A leftover TERMINAL_ENV in ~/.hermes/.env (written by `hermes setup` or
shell exports) was silently overriding terminal.backend in config.yaml,
so users switching from docker to local saw `hermes config show` agree
with their change while the gateway / cron / batch_runner still ran
against the old backend.
load_hermes_dotenv now re-applies config.yaml's terminal.* values on top
of whatever the .env files set, so the documented source of truth wins
for every entrypoint that goes through the loader.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The salvaged cleanup (#75197) scrubbed every known Hermes key absent from
the profile .env — deleting user-shell-exported credentials
(export OPENAI_API_KEY=...) on every hermes invocation, a documented flow
the author's own failing test_dump_flags_shell_only_key_not_in_dotenv
confirmed. A child process cannot distinguish shell exports from
parent-process leakage, so the scrub now covers ONLY
_PROFILE_MANAGED_ENV_KEYS (ACP routing keys: HERMES_ACP_*,
HERMES_COPILOT_ACP_*, COPILOT_CLI_PATH, COPILOT_ACP_BASE_URL) —
the vector from #75141. Cross-profile credential isolation is owned at
read time by agent.secret_scope.get_secret.
Adds shell-export survival regression + a scope-invariant test that fails
if the scrub set is ever widened toward credential-shaped keys.
Align load_hermes_dotenv() with reload_env() so known Hermes env vars
absent from the active profile .env are removed from os.environ instead
of leaking from a parent process / other profile.
Register ACP-related keys (HERMES_ACP_AUTH_METHOD, HERMES_COPILOT_ACP_*,
COPILOT_CLI_PATH, COPILOT_ACP_BASE_URL) in _EXTRA_ENV_KEYS so they
participate in known-key cleanup.
This is the same isolation gap class as #68367 / #66930, but:
- Not Desktop-only spawn scrub — CLI/gateway restart inheritance
- Not Matrix/messaging auto-enable only — copilot-acp provider/ACP config
- Startup dotenv clear so *any* inheritance path is covered
Example: HERMES_ACP_AUTH_METHOD=cursor_login leaking into a Claude Code
ACP profile caused authenticate -> Internal error -> Discord
'model provider failed after retries'.
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.
The .env sanitizer inferred missing newlines from known KEY= substrings
inside existing values. Plain secrets containing those bytes could therefore
be split into synthetic assignments and rewritten to disk.
Treat each physical line as the only assignment boundary and keep bytes after
the first equals sign opaque for boundary discovery. Preserve safe formatting,
null-byte removal, BOM handling, and normal one-assignment-per-line parsing.
Cover direct loading, dotenv loading, sanitization, writers, and migration
with behavioral regressions.
Fixes#29155
Hot-reload and multi-entry load_hermes_dotenv can hit the same UTF-32
file repeatedly; gate the refuse-to-mangle warning on a module-level
seen-set (house style: _WARNED_KEYS sibling) so logs are not spammed.
Notepad "Unicode" saves write UTF-16 with a BOM. The sanitizer decoded
those bytes as utf-8-sig with errors=replace, glued U+FFFD onto the first
key name, stripped NULs, and rewrote the mangled content permanently.
Sniff leading BOMs before any text decode (UTF-32 before UTF-16, because
UTF-32-LE's BOM starts with UTF-16-LE's FF FE). Decode UTF-16 correctly
and rewrite as clean UTF-8. Refuse UTF-32 (leave untouched + warning).
After errors=replace, do not persist a first line that starts with U+FFFD.
Does not touch _load_dotenv_with_fallback (#65124's surface).
Remove unused imports (F401) and duplicate/shadowed import
redefinitions (F811) across the codebase using ruff's safe
autofixes. No behavioral changes -- imports only.
- ~1400 safe autofixes applied across 644 files (net -1072 lines)
- __init__.py re-exports preserved (excluded from F401 removal so
public re-export surfaces stay intact)
- Re-exports that are imported or monkeypatched by tests but look
unused in their defining module are kept with explicit # noqa:
F401 (gateway/run.py load_dotenv; run_agent re-exports from
agent.message_sanitization, agent.context_compressor,
agent.retry_utils, agent.prompt_builder, agent.process_bootstrap,
agent.codex_responses_adapter)
- Unsafe F841 (unused-variable) fixes deliberately skipped -- those
can change behavior when the RHS has side effects
- ruff lints remain disabled in pyproject.toml (only PLW1514 is
selected); this is a one-time cleanup, not a config change
Verification:
- python -m compileall: clean
- pytest --collect-only: all 27161 tests collect (zero import errors)
- core entry points import clean (run_agent, model_tools, cli,
toolsets, hermes_state, batch_runner, gateway)
- static scan: every name any test imports directly from an edited
module still resolves
Null bytes in API key values (introduced by copy-paste) crash
os.environ[k] = v with ValueError: embedded null byte, preventing
hermes from starting at all.
Hermes startup entrypoints now load ~/.hermes/.env and project fallback env files with user config taking precedence over stale shell-exported values. This makes model/provider/base URL changes in .env actually take effect after restarting Hermes. Adds a shared env loader plus regression coverage, and reproduces the original bug case where OPENAI_BASE_URL and HERMES_INFERENCE_PROVIDER remained stuck on old shell values before import.
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