Follow-up to the salvaged #81988 CLI guard (issue #81952):
- gateway/run.py::main() refuses startup (exit 2) on unparseable config.yaml
- hermes serve headless path (cmd_dashboard) gets the same guard
- cron run_job() fails the job with the guard error before AIAgent
construction (no_agent script jobs exempt — no token spend)
- HERMES_IGNORE_USER_CONFIG=1 / --ignore-user-config escape hatch honored
on every surface
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