All packagers (Docker, Nix, desktop) write the same install-stamp.json
with scripts/write_install_stamp.py or with equivalent inline data. The
new hermes_cli/version_info.py reads the stamp first, falls back to
live git for source installs, and reports "unknown" when neither
exists. It caches the result per process.
The stamp replaces three separate provenance paths:
- the HERMES_REVISION env var from the Nix wrapper,
- the .hermes_build_sha file from the Docker build arg,
- live git probes in banner.py and dump.py.
hermes_cli/build_info.py and the desktop's write-build-stamp.mjs are
deleted with them. The desktop build calls the shared Python script.
The banner, `hermes --version`, `hermes dump`, the TUI session panel,
and the desktop About panel now show the same derived version: the
release version, plus "+N" when the build is N commits past the
release tag, or "+?" for a dirty tree with no countable tag. The
release_date field is gone from every surface.
The dirty probe uses `git status --porcelain -uno`: it runs on the
startup-banner path, and an untracked-file scan costs real time on
large checkouts.
The CI run stayed in progress until its last job ended. Two advisory jobs
set that time: the review-comment poller (40 minutes) and the Docker image
build (45 minutes). Neither job was required to merge.
GitHub refuses `gh run rerun` on a run that is in progress. Thus a reviewer
who added the `ci-reviewed` label had to wait for the two slow jobs, and
label-rerun.yml carried a 2100-second wait loop for this reason. The fast
required jobs were ready long before.
Each slow job now runs in its own workflow:
- docker.yml owns its `pull_request` trigger and does its own change
detection. The new `detect` job runs the same composite action with the
same condition that ci.yml applied, so a tests-only PR still skips the
build. The `workflow_call` trigger is gone.
- ci-review-comment.yml starts on `workflow_run` when CI starts. It reads
the workflow and the scripts from the default branch, which is the trust
boundary that the old job got from its `ref: default_branch` checkout.
The poller reads job results through the API, so it can report on a run
that it does not belong to. `WATCH_WORKFLOWS` names sibling workflows for
the same commit, and `select_watched_runs` keeps the newest run for each
name. Thus the comment still shows the Docker results. The list is
newline-separated, because a workflow name can contain a comma.
The poller always exits 0 now. It reports on the CI run from a different
run, so a failed CI job is not a failure of the poller. The CI run has its
own gate for that.
Also correct a parse error in label-rerun.yml. STATUS came from the already
truncated RUN_ID, so its value was the run id and never "completed". Thus
the wait branch always ran.
ci.yml no longer needs `packages: write`, because the image build has left.
The Docker Build, Test, and Publish workflow fails when
docker/setup-buildx-action can't pull the moby/buildkit:buildx-stable-1
image from Docker Hub. The failure happens during builder bootstrap at
the auth token exchange — a transient network blip (connection reset,
read timeout, rate limiting) that self-resolves on re-run.
Recent failure (run 30449230291, merge job):
read tcp 10.1.0.171:45666->104.18.43.178:443: read: connection reset by peer
This has hit us before and will again — it's the same class of
transient Docker Hub flake that the merge job already retries for
imagetools create. But buildx setup had no retry, so a single network
hiccup killed the entire job (build, publish, or merge) even though
nothing was wrong with the code or the image.
Fix: wrap each of the 3 buildx setup steps (build, publish, merge jobs)
with continue-on-error + a conditional retry step. The maintained action
is preserved as-is — we just give it a second attempt if the first
fails. The action generates a unique builder name per invocation, so the
retry never collides with the failed first attempt. The second attempt
has no continue-on-error, so genuine persistent failures still fail the
job.
The docker/setup-buildx-action maintainer has explicitly said retry
belongs at the workflow level, not inside the action [1], and other
repos use this same continue-on-error pattern for this exact issue [2].
[1] docker/setup-buildx-action#510
[2] joshjhall/containers#688, ethpandaops/eth-client-docker-image-builder#391
Unpinned, astral-sh/setup-uv resolves 'latest' by fetching
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/astral-sh/versions/.../uv.ndjson on
EVERY job. A transient failure of that fetch fails the whole job before
any test runs (2026-07-28: tests slice 5/8 died 12s in with
'##[error]fetch failed' on PR #73514). Pinning version makes setup-uv
download the binary directly — one less external hop per job across all
7 call sites (tests, lint x2, docker, e2e-desktop, lockfile-check).
