Two bugs reported by gfdsa (PR #41711 comment, Jul 12) that break the
official a2a-sdk 1.1.0 Python client:
1. Task objects serialized non-spec createdAt/lastModified fields.
The A2A v1.0 Task proto (lf.a2a.v1.Task) only has id, contextId,
status, artifacts, history, metadata. Strict ProtoJSON parsers
reject unknown fields with ParseError. Removed both fields from
build_task(); created_at param kept for call-site compatibility.
2. SSE streaming frames were not JSON-RPC wrapped. A2A v1.0 §9.4
requires data: {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":...,"result":{StreamResponse}}.
sse_data() now accepts req_id and wraps in JSON-RPC envelope.
sse_done() changed from 'data: {}' to SSE comment ': done' so
SDK doesn't try to parse an empty JSON-RPC response.
All call sites in adapter.py (_emit_terminal, _rpc_message_stream,
_rpc_tasks_subscribe) updated to thread req_id through.
Tests updated: 153 pass (151 unit + 17 integration, including 2 new
tests for JSON-RPC envelope wrapping and fallback behavior).
Refs: gfdsa/a2a-hermes reproduction repo
## File/data Parts (v1.0 unified Part)
- file_part(url=, raw=, filename=, media_type=) builds v1.0 file Parts
- data_part(data, media_type=) builds v1.0 data Parts
- message_with_parts(role, parts, context_id=) builds Messages with mixed Part types
- extract_text now renders file/data Parts into the text stream:
- File with URL: '[file: name] https://url (mediaType)'
- File with raw: '[file: name] N bytes base64-encoded (mediaType)'
- Data: '[data (mediaType)]\n{json}'
- v0.3 file (file.fileWithUri) and data (kind=data) still accepted
- Outbound replies stay text-only (agent produces text)
## Push notification config full CRUD
- get_push_config(task_id, config_id) — retrieve by task, optionally by configId
- list_push_configs(task_id) — list all configs for a task (max 1 per task)
- delete_push_config(task_id, config_id) — remove a config
- New JSON-RPC methods: tasks/pushNotificationConfig/get, /list, /delete
- New adapter handlers: _rpc_push_config_get, _list, _delete
- All return spec-shaped PushNotificationConfig with configId + createdAt
## Tests
- 6 new unit tests for Part builders + extract_text with file/data
- 13 new unit tests for push config get/list/delete (happy + error paths)
- 2 new integration tests over real HTTP:
- test_mixed_parts_delivered_to_agent: file URL + data JSON reach agent
- test_push_config_crud_over_http: full create→get→list→delete cycle
- Old test_extract_text_skips_non_text_parts replaced (now renders, not skips)
Total: 151 tests (134 unit + 17 integration), 0 failed.
DESIGN.md updated: file/data Parts and push config CRUD removed from
out-of-scope list.
Consolidates 5 follow-up PRs onto the a2a-work branch:
1. Reply-capture fix (#56437): adapter.send() now only resolves the
blocked RPC Future when metadata['notify'] is True (the gateway's
final-reply marker). Interim sends no longer short-circuit the
response. Also accepts **kwargs in connect() for reconnect compat.
2. Slash command passthrough (#53743): wrap_inbound() passes /-prefixed
text through unwrapped so the gateway command processor sees it.
Fixes /sethome deadlock during A2A onboarding. Documented security
trade-off (bearer auth at network layer compensates).
3. Routable URL in Agent Card (#53736): _build_card() now derives URL
from A2A_PUBLIC_URL env > X-Forwarded-Host/Host header > bind host.
Fixes k8s bug where Agent Card advertised 0.0.0.0.
4. contextId multi-turn memory (#53756): _handle_inbound_task() now
checks top-level params.contextId first (A2A spec), falls back to
params.message.contextId (legacy). Outbound a2a_call also sends
contextId at both top-level and inside message.
5. Type checker fixes (#53759): TypedDict for _SCHEMAS, _FunctionSchema,
_ToolSchema. Removes str() band-aid casts.
All 45 tests pass including new tests for each fix.
Zero core files modified — only plugins/platforms/a2a/ and tests/.
Credits: @davidrobertson (#56437), @knoal (#53736, #53743, #53756,
#53759), @kuangmi-bit (slash command bug report), @gfdsa (k8s URL bug
report), @shivasymbl (#45996 userContext OBO).
