- Nudge text now warns that repeated protocol violations will block the
task and require manual intervention, so the model understands the
consequence of ignoring the nudge.
- Kanban docs restructured to clearly separate the two defense layers:
agent-side prevention (nudge, from #64350) and dispatcher-side
recovery (bounded retry, from this PR).
- Two new integration tests verifying the nudge mentions blocking and
that the agent-side and dispatcher-side budgets are independent.
Add a bounded turn-end stop guard for kanban workers. When a worker
tries to exit with finish_reason=stop without having called
kanban_complete or kanban_block, inject up to two synthetic nudges
so the conversation loop continues instead of exiting cleanly (which
the dispatcher records as protocol_violation).
Mirrors the existing verify-on-stop pattern: same ephemeral scaffolding
flag (_kanban_stop_synthetic), same role-alternation contract, same
_pending_verification_response fallback for budget exhaustion.
Disabled by default (gated on HERMES_KANBAN_TASK env var set by the
dispatcher); kill switch via HERMES_KANBAN_STOP_NUDGE=0.
Salvaged from #62262 by @mdc2122. The original branch was 272 commits
behind main with ~538 files of stale-base reversions; this salvage
applies only the 4 substantive files (agent/kanban_stop.py,
conversation_loop.py insertion, run_agent.py _EPHEMERAL_SCAFFOLDING_FLAGS,
tests/agent/test_kanban_stop.py).
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