Renaming a profile moved profiles/<old>/ to profiles/<new>/, so the row DATA
travelled with the directory, but the profile name is also baked into
keys/values the move left untouched: session keys (agent:<old>:* namespace),
sessions.profile_name (fail-closed owner ladder / Desktop sidebar scope /
@session: deep links), sessions.origin_json.profile,
gateway_heartbeats.profile, delivery_obligations (session_key +
adapter_profile), telegram_dm_topic_* profile_name bindings, and the
gateway_routing index. Left stale, every inbound event on a chat keyed to the
old name resolved to a profile that no longer exists — flooding errors.log
with "Profile <old> does not exist ... falling back to global HERMES_HOME"
every few seconds — and renamed sessions dropped out of the sidebar / broke
their deep links.
The routing index is held in memory by a live multiplexer and written back
periodically, so a CLI-side DB rewrite alone is clobbered. Fix in layers:
- SessionDB.rekey_profile_state: atomic durable rewrite of the state.db
tables, matching the agent:<name>: namespace by exact prefix (substr, not
LIKE — '_' is a legal profile-name character and a LIKE wildcard), rewriting
the profile inside routing/origin JSON, and REFUSING on a target collision
(routing rows or telegram bindings) instead of silently merging.
- SessionStore.rekey_profile_routing: rekey the in-memory routing index
(keys + origin.profile) then persist — the half a DB write cannot reach.
Raises on a target-key collision before mutating.
- Control verb migrate-profile-identity (params-carrying; the socket passes
params only to handlers that declare them, bare handlers unchanged) so a
live gateway rekeys its in-memory copy AND both durable stores (routing home
+ the renamed profile's own state.db).
- rename_profile calls the verb when a multiplexer is live and, if it fails,
does NOT fall back to a racing CLI-side write: it prints a warning telling
the operator to restart the gateway and retry. With no live gateway it
performs the durable rewrite itself (safe: nothing else holds the store
open).
Checkpoints keyed by the profile's workdir path are a known related gap,
tracked separately, not addressed here.
Tests: rekey_profile_state (all tables, routing/origin JSON, collisions,
idempotent, no-op), rekey_profile_routing (namespace + origin, no-op, no
overwrite), control verb param passing, and rename end-to-end for both the
live-gateway (delegates, refuses unsafe fallback) and no-gateway (durable
rewrite) paths.
_notif_gateway_owns_heartbeat decided by the immutable sessions.source column,
so a heartbeat on an ARCHIVED gateway-sourced row (Telegram /reset, idle/daily
auto-reset, compression rotation) was skipped by the Desktop poller and never
registered by the gateway either — restore_heartbeat_watches only claims a key
whose current session_id is that row. The tick belonged to nobody and stayed
due forever, where origin/main's Desktop fired it.
Ownership now uses the same predicate the gateway does: a gateway_routing entry
whose current session_id is this session, with an origin and not suspended
(SessionDB.gateway_routing_entry_for_session; both the session's profile store
and the launch store are consulted so multiplexed and per-profile gateways are
covered). No entry is fail-open, as on main. The check runs after the cheap
is_active/is_due gate so idle sessions never touch the DB per poll.
Probe (SessionStore telegram -> force_new, heartbeat on the archived sid):
before: desktop fired False / gateway watches [] / still due True;
after: desktop fired True / still due False; the current gateway sid is still
left to the gateway (desktop fired False) — the hijack fix stays intact.
hermes_state.py: delete every '# noqa: F401 (re-exported...)' import block (hermes_state_common/errors/guard/
readpool/sessions/fts/dbfile/wal/repair/registry + agent.context_compressor _DB_PERSISTED_MARKER_KEY); keep
only the names hermes_state.py itself uses, without noqa.
hermes_state_registry.py: drop get_shared_session_db/release_shared_session_db/close_shared_session_dbs
aliases; every caller (gateway/, tools/, tui_gateway/, cron/, mcp_serve, run_agent, tests) now imports
acquire/release/close_all/release_or_close from hermes_state_registry.
hermes_state_titles.py: drop set_auto_title_if_empty shim (title_generator keeps its getattr fallback).
Re-remove shim-only names restored by 34abf954bd: latest_user_message_row_id (tests call
latest_message_row_id(key, role='user'); role-targeting assertions kept) and get_session_activity (tests
build the snapshot via agent.session_activity.build_activity_snapshot over db.get_session(sid)).
hermes_state_wal._log_once resolves its dedupe sets as module globals instead of via hermes_state;
hermes_state_repair helpers call module globals directly (tests patch hermes_state_repair.<name>).
Frozen updater surface untouched (update_cmd_maint imports only SessionDB from hermes_state).
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.
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