* fix(ci): publish inline E2E evidence
Upload bounded screenshot evidence from E2E, then publish validated images
from a trusted workflow_run job to commit-pinned branches in the evidence repo.
Wait briefly for the live CI review comment marker before publishing, so
GitHub's read-after-write delay cannot leave an orphaned evidence branch.
* fix(ci): isolate privileged credentials from PR jobs
Keep App private keys and Docker Hub credentials out of PR-controlled
workflows. Use protected environments for trusted publishing and a public
repository variable for the App client ID.
* fix(ci): attach E2E evidence with restricted bot session
Replace the App-backed evidence repository publisher with gh-image uploads
from a dedicated bot session in the gh-image environment.
* fix(ci): publish validated E2E evidence from forks
Let the trusted default-branch publisher handle bounded, validated evidence
artifacts from fork PR CI without checking out or executing fork code.
* feat(attribution): conflict-free contributor mappings via contributors/emails/ directory
The AUTHOR_MAP dict in scripts/release.py was a merge-conflict magnet:
every concurrent salvage PR appended entries to the same lines of the
same file, so parallel PRs re-conflicted on every merge to main.
New system: one file per email under contributors/emails/ — filename is
the commit-author email, first non-comment line is the GitHub login.
File additions never conflict, so any number of PRs can add mappings
concurrently.
- scripts/release.py: AUTHOR_MAP is now LEGACY_AUTHOR_MAP (frozen)
merged with the directory at import time (directory wins). All
existing consumers (resolve_author, contributor_audit.py) unchanged.
- scripts/add_contributor.py: idempotent CLI to add a mapping; refuses
conflicting reassignments (incl. against the legacy map), validates
email/login shapes.
- contributor-check.yml: attribution gate now accepts a mapping file OR
a legacy entry; failure message prints the exact add_contributor
command. Also auto-resolves bare <login>@users.noreply.github.com
emails is intentionally NOT added (kept id+login form only, matching
previous behavior).
- contributor_audit.py: guidance now points at add_contributor.py.
- tests/scripts/test_contributor_map.py: 12 tests covering loader,
merge precedence, CLI idempotency/conflict/validation, subprocess E2E.
* feat(ci): one-shot per-file flake retry in the parallel test runner
A failing test FILE is re-run once in a fresh subprocess. Pass-on-retry
counts as green but is loudly reported in a '⚠ FLAKY' summary section
(with both attempts' output preserved) so the flake gets fixed instead
of eating a full-run rerun. Deterministic failures fail both attempts —
regressions cannot be laundered green.
- --file-retries N / HERMES_TEST_FILE_RETRIES (default 1, 0 disables)
- E2E verified: simulated first-run-fail flake goes green with banner;
deterministic failure still exits 1; retries=0 restores old behavior.
This converts the dominant CI failure mode (one timing-sensitive test
flaking a 4600-test shard, requiring a manual 10-minute rerun and an
agent triage loop) into a self-healing retry that costs one file's
runtime.
* test(approval): loosen wall-clock perf bounds 0.15s -> 2.0s
These guard against catastrophic regex backtracking (seconds-to-minutes
class), but 0.15s is within scheduler-stall noise on loaded shared CI
runners — test_max_accepted_separator_free_input_is_fast failed a CI
shard this week on runner load alone. 2.0s still catches the regression
class with zero flake surface.
* fix(ci): job timeouts everywhere + retries on all network installs
Reliability pass over every workflow:
- timeout-minutes on all 21 jobs that lacked one (a hung job previously
burned the 6-hour default runner budget)
- ./.github/actions/retry wrapped around every network-fetching install
that lacked it: pip installs (deploy-site, skills-index), npm ci
(deploy-site website, upload_to_pypi web + ui-tui), uv sync (docker
test deps). Deterministic build steps (npm run build) deliberately
NOT retried — split into separate steps so a real build failure fails
fast instead of retrying 3x.
