_load_config() reads the Hindsight bank, mode and retain tags through the profile
secret scope, but _apply_retain_settings() then discarded that answer and re-read
os.environ whenever the config value was falsy:
return cfg.get(key) or os.environ.get(env_var, default)
Under gateway.multiplex_profiles os.environ holds the DEFAULT profile's .env, so a
secondary profile's scoped miss came back as the default profile's retain tags,
observation scopes, source and speaker prefixes — the fallback-after-miss shape
gateway/AGENTS.md forbids. Tags are Hindsight's retrieval partition and
metadata.source is opt-in by design, so the secondary's memories were both
mislabelled and selectable by the default profile's tag filters.
Both halves now go through _scoped_setting(), which resolves the value with
get_secret() and falls back to the provider's OWN default — a miss is a miss, the
same rule embedded.py already applies to the daemon's key and base URL. The three
raw reads left inside _load_config() (retain_source, retain_user_prefix,
retain_assistant_prefix), directly under the comment declaring them per-profile,
go through it too.
Single-profile deployments are unchanged: with no scope installed get_secret()
still reads the process env, where the value IS this profile's own.
Fixes#108865
John Paul Soliva
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