54cc39aa15 (distrust foreign pricing for custom providers) tested with
openai/gpt-5.5-pro fixtures; 83d373aae6 (salvaged #70324) made that exact
id warn unconditionally as a known-confusion model. Each was green alone;
together the distrust tests fail on every main run (slice 6).
Use a neutral fixture id for the distrust tests and add a regression test
pinning the composed behavior: the id-keyed nudge survives custom-provider
pricing distrust.
Run the expensive-model warning for explicit startup `-m` / `--provider`
overrides before the chat loop starts, and fail closed for non-interactive
invocations that select an expensive or known-confusing model.
Also classify Nous paid-model 404s that say credits are required as billing
exhaustion so they fail fast with billing guidance.
Tested:
- scripts/run_tests.sh tests/hermes_cli/test_cli_startup_model_cost_guard.py tests/hermes_cli/test_model_cost_guard.py tests/agent/test_error_classifier.py -- --tb=short -q
Custom providers (custom:xxx) serve their own pricing; models.dev stores
OpenRouter prices for the same model ids. The cost guard fired on that
foreign pricing and blocked composer/CLI model switches on custom
providers with a wildly wrong warning (#54348).
expensive_model_warning now only trusts model_info/models.dev pricing
when the provider maps to a models.dev provider and the info's
provider_id matches, and only consults the pricing-entry lookup when
the billing route is known. Salvaged from #54422; the PR's desktop-hook
half predates the use-model-controls rewrite and is superseded by the
hook's existing rollback handling.
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.
Rebased onto current main and re-ported across the restructured
surfaces: model flows now thread confirm_provider/base_url/api_key
through hermes_cli/model_setup_flows.py, the Discord picker lives in
plugins/platforms/discord/adapter.py, and the web dashboard picker
applies chat-mode switches via config.set so the expensive-model
confirmation can ride the response.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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