAGMA integrity_check under the board's cross-process init flock;
quarantine the corrupt bytes FIRST via the content-addressed backup;
REINDEX only when every integrity message is index-scoped; re-check;
report ok / repaired / corrupt / missing. Locked/busy OperationalError
still propagates raw (a locked healthy DB is not corruption and gets
no quarantine), and a repair invalidates the per-process healthy-path
cache so the next connect() re-probes.
The CLI verb reports status human-readably (or --json), exits 0 for
ok/repaired/missing and 1 when the DB is still corrupt (non-index
corruption stays fail-closed with manual-recovery guidance). It
dispatches BEFORE kanban_command's auto-init: init_db() raises
KanbanDbCorruptError on a corrupt board, which previously would have
made a repair verb unreachable on exactly the boards that need it.
CLI tests drive the real argparse surface (build_parser +
kanban_command) against real corrupted SQLite fixtures.
Follow-up to the salvaged transport-failure auto-pause (#54387): the PR
branch predates the CLI completion gate merged in #67985, so that new
judge_goal consumer (hermes_cli/kanban.py) needed the 5-value unpack too
— otherwise it would fail open again via the swallowed ValueError.
Also migrates the two remaining 4-value mocks in
tests/cli/test_cli_goal_interrupt.py flagged on the earlier PR #27760.
Follow-up to the cherry-picked CLI judge gate (#55854): the gate carried
the same 3-value unpack bug just fixed on the tool path in PR #67973 —
the ValueError would have been swallowed by the fail-open handler,
silently disabling the gate.
Also: test mock now returns the real 4-value judge contract (the old
3-value mock masked the bug), tests track complete_task invocations and
assert the rejection path never writes, and the unused _make_goal_task
helper is dropped.
The three-commit hardening series (Issue #38367, PR #55408) added a
pre-completion judge gate to `tools/kanban_tools.py:_handle_complete`
(the kanban_complete tool used by agent tool-calls). The structurally
identical `hermes_cli/kanban.py:_cmd_complete` (the `hermes kanban
complete` CLI subcommand) was left unguarded.
A goal_mode worker with terminal tool access — the overwhelming default
for coding agents — can bypass the judge entirely by running:
hermes kanban complete <task_id>
This transitions the task to `done` status with no judge verdict, making
the acceptance-criteria enforcement worthless on that path.
Fix: apply the same gate in _cmd_complete before calling kb.complete_task.
When a judge is reachable and returns anything other than "done", the
command prints an actionable rejection message and exits non-zero without
modifying the task. The fail-open policy (no judge configured → allowed)
is preserved to match the tool-call path.
The kanban board has had full attachment storage and a dashboard HTTP
API (upload/list/download/delete) since #35338, but there was no agent
toolset tool and no `hermes kanban` CLI verb for attachments. Agents and
scripts that don't go through the dashboard server (or can't touch the DB
directly) had no way to create or read real attachments — only links in
comments.
Close that gap by mirroring the existing comment surface:
- `kanban_db.store_attachment_bytes()` — one shared write path (validate
name, enforce the 25 MB cap, write the blob under the per-task dir with
collision-free naming, insert the metadata row, clean up an orphan blob
if the insert fails). `_MAX_ATTACHMENT_BYTES`, `_safe_attachment_name`,
and a new `_collision_free_path` move here so the dashboard, the tool,
and the CLI all share one implementation and can't drift.
- Tools (`tools/kanban_tools.py`): `kanban_attach` (inline base64),
`kanban_attach_url` (server-side http/https fetch with the same cap),
`kanban_attachments` (list). Write tools respect worker task-ownership;
list is read-only. Registered in the `kanban` toolset.
- CLI (`hermes_cli/kanban.py`): `attach <id> <path>`, `attachments <id>`,
`attach-rm <attachment_id>`.
- Dashboard `upload_task_attachment` now imports the shared helpers and
uses `_collision_free_path` — behavior identical (still streams to disk
with the cap, still 413 on overflow).
