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.
The #63309 hang class — gateway stuck at 'Connecting to Telegram
(attempt 1/8)' with no retry, no timeout, for minutes — can only occur
when the event loop thread itself is blocked in a synchronous call:
_await_with_thread_deadline's timer fires off-loop, but its expiry
hand-off (call_soon_threadsafe) still needs the loop to run, and the
gateway's outer wait_for is a pure loop timer. When the loop is pinned,
every layer goes silent simultaneously and the process wedges with no
evidence of where.
Two changes:
1. Loop-blocked watchdog in _await_with_thread_deadline: a second
daemon timer fires one grace period (5s) after the deadline; if the
loop still hasn't processed the expiry, it logs a WARNING from the
timer thread and faulthandler-dumps all thread stacks to stderr —
converting the silent hang into a trace that names the exact
blocking frame. A threading.Event set by the expiry callback (and on
normal exit) keeps completed awaits from ever being misreported.
2. discover_fallback_ips: the system-resolver leg runs
socket.getaddrinfo in a worker thread with no timeout, and
asyncio.gather waited on it unboundedly — a wedged OS resolver
stalled discovery for minutes between the two startup log lines. Its
result only feeds a log message, so it no longer gates discovery:
DoH legs (already client-bounded) are gathered alone and the system
leg is awaited with a _DOH_TIMEOUT cap, best-effort.
Refs #63309
Tests: 3 watchdog regressions (blocked-loop dump fires; responsive-loop
timeout does not; completed await does not) + 2 hung-resolver
regressions (DoH results returned promptly; worst-case seed fallback
stays bounded).
Follow-up to @msh01's wall-deadline init-timeout fix.
- Resource leak: on timeout the initialize() task is abandoned without
awaiting its (shielded, possibly-never-completing) cancellation, so the
half-built PTB app's httpx client / connection pool was never closed —
up to 8x across the retry ladder. Add an optional on_abandon cleanup to
_await_with_thread_deadline that best-effort app.shutdown()s the abandoned
app, run detached + exception-swallowed so it can never re-block or re-hang
the ladder (mirrors _close_client_on_timeout in agent/auxiliary_client.py).
- Cover the helper itself: the salvaged test monkeypatched out the real
_await_with_thread_deadline, so its abandonment/cleanup path was untested.
Add direct tests for happy-path return, prompt-timeout-with-cleanup, and
cleanup-error-swallowed; the wedged coroutines swallow cancellation for a
bounded window (proving the helper returns before cancellation completes,
the #58236 shielded-scope behavior) without leaving an immortal task that
would wedge pytest teardown. Widen the salvaged stub to accept on_abandon.
- Attribution: add yingwaizhiying@gmail.com -> msh01 to AUTHOR_MAP (bare
gmail does not auto-resolve the check-attribution gate).
Known follow-up (not addressed here): the retry ladder reuses the same
self._app across all 8 attempts; a fresh app per attempt would fully close
the coherence risk if an abandoned initialize() completes in the background.
That is a larger restructure of the ~130-line builder+handler setup, left
for a separate change.
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Jaret Bottoms
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