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.
Follow-up to the allowed_channels wildcard fix in the preceding commit.
The same '*' literal trap affected two other Discord channel config lists:
- DISCORD_IGNORED_CHANNELS: '*' was stored as the literal string in the
ignored set, and the intersection check never matched real channel IDs,
so '*' was a no-op instead of silencing every channel.
- DISCORD_FREE_RESPONSE_CHANNELS: same shape — '*' never matched, so
the bot still required a mention everywhere.
Add a '*' short-circuit to both checks, matching the allowed_channels
semantics. Extend tests/gateway/test_discord_allowed_channels.py with
regression coverage for all three lists.
Refs: #14920
allowed_channels: "*" in config (or DISCORD_ALLOWED_CHANNELS="*" env var)
is meant to allow all channels, but the check was comparing numeric channel
IDs against the literal string set {"*"} via set intersection — always empty,
so every message was silently dropped.
Add a "*" short-circuit before the set intersection, consistent with every
other platform's allowlist handling (Signal, Slack, Telegram all do this).
Fixes#14920