Four fix-forwards from the adversarial post-merge audit of the Aug 7
unreviewed merge batch:
- estop (#81148): is_engaged() now fails SAFE (engaged) on stat errors;
the gateway estop gate lets recognized slash commands and replies owned
by in-flight work (update prompts, clarify, slash-confirm, tool
approvals, running sessions) through instead of consuming them; new
gateway /pause [reason|off] command gives messaging-only operators an
in-band engage/resume path (busy_policy=dispatch so it works mid-run).
- cron monitor mode (#81138): execution-mode invariants (monitor x
no_agent, monitor_script x monitor_url, no_agent-requires-script) now
have ONE owner (_validate_job_mode_invariants) called from BOTH
create_job and update_job, so the create-time invariant can no longer
be silently violated through the update door.
- cron notepad (#81139): remove_job now clears the job's notepad rows
(clear_notepad was dead code -> orphaned KV state forever); clear is
best-effort and no-ops without creating notepad.db.
- delegation batch gate (#81141): template-marker regex narrowed to
multi-word placeholder shapes only (<feature name>, {file_path}) so
generics (Vec<T>), HTML tags, JSON snippets, glob braces and f-string
style no longer reject legitimate batches; duplicate-goal rejection
removed (best-of-N fan-outs are legitimate).
- cron/notepad.py: SQLite-backed cron_notepad(job_id, key, value,
updated_at) store in its own profile-local db (cron/notepad.db),
following the executions.py connection/transaction pattern. APIs:
set_note/get_note/delete_note/list_notes/clear_notepad +
render_notepad_section. Documented size caps: 16KB per value,
128-char keys, 64KB per job total; oversized writes raise ValueError.
- cron/scheduler.py: inject non-empty notepads into the job prompt at
the context_from data-injection seam as a clearly-labeled
"Job notepad (persistent across runs)" section that also documents
the CLI write path. Empty notepad renders "" — byte-stable prompts
for jobs that never use the feature.
- hermes_cli/cron.py + hermes_cli/subcommands/cron.py:
`hermes cron notepad <job_id> [get|set|delete|list]` under the
existing cron subcommand tree (no new top-level command, no new
model tool — the agent writes via terminal + CLI).
- tests/cron/test_notepad.py: CRUD, durability, cap enforcement,
prompt injection, byte-stable empty case, read-failure resilience,
CLI handler + dispatch (TDD; watched fail first).
Inspired by: Amp (Sourcegraph) cron notepad (idea-level, proprietary —
zero code).
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