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.
Slack Workflow Builder posts (and other app/bot messages) arrive as
subtype=bot_message with user=None. _is_user_authorized rejected them at
the `if not user_id: return False` guard, which runs *before* the #4466
{PLATFORM}_ALLOW_BOTS bypass — so @mentioning the bot from a Slack
workflow silently did nothing, even with SLACK_ALLOW_BOTS (or
SLACK_ALLOW_ALL_USERS) set. The chat-scoped allowlist for Telegram/QQ
already runs before that guard for the same reason (channel broadcasts
with no from_user); Slack was both missing from the bot-bypass map and
had the bypass running too late.
- gateway/authz_mixin: move the {PLATFORM}_ALLOW_BOTS bypass ahead of the
no-user-id guard and add Platform.SLACK -> SLACK_ALLOW_BOTS.
- plugins/platforms/slack/adapter: set is_bot=True on inbound
bot_message events so the gateway can identify workflow/app senders
(they carry no user_id to match against the allowlist).
Tested: new tests/gateway/test_slack_bot_auth_bypass.py plus the existing
Discord/Feishu bot-auth and gateway authz/gating suites all pass.
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Tao Chen