Programs run via terminal(background=true, pty=true) can block forever when
they probe their terminal — device-status (ESC[5n), window-size (ESC[18t),
cursor-position (ESC[6n), or DEC private-mode (ESC[?N$p) queries — because
nothing on the PTY master side answers, and the raw query bytes leak into
captured output.
- tools/pty_query_responder.py: incremental byte scanner that strips the
handled queries from PTY output (chunk splits included) and produces
bounded replies; everything else passes through untouched.
- tools/process_registry.py: wire the responder into _pty_reader_loop
(POSIX only — ConPTY answers its own queries); flush partial escape
tails at end-of-stream.
- tests mirror the codex fixtures plus a live-PTY E2E where a subprocess
blocks on ESC[6n until answered.
Carve the direct-child list reconciliation from Indigo Karasu's earliest
PR #60506 (2a96ae2cbf806ccdc3e9b584911774f32622f421), corroborated by
fangliquanflq's narrow #81385 (50ffd243d92627e4a03a3ee8427ad0f5e090c3ab).
Run the existing helper after task/session filtering and reuse the
idempotent owner-stamped completion path. Do not import cross-session
disclosure, bare-PID healing, forget RPCs, or reader rewrites.
A real-child regression fails before this change and passes after it:
the direct child exits while its descendant keeps writing to stdout;
listing reports exit without consuming the result or waiting for EOF.
Co-authored-by: fangliquanflq <fangliquan@qq.com>
Co-authored-by: Teknium <127238744+teknium1@users.noreply.github.com>
A user message sent mid-turn (CLI busy_input_mode=interrupt, gateway priority
redirect, ACP redirect) goes through AIAgent.redirect(), which during tool
execution degrades to steer() + request_yield() on the tool worker threads.
The local terminal backend's foreground wait honours the yield (adopting the
process into the background registry), but ProcessRegistry.wait() — the
process_manage(action='wait') path — never checked it: a model sitting in a
wait on an already-background process parked the user's message for up to the
full wait window (default 180s, clamp allows more).
wait() now consumes a pending yield on its own thread each poll pass and
returns status "interrupted" with process_running=true and a note telling the
model to respond to the user; the process is untouched and still
notify-tracked. The plain-interrupt and timeout paths are unchanged.
Live repro: on origin/main, request_yield() against a thread blocked in
wait(timeout=12) had no effect (wait ran to timeout); after this change the
wait releases in <1s with status=interrupted, process still running.
Port of MoonshotAI/kimi-code#3697 ("let steer interrupt background task
waits") adapted to Hermes' per-thread yield mechanism from 463292351f.
The warning fires once per process but was prefixed with the first
job's unit suffix, reading as a per-job notice for a host-level
condition. Drop the suffix; the message now says what applies to every
later dispatch.
Follow-up to the cherry-picked #102431 fix, addressing the review findings:
- The two real-helper scheduler tests ran the Linux-only helper unmarked
and failed on macOS/Windows; the surviving one is now `linux_only`.
- `_warn_scope_degraded_once` used a bare `os.getuid()` that tripped
scripts/check-windows-footguns.py --all (lint lane red). The remedy text
is now built once in the helper and passed into the warning, so the
"scope binary vanished" case no longer warns about a missing D-Bus.
- Tests trimmed to the invariant bar: degraded != in_process and warns
once (helper level); default config still Popens externally and
`require_restart_safe_scope: true` raises (scheduler level, real helper).
Dropped the stubbed duplicate, the standalone config-raise test and the
in_process half already covered by the existing passthrough test.
- `GatewayChildDispatch.reason` had no reader outside a test; removed.
- Both degrade branches share one local `_degrade(detail)`.
- The per-fire config read uses `load_config_readonly()` (no deepcopy)
with the same `except Exception` guard as the sibling
`failure_nudge_threshold` read, so a config error no longer escapes
the launcher.
- Kanban's no-run-id guard fails closed for any non-`in_process` mode
instead of matching one enum value.