Live Tier-3 testing (CLI agent -> a2a tools -> live peer gateway -> model)
surfaced two bugs the kwarg-style unit tests masked:
1. registry.dispatch calls handlers as handler(args, **kwargs) — args is the
whole dict positional. The handlers used keyword params (url=, agent=), so
the dict bound to the first param and .strip() raised
'dict object has no attribute strip'. Rewrote all three handlers to take
args: dict (matching the spotify/google_meet convention). Added a
registry-dispatch regression test that exercises the real call path the
direct-kwarg tests never hit.
2. The model repeatedly reached for agent_name= instead of agent= (6 retries
before success). Accept agent_name/name and message/text/task aliases so a
reasonable guess succeeds first try.
Verified live: client agent discovers the peer's Agent Card, calls it, and
gets the reply back (PONG round-trip confirmed on both client audit log and
peer conversation log). 39 plugin tests pass.
Single platform-adapter plugin under plugins/platforms/a2a/ — zero core
edits — that supersedes the entire A2A PR/issue cluster. Built on the
ctx.register_platform + ctx.register_tool surface the codebase now exposes.
Outbound (a2a toolset): a2a_discover / a2a_call / a2a_list let the agent
call any A2A-compliant peer over JSON-RPC message/send. Inbound (platform
adapter): a stdlib http.server serves an Agent Card at
/.well-known/agent.json and routes incoming tasks into the agent's LIVE
gateway session (the #11025 insight) — same agent, full memory — returning
the reply over A2A.
Security on by default: no bearer token => 127.0.0.1-only bind; constant-
time bearer auth; inbound prompt-injection filtering + untrusted-peer
framing; outbound credential redaction; append-only audit log; per-context
conversation persistence outside the compaction pipeline.
Stdlib only (no a2a-sdk). 37 tests incl. a live HTTP round-trip
(card + message/send + reply) and a bearer-auth 401 path.
Review follow-up on the #62871 salvage (simplify pass, HIGH):
1. Ops unresolved at the wait deadline were RETAINED in the pending set.
A permanently failing status endpoint (auth error, endless 500s, or a
server that loses ops without 404) would grow the set forever and make
EVERY later prefetch burn the full 10s budget re-polling it — and
prefetch()'s bounded 3s join sits on the reply path, so that money-quote
'adds no response latency' claim breaks. Timed-out ops are now dropped
(identical degradation to prefetch_waits_for_retain=False: possibly
stale recall) with a WARNING so persistent server trouble is visible.
Guard test mutation-checked (fails with eviction disabled).
2. Status polls now spaced 0.5s (was 0.05s shared with the local drain
poll): a wedged op cost up to ~200 get_operation_status round trips
per prefetch; now ~20 max over the default 10s budget.
Address PR #62871 review: with the default retain_async=True, aretain_batch
returns when the write is accepted, not when it's durable/recall-visible, so
draining the local writer queue (task_done) is not a read-after-write signal.
The next-turn prefetch could still recall before the just-completed turn was
observable on the server.
- Track the async operation_id/operation_ids returned by aretain_batch
- _wait_for_retains_drained now applies two ordered, budget-bounded barriers:
(1) local writer queue drains, then (2) tracked server-side async ops report
completion via operations.get_operation_status (an explicit read-after-write
condition). NotFound (completed+evicted) counts as done; transient errors
keep waiting until the deadline
- Completed ops are removed from the pending set so later prefetches don't
re-poll them; the whole wait stays off the reply path
- Add TestPrefetchServerRetainVisibility: op-id tracking (single/multiple),
no-op tracking when retain_async=False, prefetch waiting for server
completion before recall, timeout fallback on a wedged op, and NotFound /
transient-error status handling
Async retain already keeps the memory WRITE off the reply path (writes drain
on the single writer thread while the user gets their response immediately).
This closes the remaining retain/prefetch race: the next turn's warm prefetch
runs on its own thread and could recall BEFORE the just-enqueued retain write
lands, silently dropping the latest turn from recall.
- The background prefetch now waits (bounded) for pending retains to drain
before recalling, so warmed context includes the just-completed turn.
- The wait runs only on the background prefetch thread, never the reply path,
so it adds zero latency to the user's response and loses no writes.
