Second, deeper pass over tools/gateway/hermes_cli plus first pass over
the trees wave 1 missed (acp, acp_adapter, skills, computer_use, docker,
dashboard, conformance, monitoring, secret_sources, hermes_state,
providers). Same rubric as wave 1 (AGENTS.md test policy); security,
alternation/caching invariants, issue-number regressions, and E2E kept.
Real test-quality fixes found and rooted out along the way:
- tests/tools/test_command_guards.py made real auxiliary-LLM HTTPS calls
(DEFAULT_CONFIG smart-approval leaked in) — pinned approval
mode=manual via autouse fixture: 17.4s → 0.4s.
- test_model_switch_custom_providers.py / test_user_providers_model_switch.py
silently probed live provider catalogs (~2s/test) — stubbed
cached_provider_model_ids/provider_model_ids/fetch_api_models.
- test_telegram_noise_filter.py: 15-platform copy-paste matrix over
shared gateway.run logic → 3 representative platforms (55s → 3.9s).
- test_gateway_shutdown.py: stop()'s 5s interrupt-deadline loop spun on
MagicMock agents — interrupt.side_effect now clears _running_agents
(22s → 1.0s).
- test_gateway_inactivity_timeout.py poll-harness timings shrunk 3-5x
(24s → 1.1s); test_mcp_stability.py backoff/SIGTERM-grace sleeps
patched (15.4s → 2.5s); test_async_delegation.py negative-drain wait
5s → 0.5s.
- test_telegram_init_deadline.py: loop-block margin restored to 1.0s
with rationale comment — the watchdog-dump assertion needs the loop
blocked well past deadline+grace under parallel load (flaked once in
the 40-worker verification run at a 0.2s margin).
Verification: full hermetic suite via scripts/run_tests.sh —
2,438 files, 21,718 tests passed, 0 failed, 293.9s wall.
Suite totals vs original baseline: 46,820 → 19,757 test functions
(−57.8%), wall 583.5s → 293.9s (−50%), subprocess CPU 13,564s → 11,623s.
Follow-up to the truncate_message split-loop floor. Two review points:
- CapabilityDescriptor.from_json trusted the wire max_message_length
verbatim, so a connector advertising 0 ('no limit') — or a buggy one
sending 0/negative — produced a descriptor whose bound flowed straight
into the adapter's MAX_MESSAGE_LENGTH and truncate_message. Normalize
it to the documented 4096 default (mirrors from_platform_entry's
'or 4096' and docs/relay-connector-contract.md), fixing the degenerate
budget at its source rather than only surviving it downstream.
- Document the truncate_message length contract for a budget too small
for one codepoint (max_length=1 with a 2-unit surrogate pair under
utf16_len): the chunk intentionally exceeds max_length by that one
indivisible codepoint, because emitting it whole preserves content
where the alternatives are data loss or an infinite loop.
Tests: from_json normalizes 0 and negative bounds to 4096 and passes a
real positive bound through unchanged; the sub-codepoint budget emits
whole codepoints with no data loss (all emojis preserved) and a chunk
that necessarily exceeds the 1-unit budget.
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