- Rationale restated in six places collapsed to the helper docstring;
`cron.require_restart_safe_scope` documented in the cron user guide.
A systemd-supervised gateway (INVOCATION_ID set) with no user D-Bus
session (containers, minimal LXCs, supervisors without linger) fails
EVERY scheduled job at dispatch: restart_safe_gateway_child_argv()
raises, run_one_job() records a failure, and the only symptom is
silently skipped executions (a missed nightly backup, dead watchdogs,
no alert).
Cron now degrades to a direct external subprocess with a
once-per-process warning instead of raising, unless
cron.require_restart_safe_scope=true (config.yaml, default false)
restores fail-closed. Degraded jobs keep process separation and the
full #101940 ownership handoff - only cgroup isolation is lost, so a
mid-job gateway restart kills the worker and the execution ledger
records exactly that.
The dispatch is a GatewayChildDispatch NamedTuple (in_process /
scoped / degraded) so the degraded case can never collapse into the
"not managed, stay in-process" sentinel - the failure mode that would
recreate the restart-interruption edge #101940 closed.
Kanban stays fail-closed (require_restart_safe_scope=True at its call
sites): its workers are long-lived agentic runs, so the degrade policy
is limited to bounded cron jobs in this PR.
Addresses the #102431 review: the env-var flag became a config key per
AGENTS.md (no new HERMES_* non-secret vars), Kanban keeps fail-closed
instead of updating its tests to a degraded contract, main's
enable-linger remedy message is preserved, and the degrade warning
fires once per process.
Under `gateway.multiplex_profiles` one gateway process serves every profile
under ~/.hermes/profiles/NAME/; each routed turn runs with a context-local
HERMES_HOME override while `os.environ` still holds the DEFAULT profile's
values. Anything evaluated once at import, or memoised in a single unkeyed
module slot, therefore freezes the LAUNCH profile's value and leaks it into
every other profile's turns. This lands the tools-side half of that class:
- tools/process_registry.py, tools/environments/{modal,singularity}.py:
`_checkpoint_path()` / `_snapshot_store()` resolve `get_hermes_home()` at
call time (same seam as `tools/skills_tool._skills_dir`, so the existing
`monkeypatch.setattr(CHECKPOINT_PATH)` test sites keep working). Completes
the checkpoint_manager / sticker_cache half cherry-picked from #56315.
- plugins/platforms/feishu/feishu_comment_rules.py: `_MtimeCache` is now
path-keyed (accepts a Path or a zero-arg resolver, one (mtime, data) slot
per resolved path) with `invalidate()`; `_rules_file()` / `_pairing_file()`
resolve the routed profile's files. Proposed in #63962.
- tools/tool_output_limits.py, tools/browser_tool.py, tools/browser_camofox.py:
the process-lifetime config caches are dicts keyed by `hermes_home_key()`;
the `_X_resolved` flags and the lifecycle reset keep their shape.
tools/file_tools.py drops its private `file_read_max_chars` memo and reads
the already mtime+path-cached `load_config_readonly()`.
- hermes_time.py: `get_timezone_name()`; when `is_multiplex_active()` the
env `HERMES_TIMEZONE` (bridged from the default profile's config at gateway
startup) is ignored in favour of the routed profile's config.yaml. Both
sandbox TZ sites (code_execution_env/_tool) now use it.
- tools/cronjob_tools.py, tools/tts_tool.py, tools/skill_manager_tool.py:
the static schema text is profile-neutral and `dynamic_schema_overrides=`
rebuilds the `display_hermes_home()` / create-dir hint per
`get_definitions()`, so a routed profile's model sees its own paths.
Refs #95685.
Co-authored-by: Nathan Shan <nathanielcrush51@gmail.com>
(cherry picked from commit 6d3fc6b07b3155c6196b1fd61a829283f1d7855c)
Execute the selected no-op rather than freeze its spelling, while rejecting
/bin/true to model the NixOS failure. Mark the regression Linux-only and
retain the current user-bus environment handling.