- Bounded by prefetch_retain_drain_timeout (default 10s) and polls
unfinished_tasks so a wedged write can't hang the prefetch.
- New config keys: prefetch_waits_for_retain (default true),
prefetch_retain_drain_timeout (default 10.0).
When hrr_dim=1 the prefixed float32 blob (4+4=8 bytes) collides in
size with a raw float64 blob (1×8=8 bytes), making the format
discriminator in bytes_to_phases ambiguous — a legacy blob starting
with HRR1 would be misread as a prefixed float32 vector.
- phases_to_bytes now accepts an optional dim and falls back to
writing raw float64 when the two blob sizes are equal.
- bytes_to_phases prefers the legacy float64 interpretation when
sizes collide and dim is provided, since phases_to_bytes never
writes a prefixed float32 blob at dim=1.
- Three regression tests cover dim=1 write, round-trip, and the
legacy-prefix collision case.
Addresses hermes-sweeper review on PR #30499.
Review follow-up on the #76142 salvage: MemoryStore path-resolves and
shares one process-wide connection per file, so MemoryStore(":memory:")
creates a literal ./:memory: FILE whose state leaks across test runs —
the second run of the file failed all three spy tests because the
NULL-vector test had permanently wiped hrr_vector in the leaked db.
tmp_path isolates each run; verified two consecutive runs green + full
tests/plugins/memory/ green.
FactRetriever.search() re-encoded the query vector once per candidate,
related() re-encoded both role atoms once per fact row, and probe()
re-encoded the role-content atom once per row. All three encoders are
deterministic (SHA-256 counter blocks), so the hoisted vectors are
bit-identical to the per-iteration values they replace.
Measured (300-fact store, dim=1024, median of 30 calls): search()
11.62 -> 1.46 ms/call (8.0x; encode_text 30 -> 1 per call), related()
63.08 -> 16.17 ms/call (3.9x; encode_atom 601 -> 3 per call), probe()
431.93 -> 389.36 ms/call (1.1x; dominated by per-fact content encoding,
which is inherent to the algorithm and unchanged).
Tests: call-count regression tests for each hoist plus a bit-exact
parity test of search() against the pre-fix per-candidate loop.
Carries the new column through create, PATCH, and bulk. Clearing is an
explicit clear_reasoning_effort flag rather than a null, because a null in a
PATCH body means "field not sent", not "set to NULL" — the same shape the
model override already uses, and the reason "none" can stay a real value.
Tests cover normalization, the depth-survives-a-model-clear invariant, both
spawn-argv branches, and the REST round-trip. One asserts the worker CLI
actually accepts the --reasoning flag the dispatcher emits: a spawn arg no
parser accepts would fail every dispatch while every unit test stayed green.
CI's plugin-test slice runs without the discord optional extra; the raw
import failed with ModuleNotFoundError while every other test in the
file uses injected mock modules.
Under gateway.multiplex_profiles, Discord and Telegram authorization gates
(allowed/ignored channels, allowed users/roles, allow-all flags) were read
from process-global os.environ, populated first-writer-wins by the YAML->env
bridge in each adapter's _apply_yaml_config. The first profile to initialize
pinned its allow/deny lists — and its ALLOW_ALL flags — for every other
profile in the process (issue #72348, incl. the Telegram mirror reported in
the thread).
Fix (per-adapter-instance gate reads, whole class):
- gateway/authz_mixin.py: new _platform_gate_env — scope-authoritative gate
read: under an installed profile secret scope with multiplex active, a
missing key returns the default instead of falling through to os.environ
(which may hold another profile's value). Single-profile behavior is
byte-identical to os.getenv.
- Discord adapter:
- connect() snapshots all gate env vars (_GATE_ENV_KEYS) inside the owning
profile's runtime scope into a per-adapter dict; new accessors
(_get_allowed_channels/_get_ignored_channels/_get_allowed_users/
_get_allowed_roles/_get_no_thread_channels/_discord_allow_all_users/
_gateway_allow_all_users/_get_allow_bots) resolve snapshot -> config.extra
-> scope-aware env, replacing every raw os.getenv gate read: on_message
channel gates, _is_allowed_user allow-all flags, slash authorization,
fail-closed diagnostics, missed-message backfill, bot-message gating,
and _component_check_auth (component buttons).
