Promote _split_model_config_default to hermes_cli/config.py as the single
shared helper for flattening dict-valued model.default/model.model config.
All 8 defense-in-depth sites now route through it instead of inlining
their own isinstance checks with inconsistent key orders.
Changes:
- Add split_model_config_default() to hermes_cli/config.py (public)
- cli.py: _split_model_config_default delegates to shared helper
- Fix key extraction order: agent_runtime_helpers.py was reversed
(default->model); now consistent (model->default) across all sites
- Remove provider-as-model-name fallback from main.py, oneshot.py,
model_tools.py, cli.py — provider is a routing key, not a model ID
- Add 'name' to _normalize_root_model_keys flattening loop and
_has_nested_default detection to cover the deprecated model.name alias
Tests: 118 passed + 1 skipped (cli_init, managed_scope, config).
E2E: 31/31 passed (config chokepoint, managed scope, crash site,
negative cases, edge cases).
A dict-valued model.default (e.g. {provider:..., model:...}) in config.yaml
was leaking into agent.model and crashing the agent at init:
AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'lower'
agent/agent_runtime_helpers.py: anthropic_prompt_cache_policy
This manifested on the Telegram gateway as an infinite reset loop: every
turn built an agent with model=dict, crashed during init, the gateway
treated the failed turn as a session needing reset, and /reset rebuilt the
agent and crashed again.
Coerce dict -> string at every model-resolution entry point so the value
is normalized once and never reaches a .lower() call as a dict:
- agent/agent_runtime_helpers.py: anthropic_prompt_cache_policy (the crash site)
- agent/agent_init.py: configured default model resolution
- cli.py: CLI config model + _normalize_model_for_provider
- hermes_cli/main.py: _has_any_provider_configured
- hermes_cli/oneshot.py: _run_agent model resolution
- hermes_cli/runtime_provider.py: _get_model_config default handling
- model_tools.py: _resolve_active_context_length
Review follow-up (egilewski): the previous commit only hedged the guidance
text; the exact Anthropic 400 was still classified, persisted, and surfaced
as confirmed billing exhaustion. Carry the ambiguity all the way through:
- agent/error_classifier.py: 'out of extra usage' matches on the 400 and
status-less paths now attach error_context {billing_unverified,
possible_content_filter}. Reason stays FailoverReason.billing (rotation +
fallback remain the right recovery either way); ClassifiedError grows a
billing_unverified property.
- agent/credential_pool.py: new FAILURE_REASON_BILLING_UNVERIFIED. An
unverified billing exhaustion gets the short transient cooldown instead of
the one-hour bench, regardless of pool size: a content-filter rejection
leaves the credential healthy and fails identically on every key, and the
hour-long sole-credential latch is what replayed the stored error and made
real fixes look ineffective. A true 402 keeps the full bench. The marker
persists with the entry so a restart cannot upgrade it back to a bench.
- agent/agent_runtime_helpers.py + run_agent.py: recover_with_credential_pool
threads billing_unverified and hands the pool 'billing_unverified' as the
persisted failure_reason.
- agent/conversation_loop.py: the fallback-switch status, max-retries status,
terminal label, and both structured terminal results hedge when the verdict
is unverified. New _billing_terminal_label + _billing_failure_result build
the returned terminal response in one place; the result dict now carries
billing_unverified and the billing_block gains 'unverified': true. The
confirmed-billing path (a real 402 or an API-key credit depletion) keeps
the original assertive wording, so the caveat no longer dilutes it.
Regression tests: classifier marking (400 + status-less + unambiguous-body
negative), pool cooldown TTLs + persistence round-trip, pool failure_reason
plumbing, and the returned terminal response for both unverified and
confirmed verdicts.
Note: tests/agent/test_credential_pool_routing.py::TestFailureAttribution::
test_unmatched_key_does_not_retry_only_pool_entry fails identically on
current main without this change (pre-existing, unrelated).