- Docs (AGENTS.md, kanban-worker skill) and toolset membership updated.
Tests: tool round-trip + oversize + bad base64 + ownership; attach_url
against a local HTTP fixture incl. oversize-mid-stream and non-http
scheme rejection; CLI attach/attachments/attach-rm; shared-helper unit
tests; dashboard parity preserved.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(kanban): typed block reasons + unblock-loop breaker
Stops the kanban blocked-task loop: a worker blocks a task, a cron
unblocks it, the worker re-blocks for the same reason, repeat forever.
block_task now takes a typed kind and a persistent block_recurrences
counter on the tasks table:
- kind=dependency routes to todo (parent-gated, auto-resumed), never
the human 'blocked' bucket a cron would keep unblocking.
- needs_input/capability/transient/untyped land in blocked; each
same-cause re-block after an unblock increments block_recurrences,
and at BLOCK_RECURRENCE_LIMIT (default 2) the task routes to triage
for a human instead of blocked.
- unblock_task no longer resets block_recurrences (the amnesia that
let the loop run unbounded); complete_task clears it on success.
Wired through the worker kanban_block tool (new kind arg) and the
hermes kanban block --kind CLI flag, both reporting where the task
actually landed. Docs + 11 new tests; 536 existing kanban tests green.
* test(kanban): make second-block notify test use a distinct block cause
test_notifier_second_blocked_delivers blocked the same task twice with
the same (untyped) reason, which now trips the new unblock-loop breaker
and routes the second block to triage instead of blocked — so only one
'blocked' notification fired. The test's actual intent is that TWO
distinct block cycles each notify; give the two cycles different kinds
(needs_input then capability) so they're genuinely separate blocks. The
same-cause loop→triage path is covered by test_kanban_block_kinds.py.
The kanban-worker and kanban-orchestrator bundled skills existed only to
be force-loaded into dispatcher-spawned workers, gated by
environments:[kanban] so they wouldn't leak into normal CLI listings.
That gating was fragile (the leak that #50443 patched) and the
--skills auto-load was already best-effort — most workers ran without it
because the bundled skill isn't present in profile-scoped skills dirs.
Remove the skills entirely and promote their load-bearing content
(workspace kinds, deliverable artifacts, created-card integrity, profile
discovery) into KANBAN_GUIDANCE, which is already injected into every
kanban worker's system prompt. Net result: every worker reliably gets
the guidance, nothing can leak into a CLI/blank-slate session, and the
gating machinery is gone.
- agent/prompt_builder.py: promote the 4 load-bearing rules into KANBAN_GUIDANCE
- hermes_cli/kanban_db.py: drop --skills kanban-worker auto-injection + _kanban_worker_skill_available probe
- hermes_cli/kanban_swarm.py: drop skills=[kanban-orchestrator] on the root card
- hermes_cli/kanban.py: drop kanban-init skill seeding; fix help text
- delete skills/devops/kanban-{worker,orchestrator}
- docs: delete the two skill pages (EN+zh), fix sidebars/catalog/kanban.md/kanban-worker-lanes.md and the video-orchestrator + codex-lane references
- tests: update spawn-argv expectations; re-bound the guidance-size guard
Supersedes the skill-leak half of #50443 (credit @helix4u for flagging the area).
* feat(kanban): goal_mode cards run workers in a /goal loop
A goal_mode card wraps its dispatched worker in the Ralph-style goal
loop behind /goal: after each turn an auxiliary judge checks the
worker's response against the card title+body, and if not done the
worker keeps going in the SAME session until the judge agrees, the
worker terminates the task itself, or the turn budget runs out (which
blocks the card for human review — never a silent exit).
- kanban_db: goal_mode + goal_max_turns columns (additive migration),
Task fields, create_task params, INSERT wiring, created-event payload.
- kanban_tools: goal_mode/goal_max_turns on the kanban_create tool so
orchestrators can opt cards in when fanning out.
- kanban CLI: --goal / --goal-max-turns on 'kanban create'.