- _apply_yaml_config always seeds gate values into PlatformConfig.extra
(incl. new allowed_roles / allow_all_users keys) and SKIPS the
process-global env writes when loading a profile-scoped config under
multiplex; the legacy first-writer env bridge is preserved verbatim for
single-profile deployments.
- _resolve_allowed_usernames no longer unconditionally rewrites
os.environ[DISCORD_ALLOWED_USERS] — under multiplex the resolved IDs stay
adapter-local (snapshot refresh); single-profile keeps the env rewrite.
- Telegram adapter (mirror of the same class): intake prefilter and
callback-auth fallbacks, _telegram_auth_env_configured, and the
allowed/ignored chats-topics-threads getters now read via the scoped gate
reader; _apply_yaml_config skips authorization env writes for
profile-scoped loads and seeds free_response_chats/ignored_threads extras.
Regression tests (tests/plugins/platforms/test_discord_gate_isolation.py):
two adapter instances with different allow-lists enforce their OWN lists
order-independently across message, slash, and component gates; negative
allow-all case proves profile A's open-access flag cannot authorize profile
B; username-resolution env-clobber; YAML-bridge seeding/skip matrix; and the
Telegram scoped-reader matrix. Sabotage-verified: reverting either the
Discord snapshot accessors or the Telegram scoped reader fails 12/2 tests
respectively.
Credit: builds on the per-adapter accessor direction of PR #72427
(@JonthanaHanh) and the scope-aware-reader approach validated live on v0.19.0
by @yournetworkplug-ctrl for the Telegram mirror; scope corrections from
jackjin1997's and cal88's analysis in the issue thread (allow-all flags,
unguarded username-resolution env write, per-site channel reads).
Fixes#72348
The embedded Hindsight daemon's profile env file carries the plaintext
HINDSIGHT_API_LLM_API_KEY but was written via bare write_text(), leaving
it with umask-derived (typically world-readable) permissions.
- Create/truncate the file via os.open(..., 0o600); chmod a pre-existing
file to 0600 BEFORE writing new secret bytes.
- Post-write validation on POSIX: verify 0600, retry chmod, and raise if
the file still isn't owner-only.
- If validation fails, unlink the secret file so a plaintext key is never
left behind with unverified permissions.
- Regression tests under tests/plugins/ for fresh-write mode, tightening a
pre-existing 0644 file, and cleanup on validation failure.
Narrowed reimplementation of #74236 confined to plugins/memory/hindsight/;
the core utils.py atomic-replace opt-out from the PR was dropped.
Co-authored-by: carrion256 <carrion256@proton.me>
The chronos cron-fire verifier constructed PyJWKClient without explicit
headers, so its JWKS fetch to the NAS portal hit the same WAF 403 the
dashboard-auth providers already guard against. It reaches the same
portal issuer, so it's the same bug class — mirror the fix here and add
a constructor-contract regression test.
Co-authored-by: James Hodgkinson <james@terminaloutcomes.com>
The Nous PyJWKClient was constructed without explicit headers, while the
self_hosted provider already sends Accept + User-Agent. Without them the
Portal WAF can block the JWKS fetch, so the same failure mode remained for
the Nous dashboard-auth route. Mirror the self_hosted fix and add a
constructor-contract regression test.
An "Estimate" action asks the auto-routed auxiliary model for a rough token
count + complexity band (S/M/L) with a one-line rationale — tokens, not
dollars, since providers don't report cost reliably. POST /estimate (typed
title/body, for the create dialog) and POST /tasks/{id}/estimate (existing
cards) share one core. Desktop renders it inline ("~15k tok · Medium") with a
"makes a model call" disclaimer; SDK exports compactNumber.
Boards gain an optional project_id. When set, the board's default_workdir
mirrors the project's primary repo and every new task inherits the project —
a deterministic worktree + branch per task — unless it names its own. New
GET /projects; board create/patch/list carry project_id + resolved name; the
create dialog defaults its workspace to the board's and allows a per-task
path override. Desktop: "Board settings…" gains a project picker.
Replace OS-scheduler-dependent elapsed-time ceilings with deterministic
concurrency proofs in three tests:
- test_context_refs_concurrent: asyncio.Barrier rendezvous — all 3 URL
fetches must be in flight simultaneously before any returns.