When agent.provider == "moa", the MoAClient facade *is* the client - there is
no real OpenAI wire endpoint behind the moa://local placeholder. Client rebuilds
(_replace_primary_openai_client: stream-retry pool cleanup, credential rotation,
dead-connection cleanup, fallback+restore) go through create_openai_client and
produce a native OpenAI client while provider stays "moa". The next primary
call then either raises a `_moa_prepared_request` TypeError (#78382) or, when
_client_kwargs carry an unrelated relay base_url, leaks the request to a foreign
gateway (observed as HTTP 503 "group ... no available channel" from an
unrelated new-api relay right after an aggregator empty-stream retry).
Fix: in create_openai_client, when provider is "moa", return
build_moa_facade(agent, model) instead of a native client. This covers every
rebuild entry point. The three already-fixed call sites
(restore_primary_runtime, try_recover_primary_transport, switch_model) assign
the facade directly and do not go through create_openai_client, so they are
unaffected.
Closes#78382
The dedup pass in sanitize_api_messages (introduced by #58327) can
produce an empty tool_calls array when all tool_call_ids in a message
are duplicates of earlier messages in a long conversation history.
DeepSeek v4 and newer OpenAI reject empty tool_calls with HTTP 400:
'Invalid messages[N].tool_calls: empty array'.
When kept_tcs is empty after dedup, drop the tool_calls key entirely
instead of writing tool_calls: [].
Fixes#64335
The keepalive httpx client uses read=None, and stranger-thread abort cannot close FDs, so a DeepSeek stall on the cron inline path waited until TCP died — hours past the 600s watchdog. Inject a per-call read timeout matching the stale budget, walk in-flight pool requests, and clear the socket timeout before shutdown without releasing the FD.
Port of the bug class from earendil-works/pi#7933 (DeepSeek base-URL
detection matched by raw substring, missing case variants and matching
lookalike URLs). Hermes had the same class at five sites:
- cli_agent_setup_mixin.py: keyless-custom-endpoint detection treated any
URL containing the OpenRouter host substring (path segment, lookalike
domain) as OpenRouter, and missed case variants of the real host.
- models.py validate_requested_model: same substring check for routing an
openrouter provider with a custom base_url to the custom catalog.
- runtime_provider.py: local-endpoint autodetect matched the string
localhost anywhere in the URL, including remote hostnames containing it.
- gateway/run.py: /status endpoint display, same local-host substring.
- agent_runtime_helpers.py: Nous Portal cache-layout detection matched
the nousresearch substring anywhere in the URL.
All sites now use the existing base_url_host_matches / base_url_hostname
helpers (exact host or subdomain, case-insensitive). Regression tests
proven to fail against the old predicates.
- /model switch now refreshes agent._custom_providers from the config
loaded during the switch before re-evaluating cache policy — a
prompt_caching flag added to config.yaml after session start was
invisible to a mid-session switch (policy read the stale init-time
snapshot while context_length resolution used the live list).
- Production-path test: real config.yaml in the modern providers: dict
shape through the real loader chain, exercising the init-order fallback
(no _custom_providers attr) for both the fable opt-in and the opus
explicit opt-out.
- Pin operator kill-switch precedence: _cache_disabled (prompt_caching.
cache_ttl falsy) beats an explicit per-model prompt_caching: true.
- Log (debug) instead of silently swallowing capability-lookup failures in
anthropic_prompt_cache_policy — a swallowed failure would otherwise
downgrade an explicit prompt_caching: true to (False, False) with zero
trace. Matches the sibling MoA branch's logger.debug style.
- Use load_config_readonly() for the None-fallback in
get_custom_provider_model_capability: the helper only reads, and the
fallback fires on the blank-stub paths (agent init before
_custom_providers is assigned, MoA/auxiliary destination planning), so
skip the ~135us defensive deepcopy per call.
- Add route-isolation regression tests at both levels (config helper +
agent policy): a prompt_caching declaration for one provider route must
never apply to another route with the same model name. Mutation-checked:
both tests fail when the URL match is disabled.
Simplify-pass follow-ups on the salvage stack (all guard tests re-run,
mutation-checked):
1. conversation_loop.py: moved `_preflight_compression_blocked = False`
from 9 per-site copies into the restart_with_rebuilt_messages handler
(its single consumer). Besides removing the 9 duplicated blocks, this
fixes a 10th pre-existing retry-loop site (content-filter stall
failover, #32421) that set the flag and broke WITHOUT clearing the
preflight block — a content-filter failover previously restarted with
preflight compression still blocked against the fallback's smaller
window, the same #84733 bug class. The outer-loop empty-response site
keeps its own clear (it never passes through the handler). New AST
guard test_restart_handler_clears_preflight_block pins the hoisted
clear (mutation-checked).