- dashboard API: goal_mode/goal_max_turns on the create endpoint
(auto-surfaced back via asdict).
- _default_spawn: sets HERMES_KANBAN_GOAL_MODE / _GOAL_MAX_TURNS only
when the card opts in.
- goals.run_kanban_goal_loop: standalone, callback-injected loop engine
(no SessionDB persistence; ephemeral worker). cli.py quiet path calls
it after the worker's first turn when the env vars are set.
- Docs: orchestrator skill + kanban feature page.
Tests: DB roundtrip + legacy migration, spawn env gating, and the loop's
continuation/completion/budget-block/finalize-nudge branches. E2E run
against a real kanban DB confirms a budget-exhausted goal worker lands
in a sticky blocked state.
* feat(kanban/dashboard): goal-mode toggle in the create form
Wires the goal_mode card setting into the dashboard UI (the plugin's
hand-written IIFE bundle, no build step):
- InlineCreate: 'goal mode' checkbox after the skills field; checking it
reveals an optional 'max turns' number input. Both reset on submit and
only post goal_mode/goal_max_turns when enabled.
- TaskDrawer: a 'Goal mode: on (max N turns)' MetaRow so a card's
goal-mode setting is visible after creation (auto-fed by asdict via the
existing _task_dict).
Live-tested through the running dashboard with a browser: created a
goal-mode card with max-turns=8, confirmed it persisted to the kanban DB
(goal_mode=1, goal_max_turns=8) and rendered back in the drawer as
'on (max 8 turns)'. No JS console errors.
`hermes kanban unblock <id> review-required: ...` parsed every trailing word
as another task_id (since `task_ids` is `nargs='+'`), then quietly failed on
each non-existent id with "cannot unblock review-required: (not blocked/scheduled?)".
Reporter saw this as asymmetric with `block <id> <reason...>` which accepts
positional reason words.
Fix: add a `--reason "..."` flag that, when provided, is appended as a
`UNBLOCK: <reason>` comment before the unblock transition. Bulk syntax
(`unblock t_a t_b t_c`) is preserved unchanged.
Co-authored-by: julio-cloudvisor <211828103+julio-cloudvisor@users.noreply.github.com>
Two small bugs in the kanban dispatcher's CLI surface that were
silently degrading two distinct workflows. Bundled because the test
files and the surrounding code surface overlap.
## #33488: hermes kanban dispatch ignored kanban.max_in_progress / max_spawn
The CLI wrapper in hermes_cli/kanban.py:_cmd_dispatch only passed
default_assignee and max_in_progress_per_profile through to
dispatch_once. The global concurrency cap (kanban.max_in_progress)
and the per-tick spawn limit (kanban.max_spawn) were silently dropped,
so operators using 'hermes kanban dispatch' as a one-shot or in a
custom loop couldn't reach either cap from config — only the gateway
embedded dispatcher honored them.
Fix: read both keys from config in the same coerce-positive-int
helper that already handled max_in_progress_per_profile. CLI --max
still wins over config kanban.max_spawn when both are present
(explicit operator signal beats default), but absent --max falls
back to config.
## #29415: synthesizer crashed in retry loop on missing skill
hermes_cli/kanban_swarm.py:212 hardcoded skills=['avoid-ai-writing'],
a skill that doesn't exist in the bundled skills/ directory or any
registered hub source. Every synthesizer worker spawn failed at CLI
startup with 'Unknown skill(s): avoid-ai-writing' before the agent
loop even started — the dispatcher retried up to failure_limit
(default 2), then auto-blocked the task, then dependency rules could
re-promote it, looping forever until manual intervention.
Fix: replace with 'humanizer' which is bundled at
skills/creative/humanizer/SKILL.md (description: 'Humanize text:
strip AI-isms and add real voice'). That's the obvious intent behind
the 'avoid-ai-writing' name, and the skill is platform-portable
(linux/macos/windows) so it works on every supported runtime.