- test_memory_boundary_commit: positive non-blocking witness — the
provider call list must still be empty when the async commit returns.
- test_mem0_v3 slow-prefetch: threading.Event park/release — prefetch
must return while the backend search is still parked.
The tests/tools/test_mcp_tool.py hunk from the original PR is dropped:
main no longer carries the 'elapsed < 2.5' assertion it targeted
(superseded by a delay-relative bound).
Salvaged from #71913.
Combines the Windows-hermeticity cluster (#67512 by @webtecnica, earliest;
#71112 by @Sanjays2402; #67196 by @anatolijlaptev1991-ctrl) into one fix:
- scripts/run_tests.sh: env -i forwarded only HOME, but native Windows
CPython resolves Path.home() from USERPROFILE (or HOMEDRIVE+HOMEPATH),
stdlib paths from LOCALAPPDATA/APPDATA, ssl/sockets need SYSTEMROOT,
tempfile needs TEMP/TMP — the strip broke collection tree-wide on
native Windows (issues #67385, #70813). Location vars (never
credentials) are now forwarded, each only when actually set, so
POSIX runs are byte-for-byte unchanged (probe-verified both ways).
PYTHONUTF8=1 added for legacy-codepage consoles printing the
runner's glyphs.
- tests/plugins/memory/test_hindsight_provider.py: _clean_env patched
HOME only; on Windows Path.home() ignores HOME. Now patches
Path.home directly into tmp_path (from #67196).
Not ported: #71112's guard test — it regex-reads run_tests.sh source,
which the test policy bans (never read source code in tests).
Fixes#67385. Fixes#70813.
Same sibling-mock class as the relay-metrics runtime file — this test
stubs the telemetry gate's config read, which now goes through
read_raw_config_readonly(). Swept the whole test tree for remaining
read_raw_config stubs: all others target consumers that still use the
mutable reader (browser config, url_safety, inventory) and carry no
telemetry keys.
Three GUI Capabilities-tab defects reported on Windows:
1. Browser rows stuck on 'Setup required' after a successful setup run.
Root causes, all in the readiness probe (not the installer):
- _has_agent_browser() never searched the Hermes-managed Node dir
(%LOCALAPPDATA%/hermes/node / $HERMES_HOME/node/bin) where the
Windows install lands, and probed node_modules/.bin/agent-browser
as the extensionless POSIX shim, which fails exec on Windows
(WinError 193) — now resolved via PATHEXT-aware shutil.which
against both rungs, mirroring _find_agent_browser().
- Cloud rows (Nous Subscription Browser Use, Browserbase, Browser
Use, Firecrawl) declared post_setup: agent_browser, whose
readiness gate requires a LOCAL Chromium build the cloud never
uses — switched to the cloud-scoped 'browserbase' hook (CLI-only).
- _agent_browser_installed() could read browser_tool's stale cached
'Chromium missing' result from before the install ran in the
spawned post-setup process — cache now dropped before probing so
the pill flips to Ready right after a successful run.
2. No way to tell which backend is active, and clicking a row to read
its details silently rewrote config. Row click now only
expands/collapses; activation is an explicit 'Use this backend'
button, the active row carries an 'Active' pill, and the expanded
active row says 'This is your active backend'.
3. OpenAI TTS showed one model and one voice. The options were always
defined but rendered through a native <datalist>, which filters by
the field's current value — a field already set to a valid option
suggested only itself. Replaced with a real combobox (Input +
dropdown) that lists every option, and voice suggestions now track
the selected model per the OpenAI TTS docs: tts-1/tts-1-hd = 9
voices, gpt-4o-mini-tts = 13 (adds ballad, verse, marin, cedar).
resolve_sidecar_dir() probes the filesystem (touch/unlink) and can mirror
sidecar files to HERMES_HOME. Doing that as a module-import side effect
meant plugin discovery, `hermes --help`, and test collection all paid a
filesystem probe (and possibly a mirror copy) just for importing the
photon adapter or CLI.
Convert _SIDECAR_DIR/_NPM_ERROR_LOG in adapter.py and cli.py to lazy
cached accessors (_sidecar_dir()/_npm_error_log()); resolution now
happens on first actual use. Existing tests that monkeypatch the
_SIDECAR_DIR module global keep working — the accessors honor a
non-None value. Adds a regression test proving import performs no
resolution.