2. agent_runtime_helpers.py: extracted _raw_cache_ttl_from_config() —
prompt_caching_disabled_from_config and configured_cache_ttl were
verbatim copies of the same config read. Added VALID_CACHE_TTLS.
3. prompt_caching.py: added is_qwen_model() next to
ALIBABA_FAMILY_PROVIDERS; effective_cache_ttl and
anthropic_prompt_cache_policy now share both the family set and the
qwen predicate — neither can desync.
4. Guard-test hardening: assert every _try_activate_fallback reference
is a direct `if agent._try_activate_fallback(...):` site, so a future
`activated = ...` form can't silently escape the restart-discipline
guard.
Follow-ups on the salvaged #84782 (webtecnica):
1. conversation_loop.py: the empty-response fallback site sits directly
in the OUTER iteration loop, not the retry loop. The salvaged commit's
`break` there exited the conversation loop and ended the turn without
ever calling the just-activated fallback (caught by CI:
test_empty_response_triggers_fallback_provider). Restored `continue`
(which already re-runs the pre-API preflight at the top of the next
outer iteration) while keeping the `_preflight_compression_blocked`
reset. The other 9 sites are inside the retry loop, where `break` to
the restart_with_rebuilt_messages handler is correct.
2. test_prompt_cache_ttl_propagation.py: made the AST guard loop-aware —
retry-loop sites must break, outer-loop sites must continue (the old
assertion pinned the bug in (1)). Mutation-checked both directions.
3. test_failover_identity.py: added `model` to the SimpleNamespace agent
fixture — _redecorate_prompt_cache_for_provider now reads agent.model
for the per-destination TTL clamp (2 CI failures).
4. prompt_caching.py / agent_runtime_helpers.py: single source of truth
for the alibaba-family provider set — ALIBABA_FAMILY_PROVIDERS lives
in prompt_caching and anthropic_prompt_cache_policy imports it, so the
cache-policy opt-in and the TTL clamp can never desync.
5. auxiliary_client.py: threaded the configured tier into
_replan_synchronous_cache_sections via new configured_cache_ttl()
(no live agent on that path) — the aux half of #84733's report also
stopped regressing 1h to 5m. Guarded by
TestAuxFallbackReplanThreadsTtl (mutation-checked).
6. Dropped the redundant `or "5m"` at the two threaded call sites —
effective_cache_ttl already resolves None to "5m", and the `or`
masked the cache-disabled (None) semantics.
New desktop_ui tool: the agent proposes an MCP server (install/enable/
authorize + a one-line reason) and blocks on mcp.setup.request until the
renderer's consent card answers mcp.setup.respond with the outcome
(installed/enabled/authorized/declined/unanswered/error). Same lifecycle
as clarify: 10-min timeout, allow_expired late answers, tool lifecycle
events forced on so the card mounts even with tool progress off. Desktop
prompt hint steers the model to the tool instead of hand-editing config;
every other surface keeps the schema out and is pointed at hermes mcp
install.
Follow-up fixes on top of the salvaged #83678 commit:
1. Hoist the MiniMax-M3 marker exclusion ABOVE the native-Anthropic
early return. provider="anthropic" pointed at a MiniMax /anthropic
proxy is a supported override (_anthropic_base_url_override_ok), and
the is_native_anthropic branch matched on provider alone — returning
(True, True) before the M3 exclusion was reached. Two regression
tests pin the proxy route (M3 off, M2.7 still on).
2. Reuse the existing _model_name_suggests_minimax_m3() helper from
agent/model_metadata.py instead of a second inline substring copy.
3. Drop the debug kwarg on normalize_usage() — it had zero production
callers and duplicated standard logging level gating. The
cache-observability line is now a plain logger.debug scoped to
MiniMax providers on the Anthropic wire only, so the "+128 floor"
note can no longer appear for native Anthropic where it is false.
Tests updated accordingly (MiniMax logs, native Anthropic does not).