## Tests
tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_cli_dispatch_passthrough.py — 4 cases:
- CLI passes max_in_progress / max_spawn / default_assignee /
max_in_progress_per_profile from config to dispatch_once
- CLI --max flag overrides config kanban.max_spawn
- Invalid cap values (0, -1, 'abc', '1.5') silently fall through to None
- kanban_swarm.py no longer references 'avoid-ai-writing' AND the
replacement 'humanizer' skill exists at the expected on-disk path
Kanban suite: 468/468 pass (was 464; +4 new regression tests).
Two related dispatcher behaviors that have been missing for a while.
## kanban.default_assignee (#27145)
Reporter (@agarzon): dashboard creates a task without an assignee, task
parks in 'ready' forever even though the operator's intent ('default')
is perfectly clear. The dispatcher already had a 'skipped_unassigned'
bucket but no fallback routing — users had to manually type 'default'
in the assignee field every time.
Behavior: when 'kanban.default_assignee' is set in config.yaml, the
dispatcher applies that assignee to any unassigned ready task before
deciding whether to spawn. The row is mutated (assignee column + an
'assigned' event with source='kanban.default_assignee' for the audit
trail). Empty/whitespace config value = no fallback, preserving the
existing skipped_unassigned behavior.
Dry-run mode reports what WOULD happen via the new
'auto_assigned_default' bucket on DispatchResult, but does NOT mutate
the DB — operators using 'hermes kanban dispatch --dry-run' see the
routing decision before committing.
## kanban.max_in_progress_per_profile (#21582)
Reporter (@edwardchenchen, @simlu, 4 reactions): fan-out workloads
saturate one profile's local model / API quota / browser pool while
other profiles sit idle. The existing global 'max_in_progress' caps
total workers but doesn't balance across profiles.
Behavior: when 'kanban.max_in_progress_per_profile' is set to a
positive int, the dispatcher tracks per-assignee running counts (one
query at tick start) and refuses to spawn for any assignee already at
the cap. Tasks blocked this way go to a new
'skipped_per_profile_capped' bucket on DispatchResult as
(task_id, assignee, current_running_count) tuples — NOT an
operator-actionable failure, just 'try again next tick when the
profile has capacity'.
Pre-existing 'running' tasks count against the cap (verified via
regression test). The cap respects dry_run mode by incrementing
its in-memory counter on each would-be spawn so dry_run reports
the same balanced subset that a real tick would.
Invalid cap values (0, negative, non-int, None) are treated as 'no
cap', preserving the existing behavior. Backward-compatible for
installs that don't set the config.
## Surfaces
- 'hermes kanban dispatch' CLI now prints 'Auto-assigned to
kanban.default_assignee=X: ...' and 'Deferred (X at per-profile cap,
N running): ...' lines, plus matching JSON keys in --json output.
- Gateway dispatcher logs the configured values at startup
('default_assignee=X', 'max_in_progress_per_profile=N').
- 'kanban.max_in_progress_per_profile' added to DEFAULT_CONFIG with
inline docs.
## Validation
- tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_default_assignee.py (6 cases): no-cap
baseline, auto-assign + DB mutation, dry-run reports without
mutating, whitespace treated as None, explicit assignees untouched,
DispatchResult field schema.
- tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_per_profile_cap.py (9 cases including
4 parametrized): no-cap baseline, balanced 2-profile fan-out,
pre-existing running counts against cap, invalid cap values
(0/-1/'abc'/None), capped tasks dispatched on next tick after
running task completes, DispatchResult field schema.
- Broader kanban suite: 464/464 pass (was 449 baseline; +15 new
regression tests across both features).
## Credit
#27145 — Jimmy Johansson reported the dispatcher skipped-unassigned
gap; @agarzon scoped the simpler 'honor kanban.default_assignee' fix
that matches the existing config knob.
#21582 — @edwardchenchen filed the per-profile cap ask after hitting
model 429s on fan-out research projects; @simlu confirmed the same
pain on local-model setups.