The Photon iMessage sidecar needs node_modules under
plugins/platforms/photon/sidecar/, but hosted/managed images keep the
whole install tree under an immutable /opt/hermes — every install and
self-heal path (setup CLI, stale-deps reinstall, cold install) died on
EROFS, and hosted users have no shell to work around it.
Three-layer fix, mirroring the WhatsApp bridge resolver pattern:
1. Bake the deps into the image. The Dockerfile now runs npm ci for the
sidecar in the layer-cached dependency stage (deterministic installs
from the committed lockfile; the postinstall spectrum-ts patch runs
at build time). Hosted happy path needs no runtime install at all.
2. New sidecar_paths.resolve_sidecar_dir() decides where the sidecar
runs from: PHOTON_SIDECAR_DIR override > writable source dir (dev
installs, unchanged) > read-only dir with baked fresh deps (managed
image) > mirror to $HERMES_HOME/photon/sidecar (writable data
volume) when deps are missing or stale in a read-only tree. The
mirror refreshes changed source files on image updates while
keeping node_modules, so the existing lockfile-staleness self-heal
works there.
3. connect() can now cold-install: _start_sidecar() runs the bounded
npm ci bootstrap when node_modules is missing instead of raising
immediately, and check_requirements() reports available when a
self-install is possible (npm present + writable resolved dir) so
the gateway actually creates the adapter on hosted instances. A
failed bootstrap still raises the actionable error, which connect()
surfaces as the retryable SIDECAR_FAILED fatal state on the
dashboard.
Tests: resolver decision table (env override, in-place, mirror,
refresh, fail-open), cold-install lifecycle paths, and a Dockerfile
contract test guarding the baked-deps + no-chown invariants.
Fixes NS-606.
Widen NS-605 to the two remaining direct-install sites in the hindsight
plugin, which still shelled out to 'uv pip install --python
sys.executable' and therefore failed (EROFS/EACCES) on immutable hosted
images with sealed venvs, and lost packages on redeploy:
- post_setup dependency install (~L835): install_specs() with ok /
blocked-reason / stderr handling matching honcho/mem0.
- initialize()-time hindsight-client auto-upgrade (~L1240):
install_specs(); blocked installs log the gate reason with the manual
command instead of a raw subprocess error, and init proceeds.
Audited every other memory plugin (supermemory, byterover, holographic,
openviking, retaindb) for direct pip/uv install subprocess calls: none
remain — their deps flow through plugin.yaml pip_dependencies or
lazy_deps.ensure().
Tests: TestClientAutoUpgradeRoutesThroughLazyDeps — upgrade goes through
install_specs with the exact spec (regression guard asserts no
subprocess.run), blocked upgrade is non-fatal and surfaces the gate
reason. Updated TestPostSetupEnvEncoding stubs to the new install path.
index.mjs now imports sibling .mjs helpers (send-format, stream-staleness);
the fixture copied only index.mjs so the sidecar died on module resolution
before reaching the health endpoint.
Maintainer rework of #45580 (issue #54036) on top of the contributor's
cherry-pick, which targeted spectrum-ts 3.1.0 while main pins 8.0.0:
Sidecar (primary detection, new):
- stream-staleness.mjs: pure decision rules, executable under node.
* classifyProbeRejection: only a not-found-shaped rejection of the
synthetic-id read counts as a completed round-trip (ALIVE); any other
rejection is INCONCLUSIVE — never alive. The original /probe treated
ANY rejection as alive, which was too loose.
* shouldProbe: probe only after 10+ min of stream silence (configurable
via PHOTON_STREAM_SILENCE_PROBE_MS; <=0 disables) with a cooldown.
* isZombieSuspect: zombie only on silence past threshold AND a
probe-proven live channel. Silence alone NEVER degrades (shared lines
can be quiet for hours); inconclusive probes NEVER degrade (network
may be down — the iterator will throw and the re-subscribe loop
recovers on its own).
- index.mjs: track last inbound-iterator yield (noteInboundYield), run a
30s watchdog tick, and on a confirmed zombie feed markStreamDegraded ->
the existing exit-75 restart path. /healthz gains a stream.staleness
block (silentForMs, threshold, lastProbeOutcome, zombieSuspected).