MiniMax-M3 ships server-side automatic prefix caching on the
Anthropic-compatible endpoint (content-keyed, no marker needed —
see platform.minimax.io/docs/api-reference/text-prompt-caching).
cache_control markers are NOT on its explicit-cache support list
(which covers only M2.7/M2.5/M2.1/M2).
Emitting markers on M3:
- wasted serialization overhead
- risked perturbing the server-side prefix hash
- gave users a false sense of explicit-cache savings (the
cache_read_input_tokens field carries a +128 constant floor
and cache_creation_input_tokens is always 0 for M3)
Also add an opt-in debug=True parameter to normalize_usage() that
emits a debug-level log line carrying the observable cache fields.
This is the only reliable cache signal for M3 — off by default,
debug-level, scoped to the anthropic_messages wire, so production
callers see no impact.
Pin both changes with 8 new tests:
- 4 M3 tests covering provider, host, and custom-provider paths
- 1 regression guard ensuring M2.x caching is unaffected
- 3 observability tests (off-by-default, on-with-M3, on-with-Claude)
Verified end-to-end against api.minimaxi.com/anthropic/v1/messages
with MiniMax-M3[1m]: identical system prompt hit-rate with and
without markers; cache_read field is unreliable (128 floor),
input_tokens drop (8467 -> 1) is the real hit signal.
Desktop-gated (desktop_ui toolset) metadata-only window awareness: the agent
can ask which application window sits directly behind the Hermes window
(app, title, bounds — never pixels). Rides the same blocking bridge as
read_terminal: the gateway emits window.read.request and the renderer
answers window.read.respond.
Review follow-up (W1): the pre-send transcript sanitizer
(agent_runtime_helpers.sanitize_tool_call_arguments) runs on the
PERSISTED messages list before every api_messages build and rewrites any
json.loads-failing argument string to "{}" in the transcript, prepending
a corruption marker to the paired tool result. That in-transcript repair
is deliberate (the stored turn must be replayable next call), but it
destroys the model's original bytes — for a truncated write_file call
those bytes are the user's streamed file content (#80498), and they
previously survived only as an 80-char log preview.
Until a sidecar-preservation design exists, make the bytes recoverable:
both destruction sites (the transcript sanitizer's WARNING and
_repair_tool_call_arguments' unrepairable-path WARNING) now log the full
original argument string bounded at 100KB instead of 80 chars. Corrupted
calls are rare; an oversized WARNING is a fair price for the only copy
of real user content.
* feat(agent): read_preview — the desktop-gated tool that reads the in-app browser
The agent could open the preview pane (open_preview) and read the embedded
terminal (read_terminal), but the browser it had just opened was a black box —
'what does this page say?' had no answer. read_preview mirrors read_terminal
end to end: HERMES_DESKTOP-gated via check_fn (zero schema footprint outside
the GUI), dispatched through the same agent callback pattern, windowed with
start/count so a long page pages instead of flooding context.
* feat(gateway): preview.read blocking bridge
Same lifecycle as terminal.read: the tool blocks on preview.read.request, the
renderer answers preview.read.respond (allow_expired — a slow page extraction
losing the 45s race must not surface a raw 4009), and a timeout emits
preview.read.expire so late answers resolve quietly.
* feat(desktop): the renderer serializes the active preview tab for the agent
preview-reader.ts is the preview analog of the terminal's buffer registry: the
URL pane registers a page reader (webview executeJavaScript → title + visible
innerText) keyed by tab id; readActivePreview resolves the ACTIVE tab, windows
the text (24k cap per read), and answers file/artifact tabs with identity plus
a note pointing at the tool that reads that content directly. The gateway
event handler answers preview.read.request beside terminal.read.request.
The sole-credential cooldown sized the bench from the raw HTTP status, but
403 is overloaded: error_classifier maps OpenRouter's "key limit exceeded"
and xAI's spending-limit block to FailoverReason.billing, while an edge
throttle with the same status is transient. Only 402 was excluded from the
short cooldown, so a spent account on a single key retried every 60 seconds
and re-failed forever.
Thread the classified reason from recover_with_credential_pool through
mark_exhausted_and_rotate to _exhausted_ttl. Billing keeps the full bench
regardless of status; everything else transient still recovers in 60s. The
verdict is stored on the entry (_EXTRA_KEYS, so it persists to auth.json) —
without that a restart would re-read a bare 403 and downgrade the bench.