* docs(agents): document the file-retry flake policy
* fix(ci): curl retries on deploy hook + skills-index probe
* fix(ci): kill the remaining transient-failure classes in workflows + Dockerfile
From the workflow reliability audit:
- tests.yml: duration-cache restore had NO restore-keys while saves use
run_id-suffixed keys — the cache never matched once, so LPT slicing
always ran blind and unbalanced slices pushed heavy files toward the
per-file timeout. One-line restore-keys fixes slice balancing.
- Label gates (lint ci-reviewed, supply-chain mcp-catalog-reviewed):
'gh pr view || true' turned an API blip into 'label absent' → false
BLOCKING failure. Now 3x retry, and API failure is reported as an API
failure instead of a missing label.
- detect-changes action: compare API retried before failing open (was
silently running all lanes on any blip).
- uv-lockfile-check: 'uv lock --check' resolves against PyPI — retried
so registry blips don't read as 'lockfile stale'.
- docker.yml merge job: imagetools create retried (Docker Hub eventual
consistency on just-pushed digests).
- Dockerfile: apt-get Acquire::Retries=3; s6-overlay ADDs converted to
curl --retry 3 (ADD cannot retry; checksums still enforced); npm
--fetch-retries=5; playwright chromium fetch retried 3x.
- Advisory artifact uploads (per-slice durations, ci-timings report)
get continue-on-error so an artifact-service blip can't fail a green
test slice.
* fix(tests): kill the two root-cause flakes — leaking pre-warm timer + env-dependent provider list
- test_tui_gateway_server.py: session.create / non-eager session.resume
arm a 50ms threading.Timer (_schedule_agent_build) that outlives its
test and fires into the NEXT test's _make_agent mock, racily
corrupting captured state (the recurring session_resume shard
failures). Replaced the per-test whack-a-mole stub with a module-wide
autouse fixture; the 3 worker-lifecycle tests that genuinely need the
deferred build opt back in via @pytest.mark.real_agent_prewarm (new
marker in pyproject).
- test_api_key_providers.py: PROVIDER_ENV_VARS is now derived from the
live PROVIDER_REGISTRY instead of a hand-list that had drifted
(missing HF_TOKEN / DEEPINFRA_API_KEY) — resolve_provider('auto')
tests failed on any machine with HF_TOKEN exported. E2E-verified with
HF_TOKEN/DEEPINFRA_API_KEY set: 42/42 pass.
* test: de-flake 30 timing-sensitive test files for loaded CI runners
Root-cause fixes from the flake audit (session-DB mining + repo sweep):
Event-based sync instead of sleep-sync:
- title_generator: mock sets threading.Event, wait(10) replaces
sleep(0.3) hoping the daemon thread got scheduled
- docker zombie_reaping / profile_gateway: poll-for-state helpers
replace fixed 1-3s sleeps (s6 transitions + SIGCHLD reaping are async)
- process_registry tree test: select()-bounded readline replaces an
unbounded blocking read (parent wedge now fails THIS test with a clear
message instead of an opaque rc=124 file kill); SIGTERM grace 1s->2s
(the 1s partition window mid-interpreter-startup is how a child PID
escaped the live-system guard in CI)
Timeout raises (loaded 8-way-sliced runners see ~5s scheduling floors;
all of these complete in ms-to-1s when healthy so the raises cost
nothing on green runs):
- subprocess/thread waits <= 2s raised to 10-15s across mcp_tool,
mcp_circuit_breaker, mcp_reconnect_retry_reset, mcp_parked_self_probe,
mcp_cancelled_error_propagation, registry, clarify_gateway, interrupt,
voice_cli_integration, docker_environment, session_store_lock_io,
planned_stop_watcher, cli_interrupt_subagent, thread_scoped_output
(joins now also assert not is_alive() so stragglers fail loudly)
- wall-clock discrimination ceilings loosened where the guarded hang is
10x larger: local_background_child_hang 4s->10s, interrupt_cleanup
setup 5s->20s + pgid-exit 30s->60s, mcp_stability grandchild spinup
5s->15s, protocol/gil-starvation fast-handler 0.5s->2s,
iso_certify_seam 1.5s->5s, wait_for_mcp_discovery 0.1s->1s
- narrow assertion windows widened: honcho first-turn wait 0.4..0.65 ->
0.25..2.0 (property is bounded-not-hung, not an exact wall-clock);
compression fork-lock TTL 1s->3s (12 refresh chances per lease);
compression-lock expiry margins symmetric (ttl 0.05->0.5, sleep 1.0)
- telegram hung-DNS bound 1.0->1.4 (fake hang is 1.5s — must stay under)
* fix(tests): repair indentation from de-flake batch edit
* fix(tests): harden env isolation and replace remaining sleep-sync races
The full 42k-test run and complete npm check surfaced three more classes:
- Environment isolation: local ~/.honcho defaultHost and SSH_* variables
leaked into Python/TUI tests. Pin the default Honcho host in the
hermetic fixture, isolate the one fallback test from ~/.honcho, and
blank SSH_* around terminalSetup tests. This flipped 20 false failures
back to deterministic behavior on developer machines.