/probe reworked to strict semantics: 200 only on a proven round-trip,
503 with outcome hung|inconclusive otherwise.
Adapter (second layer, reworked):
- _probe_once returns tri-state alive|hung|inconclusive; only a hung
sidecar HTTP call counts toward the respawn counter — inconclusive
resets nothing and triggers nothing.
- default probe_interval_seconds 60 -> 600 (conservative; avoid restart
storms on quiet lines).
- _monitor_sidecar_health surfaces zombieSuspected from /healthz as a
warning; the fatal UPSTREAM_STREAM_DEGRADED path is unchanged and fires
when the sidecar escalates.
Tests: test_zombie_stream_watchdog.py executes the real node decision
module and drives the adapter against mocked /healthz responses;
test_presence_watchdog.py updated for the tri-state probe.
Also adds contributor mappings for nickkarhan (#53283) and vaibhavjnf
(#45580).
Follow-up to the URL markdown fix: extract the /send builder decision into
sidecar/send-format.mjs and rewrite test_url_send_path.py to execute the real
module under node (format+text in -> chosen builder out) instead of regex-
grepping index.mjs source, which is a banned test pattern in this repo.
spectrum-ts's live-stream consumer (consumeLive in spectrum-ts 3.x) only
reconnects when its inbound async iterator throws or ends. A half-open
("zombie") gRPC socket — where the TCP connection stays ESTABLISHED but the
peer is gone (NAT idle-timeout, network blip, laptop sleep) — makes the
iterator hang forever: no error, no end. The SDK exposes no gRPC keepalive
knob (createClient takes only {address, tls, token}; grpc.keepalive_time_ms
defaults to -1 = pings off), so the inbound stream silently dies and stays
dead until the gateway is restarted. Symptom: the agent's iMessage line goes
"online but deaf" — Photon's cloud-side fallback answers users with "the agent
isn't online right now" and inbound never reaches the gateway.
Fix, entirely in the code we own (no SDK fork):
- Sidecar gains a POST /probe endpoint that drives a cheap unary read
(space.getMessage on a synthetic id) over the SAME gRPC channel the inbound
stream uses. A live channel round-trips in ms (server returns not-found,
which is success for liveness); a zombie hangs. It sends nothing to any user
and creates no chat (space.get is local in shared/dedicated mode; only the
message read touches the wire).
- The adapter runs a presence watchdog: it probes on an interval, skips the
probe when natural inbound traffic already proved liveness within the
window, and after N consecutive failed probes respawns the sidecar — a fresh
Spectrum() re-subscribes the stream and re-registers presence. Successful
probes double as application-level keepalive, helping prevent the zombie
from forming at all. Respawn is lock-guarded against double-spawn and the
watchdog is torn down cleanly on disconnect.
Behavioural settings live in config.yaml (extra), bridged to env per the
.env-is-secrets-only convention:
probe_interval_seconds (60), probe_timeout_seconds (10),
probe_max_failures (3). A non-positive interval disables the watchdog.
Tests: tests/plugins/platforms/photon/test_presence_watchdog.py covers config
resolution, the disable switch, probe alive/dead(500)/timeout/no-client, the
core N-failures->one-respawn detection, success-resets-failures, stop-then-
start respawn ordering, and lock-guarding — all without spawning Node or
hitting the network.
Contributed by Vaibhav Sharma (X: @vabbyshabby).
The `clarify` tool's multiple-choice prompts flattened to a numbered text
list on Photon/iMessage, even though iMessage has a native poll bubble and
spectrum-ts already exposes it via the `poll()` content builder. Two gaps
caused the flattening:
* Outbound: the sidecar only had `/send` (text); there was no way to send
a poll, so the base adapter's numbered-text fallback was used.
* Inbound: `normalizeContent()` handled only text/attachment/voice, so a
poll vote (`poll_option`) was dropped on the floor ("[Photon content
type not handled: poll_option]") and never resolved the clarify.
Fix, end to end:
* Sidecar: import `poll` from spectrum-ts; add a `/send-poll` route
(`space.send(poll(title, ...options))`); serialize inbound `poll_option`
(the vote: chosen title + selected bool) and `poll` content in
`normalizeContent()`.