Consolidates the earlier NixOS scope-probe report and fix in #102587 with
the PATH-independent payload from #105436. The fallback resolver is not
needed when /bin/sh is used directly.
Co-authored-by: Scott Garrand <sgarrand@gmail.com>
_user_systemd_socket_ready() accepts systemd/private alone, which is enough for
systemctl --user but not for the systemd-run --user that restart-safe workers
need; systemd_user_bus_env() requires the bus socket. Replace the uid threading
through five helpers with one _wait_for_target_user_bus(uid) that polls
/run/user/<uid>/bus, and move the post-enable wait + restart hint out of
_ensure_linger_enabled into _ensure_system_service_linger so the activity probe
runs only when linger was actually just enabled. Kanban applies the bus env
unconditionally like the cron sibling. Refs #104893.
A system-level gateway unit has no ordering against user@<uid>.service and
linger may be enabled after boot, so the bus can appear after the one-shot
adoption in run_gateway() ran. Derive XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
fresh for the availability probe and every scoped spawn (cron worker, Kanban
worker, PTY/pipe terminal spawns, scope cleanup) so the 60s failure TTL can
actually recover. Refs #104893.
Drop the 3-line facade wrapper (hermes_cli/gateway.py is already 3x the facade
threshold) and call the existing _ensure_user_systemd_env() directly under
`is_linux() and INVOCATION_ID` — the same Linux gate the process_registry seam
uses, instead of os.name == "posix". The fail-closed test now targets
_ensure_user_systemd_env() itself. Hedge the scope-unavailable error text: the
probe also returns False when systemd-run is missing or times out, so the
D-Bus diagnosis is the usual cause, not the only one.
A system-level unit (/etc/systemd/system, User=<someone>) is exec'd with neither
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR nor DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS, and a process environment is fixed
at exec time. 'systemd-run --user --scope' therefore fails for the whole lifetime
of that gateway even after the user manager is up and /run/user/<uid>/bus is
reachable. That is the seam every restart-safe worker crosses
(restart_safe_gateway_child_argv), and it fails closed by design — so on headless
systemd installs every agent-driven cron job and every Kanban dispatch died at
launch, ~26ms in, with nothing but 'error' on the job row.
_ensure_user_systemd_env() already derives both values from our own uid and adopts
them only when the runtime dir is really ours and the socket really exists; it was
just wired exclusively to the systemctl management paths, never to the gateway's
own boot. Call it from run_gateway() — the single in-process boot every entry point
goes through — so the adoption precedes every worker-environment snapshot (cron
builds its env after the scope check, Kanban before it, so fixing this at the
dispatch seam would only fix one of them).
The fail-closed posture is unchanged: with no user manager at all the probe still
reports unavailable and dispatch still refuses. That refusal now names the remedy
in the message the operator actually reads (it is stored as the cron execution's
error), instead of only the symptom.
Fixes#104893
A process that finishes while the child is alive needs no handoff, but if the child never
polls/waits/logs it, the result vanished: the completion notice is suppressed in the parent
and the child's summary never mentions it. Finalization now attaches exit code + output
tail as unread_completions, rendered in the parent's delegation notice.
A child's background processes are killed at its teardown and their
notify_on_complete notices are suppressed in the parent, yet the child's
terminal result still said `notify_on_complete: true` and the parent's
delegation notice said nothing about processes left behind. Orchestrators
believed "CI watcher running" and waited on a completion that could never
arrive (recurring in the Sep 7 campaign sessions).
- process_manage(action="handoff", session_id, data="<purpose>"), children
only: process_registry.transfer_ownership flips owner_task_id/task_id/
session_key to the parent under the registry lock, so the completion is
stamped with the parent's owner at exit, passes the parent's sa- filter,
and is reaped by the parent, not the child. Cap 3 per child; an exited,
foreign, or non-child request is a tool error. The purpose rides the
event as handoff_note and renders in the parent's notice.
