SQLite dynamic typing lets a TEXT cell ('not-a-timestamp'), inf/nan or a
garbage double (8.4e252 salvaged from a damaged page) sit in a REAL
timestamp column. Every reader called datetime.fromtimestamp()/float
arithmetic on the raw cell, so ONE bad row raised TypeError/OverflowError
out of the row loop and took down the whole `hermes sessions list`/browse
table (#102399), all three exporters — JSONL/MD, QMD, HTML (#102352) —
and `hermes insights` (#99959).
Fix the class with ONE helper, hermes_cli.timefmt.coerce_epoch(): a
stored cell becomes float epoch seconds inside a sane 1970..2103 window
or None after a WARNING that names the session id. Every reader routes
through it — relative_time (list/browse/resume picker), format_epoch
(prune/candidates tables), the three exporters' timestamp formatters,
insights' _get_sessions/_day/period range — so a bad row renders as
'?'/'N/A'/raw text for that one cell and the command completes.
Write side: hermes_state_messages._coerce_timestamp (append_message,
append_messages_batch, import) and the import path's started_at now use
the same window, so a new out-of-range timestamp falls back to now()
instead of being persisted — new bad rows cannot be written by Hermes.
Reported-by: #102399, #102352, #99959 reporters; kokhlo's insights
analysis pointed at every reporting site, not just line 860.
- tests/agent/test_session_activity.py asserts against
ACTIVITY_DESCRIPTION_MAX instead of the literal 120.
- The session-stall WARNING log line names its config knob
(agent.session_stall_timeout) so operators can find the setting.
- hermes_state.py: collapse the triple blank line near line 191.
- hermes_cli/status.py no longer imports the private
hermes_cli.main._relative_time: the helper moved to a public home
(hermes_cli.timefmt.relative_time); main._relative_time stays as a
thin back-compat wrapper (sessions_cmd and external patchers keep
working).
teknium1