Tests: sole billing-403 stays benched, survives reload, unclassified 403
still recovers; call-site coverage that the reason actually reaches the pool.
Three existing kwargs assertions updated for the new argument.
Replace the fixed 60-second cooldown with exponential backoff:
30min → 1h → 2h → 4h cap.
The counter is reset by restore_primary_runtime on successful
primary-provider recovery, so the backoff is strictly for
consecutive failures within a single degradation window.
Closes#29702
restore_primary_runtime retries the primary every turn once the 60s
transient cooldown clears. For subscription-window limits (Claude
Pro/Max 5h windows, Codex weekly caps) the reset is hours or days away,
so every retry is a guaranteed failure costing two provider switches
and two prompt-cache invalidations per turn.
Add CredentialPool.next_available_at() (earliest reset across exhausted
entries; None when available now or no reset info) and gate the restore
on it: skip while the primary's pool says nobody can serve, restore on
the first turn after the reset elapses. Fail-open: any gate error or
missing reset info falls through to the existing per-turn retry, so
recovery can never be later than today. Cross-provider fallbacks
consult the PRIMARY's pool (not the attached fallback pool), reusing
the loaded pool for the existing rebind to keep auth reads at one per
restore.
OpenCode Zen's relay rejects the Anthropic-style content block format
that cache markers produce (content becomes a block array instead of a
plain string), causing HTTP 400 with "content must be string, not block
array" for DeepSeek models.
Reverts the DeepSeek addition from commit 6b6435a874 while preserving
the Qwen/Alibaba caching path which continues to work.
Fixes#77217
Simplify-pass follow-up on the #69653 salvage: the original code built
these patterns from a name loop; hand-expanding them into 10 literals
lost that single source. Tag-name tuples restore it (adding a 6th
reasoning tag is now a one-place change), and the gnarly named-function
pattern regained a pointer to its step-1c rationale. Byte-equivalence
of every rebuilt pattern verified programmatically (alternation-order
neutrality probed: the \b and > anchors make order irrelevant).
strip_think_blocks passed the same response-scrubbing strings through
re's pattern dispatcher on every response. Skills Guard repeated the
same work for 121 patterns against every scanned line.
Compile the existing expressions once and reuse Pattern.sub/search. Keep
each generic tool-call tag in its own paired expression so mismatched
openers retain their payload while existing stray-closer cleanup remains
unchanged.
Part of #33208
Salvaged from #32713 by @ErnestHysa.
Co-authored-by: ErnestHysa <takis312@hotmail.com>
Follow-ups from review of #76113:
- Extract cache_ttl_means_disabled() as the single disable-synonym
predicate; agent_init and prompt_caching_disabled_from_config both use
it so the two detection sites can no longer drift (drift would recreate
the #76085 bug class).
- Mirror _run_reference's not-None injection guard in
aggregate_moa_context (stamping None was a harmless no-op copy).
- Replace a vacuous trailing test assertion with the intended
input-non-mutation check; drop a stray blank line.
- Add a predicate-parity regression test (unknown TTL values keep
caching enabled, matching historical agent_init semantics).
Absorb the useful deltas from the parallel #76121 approach: a single
blank_cache_policy_stub factory so _cache_disabled cannot be left off
hand-rolled SimpleNamespaces, and pin the live agent disable onto MoA
advisor fan-out and one-shot aggregate_moa_context decoration so those
paths track conversation state rather than a fresh config re-read.
Keeps the earlier tri-state prepared-aggregator no-agent fix. Adds
factory and synthesis/advisor regressions.
Coordinates with #76121 / #76085.
Co-authored-by: JoaoMarcos44 <87440198+JoaoMarcos44@users.noreply.github.com>
Blank SimpleNamespace stubs used by MoA decoration and
plan_cache_sections_for_destination never set _cache_disabled, so
anthropic_prompt_cache_policy re-injected cache_control markers after
operators turned caching off. Stamp the disable onto those stubs from
an explicit flag or the live config, and pass the agent flag from the
MoA aggregator path.