`sqlite3.Connection.__exit__` commits/rollbacks but does NOT close the
underlying FD. `with kb.connect() as conn:` in long-lived processes
(gateway `run_slash`, dashboard `decompose_task_endpoint`) therefore
leaks one FD to `kanban.db` per call. After enough operations the
gateway dies with `[Errno 24] Too many open files` (~4 days uptime
in the production report — #33159).
Fix: add a `connect_closing()` context manager in `hermes_cli/kanban_db`
that wraps `connect()` with a real `try/finally: conn.close()`. Switch
the 42 leak-prone call sites in `hermes_cli/kanban.py` (35),
`hermes_cli/kanban_decompose.py` (4), and `hermes_cli/kanban_specify.py`
(3) over to it.
`kanban.py` matters because `run_slash` (called from the gateway for
every `/kanban` slash command) parses argparse and dispatches to those
`_cmd_*` functions in-process — each one was leaking one FD per
invocation.
Tests inside `tests/` are untouched: short-lived processes where OS
cleanup masks the leak. Regression tests added in
`test_kanban_db.py` cover both happy-path and exception-path closure,
plus an explicit assertion that bare `with kb.connect()` still does
NOT close (documenting the upstream sqlite3 behaviour we're working
around).
Closes#33159.
Adds an --ids flag to 'hermes kanban promote' mirroring the existing
block/schedule convention, so the marquee use case from issue #28822
(promote all children of a closed organizational parent in one shot)
doesn't require a shell loop. Single-id JSON output stays a flat
object for back-compat; bulk emits a list. Dedupes positional + --ids
so the same id can't be promoted twice in one call. 5 new CLI-level
tests cover bulk happy path, partial-failure exit code, JSON shapes,
and dedup.
Also adds the thedavidmurray noreply-email -> github-login mapping in
scripts/release.py so the salvage cherry-pick passes the AUTHOR_MAP
contributor-credit check.
Adds `hermes kanban promote <task_id>` for manual lifecycle recovery
when an auto-promote daemon misses the parent-done transition (issue
#28822). Refuses promotion unless every parent dep is done/archived
(override with --force). Emits a `promoted_manual` audit event distinct
from the automatic `promoted` kind, so audit consumers can filter
human-driven from system-driven promotions. Supports --dry-run and
--json for orchestration. Does not mutate assignee/claim state — the
dispatcher picks the card up via its normal ready polling path.
Closes#28822.
Salvages #24533 by @roycepersonalassistant. Adds a first-class
'scheduled' Kanban status for time-delay follow-ups that aren't
waiting on human input.
- hermes kanban schedule <task_id> [reason] CLI command
- Dashboard/API transitions to/from Scheduled
- unblock_task() now releases both 'blocked' AND 'scheduled' tasks
(re-checking parent dependencies before moving to ready/todo)
- i18n + docs updates
Resolved conflicts: kept HEAD's failure-counter reset on unblock
alongside the PR's scheduled state, kept HEAD's 'running' direct-set
rejection, combined both bulk-status branches. Dropped the dist/
bundle changes (months-stale; would need rebuild from source).
Salvages #26496 by @aqilaziz. Adds branch_name column + CLI flag so
tasks with workspace_kind='worktree' can pin a target branch on
create. Schema migration added to _migrate_add_optional_columns.
- Task.branch_name field + DB column + migration
- create_task accepts branch_name kwarg
- hermes kanban create --branch <name> flag
- kanban show output includes 'Branch: <name>' when set
Cherry-picked the substantive commit (a7558cf27); the PR's tip was
an unrelated service-path-dirs commit. Resolved 2 INSERT-column-list
and show-output conflicts alongside main's session_id and
max_runtime_seconds additions; kept all three.
PR #28454 (salvage of #26745, workflow filter) merged with leftover
git conflict markers in hermes_cli/kanban.py at three sites:
- _task_to_dict() (session_id alongside workflow_template_id/current_step_key)
- p_list parser (--sort alongside --workflow-template-id/--step-key)
- _cmd_list (order_by alongside the new filter kwargs)
Cleans up the markers and keeps both halves at each site.
Resolves a self-introduced regression.
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