- Background-thread sleep-sync: Honcho async writer tests patched
time.sleep globally, then busy-polled with that same mocked sleep. Under
full-suite load the poller could starve the writer. Each test now waits
on an Event emitted by the exact flush/retry transition; 30/30 passed
under 15-way contention.
- Desktop streaming: the test slept 80ms and assumed a 500ms timer could
not fire before its assertion. A loaded runner descheduled the test for
>500ms and both chunks arrived. Producer controls now gate second-chunk
and completion transitions explicitly.
Also make file-retry observability complete: a self-healed flaky file now
prints BOTH attempts' full output in the FLAKY summary. Two behavioral
runner tests prove pass-on-retry is green+loud+traceback-preserving, while
a deterministic failure remains red.
* refactor(ci): use gh bot pat, better retries
refactor(ci): use retry action for PR label fetch
the retry action now captures stdout as a step output, so it can serve
double duty: retry + output capture for commands like 'gh pr view' whose
result must be consumed by later steps.
Retry action gains:
- 'stdout' output (heredoc-delimited to preserve newlines)
- tee to temp file so stdout still streams to the job log
- step id 'retry' for output reference
Both lint.yml and supply-chain-audit.yml now use the retry action
directly with 'command: gh pr view ...' and read
steps.<id>.outputs.stdout.
ci: use AUTOFIX_BOT_PAT for all gh CLI / GitHub API auth
Replace secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN and github.token with
secrets.AUTOFIX_BOT_PAT across all workflows and composite actions
that use the gh CLI or GitHub API. The PAT has consistent permissions
across fork PRs (where GITHUB_TOKEN is read-only), avoids API rate
limit sharing with the default token, and is already used by
js-autofix.yml for the same reasons.
19 sites swapped across 9 files:
- lint.yml (3): label fetch, comment post/edit, comment update
- supply-chain-audit.yml (5): scan, critical comment, unbounded dep
comment, label fetch, mcp-catalog comment
- lockfile-diff.yml (1): PR comment post/update
- skills-index-freshness.yml (1): issue creation on degraded probe
- skills-index.yml (2): index build, trigger deploy workflow
- upload_to_pypi.yml (2): release view poll, release upload
- ci.yml (1): timings report
- deploy-site.yml (2): skills index crawl
- detect-changes/action.yml (1): compare API call
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Co-authored-by: ethernet <arilotter@gmail.com>
lint.yml inlined github.head_ref (the fork PR branch name, attacker-
controlled) into the diff-summary run: block. GitHub expands ${{ }} into
the script text before bash tokenizes it, so a branch like x$(id) runs on
the lint runner. The pull_request trigger keeps the token read-only, but
the sink still allows CI resource abuse and cache/artifact tampering, and
would become RCE-with-secrets under pull_request_target.
Route head_ref through an env var (env values are not subject to expression
injection) and reference "$HEAD_REF". Apply the same to the two docker.yml
sites that interpolate github.event.release.tag_name.
Fixes GHSA-jpw6-c7jr-c56v, GHSA-2843-hjmf-7x96.
Credit: @technotion, @youngstar-eth.
ethernet
Kshitij Kapoor
Teknium
emozilla