Fixes#76085
Three copies of the same logic landed with #76032:
- MoA's _call_prepared_aggregator and auxiliary_client's
_replan_synchronous_cache_sections both implemented stub → policy →
strip → plan for a resolved destination. Extract
plan_cache_sections_for_destination() into agent_runtime_helpers (which
already owns the policy functions) and route both through it. Also
removes a redundant full-transcript deepcopy+strip per request (the
caller pre-stripped what build_prompt_cache_plan strips again).
- The fallback_chain[N] label regex + chain-entry lookup lived in
_fallback_entry_timeout AND _fallback_destination. Extract
_fallback_chain_entry() and reuse.
MoA's cache-plan failure log is promoted debug → warning: the call-block
site skips MoA, so this block is the aggregator's only decoration path —
a silent failure ships an undecorated request (the 0%-cache MoA bug class).
Behavior-preserving; 195 targeted tests green.
Follow-up to #76032 (#20880).
Setting prompt_caching.cache_ttl to a falsy value (false, null, off,
disabled, no, none) now fully disables prompt caching instead of
being silently ignored.
The disable propagates through anthropic_prompt_cache_policy() (early
return when _cache_disabled flag is set) and restore_primary_runtime()
(override after snapshot restore), so it survives /model switches and
fallback re-derivation — the gap that caused #56105 to be reverted in
#56126.
Salvage of #33555 by @BB-light, with model-switch/fallback survival
gap fixed on top.
Co-authored-by: BB-light <BB-light@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot degrades in two related ways that both abort a turn as non-retryable
and only clear on a gateway restart (a cold process re-runs the token exchange):
1. HTTP 400 model_not_available_for_integrator / model_not_supported — a
raw/degraded token routes to the restricted copilot-language-server
integrator whose allowlist omits enterprise-only models (e.g.
claude-opus-4.8). Because it is a 400 (not 401), the existing 401 refresh
path never fired. Prevented (retry-with-backoff exchange + on-disk JWT
persistence + header guard at the client chokepoint) and self-healed at
runtime (single-shot forced re-exchange + client rebuild + retry before
fallback).
2. HTTP 401 'IDE token expired: unauthorized: token expired' — the short-TTL
*exchanged* IDE token expires mid-turn. The clean-401 path DID fire and call
_try_refresh_copilot_client_credentials(), but that method only re-resolved
the stable raw ghu_ token and rebuilt the client — it never evicted the
cached exchanged JWT or forced a fresh exchange, so the retry put the SAME
expired token back on the wire, 401'd again, and the single-shot guard
aborted the turn. Fix: force a fresh IDE-token exchange (evict cached JWT via
evict_cached_exchanged_token + re-mint via get_copilot_api_token) before the
client rebuild, mirroring the merged auxiliary-path recovery (#59837) and the
400 recovery in this same PR. Graceful fallback to the resolved token if the
exchange endpoint is unreachable; picks up the enterprise base_url on
re-exchange.
Brings main-loop clean-401 recovery to parity with the merged auxiliary path
(#59837), using the newer on-disk-aware evict helper. Companion context: #58743
(this PR, expanded), #51313, #63204 (which assumed the 401 path already
recovered — it reached the method but the method was too weak).
Tests: exchange retry/persist round-trip, restart-blip disk reuse, stale-cred
400 classifier, 400 recovery, and 3 new 401 cases (fresh exchanged token on the
wire; network-blip fallback to resolved token). 58 copilot tests green on
current main.
Three provably-safe optimizations for O(n)-per-iteration history walks:
1. sanitize_tool_call_arguments: optional identity-keyed cursor (strong
refs to the exact validated message objects) skips re-json.loads-ing
already-validated history each loop iteration. Any list rewrite
(compression, repair, undo, steer) breaks the identity prefix match
and forces re-scan from the divergence point. Wired via a per-agent
cursor dict in conversation_loop.
2. estimate_messages_tokens_rough: per-message memo keyed on a deep
identity fingerprint (strings pinned by strong reference so id()
aliasing is impossible; scalars by value; dicts/lists structurally
with key order). Equal fingerprints imply identical str(shadow)
bytes, hence identical estimates. Unfingerprintable shapes fall
through to direct compute. Bounded FIFO cache (4096 entries).