- Child terminal(background=True, notify=True) now returns
notify_on_complete=false plus a note: wait, kill, or hand off.
- _ChildRun.account_background_processes records handed_off_processes and
orphaned_processes on the result before cleanup kills the leftovers; the
parent's delegation block renders both.
Capture the durable parent session before output readers start, including CLI
and non-notifying spawns. Require that parent or its compression continuation
for retained reads; exact and prefix handles alone do not authorize access.
Live Linux terminal/one-shot linger/fresh-reader A/B: base loses results;
updated owner recovers both streams and exit 7. Unbound, foreign session,
delegated child, and other profile cannot recover the receipt. No notifications
are replayed. Full tools suite is queued behind the campaign test lock.
Follow-up to contributor salvage #104805 for #104511.
OOMPolicy is a service-unit property; systemd-run --user --scope
rejects it with 'Unknown assignment: OOMPolicy=kill'. The availability
probe therefore always failed in supervised Linux gateways, making
restart-safe cron worker dispatch (systemd scope) permanently
unavailable and falling back to in-cgroup workers.
MemoryMax + MemoryAccounting remain; OOMPolicy adds nothing for a
transient scope (no service manager to act on the OOM event).
A message typed while the agent runs (CLI busy_input_mode=interrupt, gateway
priority redirect, ACP redirect) goes through AIAgent.redirect(). During tool
execution redirect() degrades to steer(), whose delivery rides the tool result
— so a long foreground command (a `sleep 285` CI poller, a build) parked the
user's message until it exited. The UI printed "Redirected current turn" while
nothing happened for minutes.
redirect() now also asks the tool workers to YIELD (tools/interrupt.request_yield).
The local terminal backend's wait loop honours it: the drain thread is stopped, the
still-running Popen is adopted by the process registry as a notify_on_complete
background session (ProcessRegistry.adopt_local — output so far seeds the buffer,
the registry reader continues from the pipe), and the tool returns immediately with
status "yielded_to_background" + session_id. The command is never killed; the
completion notification arrives as usual and process(poll/wait/log/kill) work on it.
Non-local backends and internal env.execute() consumers pass no yield_handler and
are unaffected; a stale yield bit is cleared with the interrupt bit per worker tid.
In a fan-out run the /goal loop parked for 3 h 22 min at the end on a
grandchild's poller (waiting_on_session=proc_21a6fe2369a1, 00:47 -> 04:09)
while the root itself had nothing running. Every one of the root's 7 logged
judge verdicts was WAIT on a child-owned process.
Two causes. gather_background_processes() was called with no task_id from
both goal-loop callers (CLI cli_loops_mixin, gateway run_goals), and the
registry's task_id is the CONTAINER key, which collapses to one value for
every agent in the process, so the judge's process list was every one of
~1,300 subagents' pollers. And a pid/session barrier had no ceiling: once
the judge said WAIT on a session that never exits, nothing resumed judging;
waiting_since was recorded and never read.
Now list_sessions() reports owner_task_id (the RAW spawning id the
registry already keeps for ownership checks), gather_background_processes
takes owner_task_id and both callers pass their own session id (CLI turns
register processes under self.session_id; gateway turns under
turn_ctx.session_id), and is_waiting() ages out a pid/session barrier
after _MAX_BARRIER_WAIT_S (30 min). Timed barriers keep their own deadline.
Tests: only the owning session's running processes are returned when
owner_task_id is given (unfiltered behaviour unchanged); a live barrier
older than the ceiling clears and judging resumes.
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.
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.
Repo scanners (check_subprocess_stdin, check-windows-footguns --all) flagged 21 sites where
the r3 single-line collapses lost stdin=DEVNULL, encoding='utf-8'/errors='replace', the
'# windows-footgun: ok' same-line marker, or the getattr(os, 'geteuid') gate. Each guard is
restored at the call site (real portability/hang fixes, not suppressions).