* Adapter: override `send_clarify` — for choices, send a native poll via
`_sidecar_send_poll` and call `mark_awaiting_text` so the gateway's
existing pending-clarify text-intercept resolves the answer; open-ended
clarifies keep the plain-text path. Inbound `poll_option` selections are
dispatched as a plain-text MessageEvent carrying the chosen option
(deselections / empty votes are dropped). If the poll send fails (an
older sidecar without `/send-poll`, or a send error) it falls back to the
numbered-text clarify, so nothing regresses on a half-upgraded restart.
No new model tool, no new env var, no core change — the capability lives at
the platform edge. The poll vote reuses the existing clarify text-intercept
resolution path, so no new gateway resolution mechanism is introduced.
Tests: tests/plugins/platforms/photon/test_poll_clarify.py — inbound vote ->
choice text, deselection/empty-vote dropped, send_clarify sends a poll +
enables text-capture, open-ended stays text, and poll-failure falls back to
the text list. Full photon suite green.
Contributed by Vaibhav Sharma (X: @vabbyshabby).
Maintainer follow-up to the #51193 salvage:
- _send_with_retry: permanent classes (auth_or_config, target_not_allowed)
now short-circuit BEFORE the unconditional plain-text fallback resend,
including when a retry attempt surfaces one — no more double-sends of
permanently-failing requests.
- sidecar classifySidecarError: new structured code target_not_allowed for
Spectrum's 'Target not allowed for this project' AuthenticationError
(shared/free-tier lines cannot initiate outbound sends to new targets).
Classification applies to every handler sharing the catch-all
serverError path (/send, /send-attachment, /react, /typing, ...).
- _standalone_send now parses the structured error body too (it reads
sidecar responses independently of _sidecar_call) and returns
error_class/retryable alongside the message.
- target_not_allowed maps to a canonical user-facing message in both
paths; raw upstream error text never leaks through the structured code.
Closes the actionable halves of #50971, #51897, #52794.
Photon's Node sidecar intentionally hides raw handler exceptions, but the Python adapter still needs a safe failure class and retryability bit so delivery retries do not collapse into an opaque generic 500.
Constraint: Sidecar responses must not leak raw stack traces or private exception text
Rejected: Retry every internal sidecar error | masks permanent auth/config failures
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: narrow
Directive: Keep sidecar error text generic; extend safe error classes instead of exposing raw SDK failures
Tested: uv run --with pytest-timeout pytest tests/plugins/platforms/photon/test_overflow_recovery.py -q
Tested: uv run --with pytest-timeout pytest tests/plugins/platforms/photon -q
Tested: uv run ruff check plugins/platforms/photon/adapter.py tests/plugins/platforms/photon/test_overflow_recovery.py
Tested: python3 -m py_compile plugins/platforms/photon/adapter.py tests/plugins/platforms/photon/test_overflow_recovery.py
Tested: node --check plugins/platforms/photon/sidecar/index.mjs
Tested: git diff --check
Tested: python3 scripts/check-windows-footguns.py --diff origin/main
Not-tested: Live Photon/Spectrum delivery against a real iMessage account
Related: #50971
`PhotonAdapter._start_sidecar` is `async`, but it ran the Spectrum
mixed-attachment patch script with a bare `subprocess.run(...)`: it spawns
node and *waits* for it, with `timeout=10`. Executed inline that holds the
shared gateway event loop for the whole window, so no other platform's
messages, heartbeats, or sessions are serviced until it returns.
The same function already establishes this exact invariant twenty lines
above, where the stale-dependency reinstall hops to a worker thread:
# Runs off the event loop so a cold install can't freeze every other
# platform's traffic.
if _sidecar_deps_stale():
await asyncio.to_thread(_reinstall_sidecar_deps)
The patch spawn never got the same treatment. It is not startup-only
either — `_start_sidecar` is called from `connect()`, which takes
`is_reconnect`, so an ordinary Photon reconnect (network blip, sidecar
death) re-runs it and stalls a live gateway that is actively serving
Discord/Telegram/Slack traffic.
Dispatch it via `asyncio.to_thread` like its sibling. Same off-the-loop
class as the inbound-image decision (#66688) and the cron-fire verifier.
Adds a regression test asserting the spawn executes on a worker thread
rather than the loop thread.
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