3. _flush_messages_to_session_db_unlocked: bounded scan that skips the
identity-matched prefix of the previous successful flush's snapshot.
Snapshot only taken on full success; cleared on exception. Compression
rewrites use fresh copies, breaking identity and forcing full re-scan.
Parity proven in tests/agent/test_cursor_optimizations_parity.py:
500-message synthetic histories with tool calls, malformed args, unicode,
element-wise old==new across 3 iterations incl. simulated compression.
Measured (median of 5): sanitize 0.097ms->0.011ms, tokens 1.145ms->0.853ms,
persist-scan 179.5us->10.0us at 500 messages.
Salvage of PR #52188. The original PR raised RuntimeError when LM Studio
load was rejected or unverifiable, which would abort agent startup on
transient network failures. Replace with logger.warning + fallback to
configured context length, preserving the old graceful-degradation behavior.
With HTTP(S)_PROXY (and similar mounted transports), live connections sit
on client._mounts rather than the default _transport. force_close_tcp_sockets
only walked the default pool, so stranger-thread interrupt abort logged
tcp_force_closed=0 and left the request alive for minutes (#72975). Also
walk nested proxy _connection wrappers and WARNING when an abort finds no
sockets.
The concept 'never send a turn that strict wire validation rejects as
empty' was forked across four sites, each with its own predicate and its
own blind spots:
1. build_assistant_message write-time ' ' pad — broke codex commentary
turns (content:'' is a designed state), and a DB-side pad can't
survive _rows_to_conversation's whitespace strip anyway. REMOVED.
2. conversation_loop send-time ' ' pad — main-loop only (summary path
uncovered), ordering-fragile (had to run after whitespace
normalization), assistant-only. REMOVED.
3. stream-stub '[response interrupted]' substitution — defeated the
loop's empty-stub guard (the stub no longer looked empty, entered
history, and the placeholder leaked into the stitched final
response via truncated_response_parts). REMOVED.
4. repair_empty_non_final_messages in sanitize_api_messages — the
unconditional pre-send chokepoint shared by the main loop AND the
summary path, covers user and assistant turns, non-final only,
copy-on-write. This is now the SINGLE OWNER.
The owner's payload predicate (_msg_has_payload) is extended to treat
codex_message_items / codex_reasoning_items as payload, so
designed-empty codex commentary turns are never rewritten on any
api_mode — the failure shape that broke site 1 in CI is encoded in the
owner, not special-cased at a call site.
Tests updated to pin the new contracts: builder stores textless turns
as-is; the empty stream stub stays recognizably empty for the loop
guard; poisoned resumed histories are repaired to the placeholder at
the send boundary; codex item carriers are never rewritten.
Sabotage-verified: unwiring the owner fails 3 regression tests.
Third layer of the empty-stub fix: full self-recovery. A poisoned transcript
(empty assistant stub or empty user turn already persisted before the write-
time guard, or fed in from a host history) previously 400'd every subsequent
request until it scrolled out — needing a manual DB edit + gateway restart.
sanitize_api_messages() (the unconditional pre-send chokepoint) now repairs
empty non-final messages on the per-call copy by substituting a minimal
'[response interrupted]' placeholder, so the session recovers itself IN MEMORY
on the very next send. The final message is left untouched (empty final
assistant is legal); stored history is never mutated; reasoning-only and
tool_call turns are preserved (negative controls).
Tests: production-shape repro (tool -> empty assistant -> user), empty-user
case, non-destructive guarantee, and negative controls. RED verified by
disabling the wire-in.
Follow-ups to the salvaged #23768 commit, which targeted a pre-79559214
codebase:
- agent/tool_executor.py + agent/agent_runtime_helpers.py: pass
multi_select at both current clarify dispatch points (the PR's
run_agent.py edits landed on dead code paths).
- tools/clarify_tool.py: replace the broad TypeError-retry in
_invoke_callback with inspect.signature detection, so a compatible
callback that raises TypeError internally is not invoked twice
(addresses hermes-sweeper review feedback on #23768).
- tests: cover single-invocation on internal TypeError, legacy 2-arg
callbacks, **kwargs callbacks, and registry handler multi_select
pass-through (schema arg → handler → callback).
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