`hermes profile delete` removes the profile directory and tears its runtime down, but the name is
also baked into durable identity the delete path never touches — `agent:<name>:*` routing keys,
`gateway_heartbeats.profile` and `delivery_obligations`. An inbound event on a chat keyed to the
dead name then enters the routing index, resolves a profile whose directory is gone, and logs
`Profile '<name>' does not exist` on every event for the life of the store (the #111926 flood,
reached from a *deleted* rather than a renamed profile). The delete side is now symmetric with the
rename rekey (`rekey_profile_state` / `rekey_profile_routing` / `migrate-profile-identity`), with
the same ownership rule:
- `SessionDB.purge_profile_state(name)` — the mirror of `rekey_profile_state`, in one
`_execute_write` transaction. Routing keys, heartbeat rows and the telegram topic rows the rekey
also owns are hard-deleted (a binding is matched by `profile_name` OR its `session_key`
namespace, because the rename rewrites both); `delivery_obligations` rows are terminalized
(`state='abandoned'`) rather than dropped, so pending delivery state is not lost silently.
- `SessionStore.purge_profile_routing(name)` — the mirror of `rekey_profile_routing`: drops the
in-memory entries and persists the drop. Mandatory, not belt-and-braces — the owning process
writes its in-memory copy back, so a durable delete made elsewhere is undone by its next save.
- A delete-only control verb `purge-profile-identity`, deliberately NOT inside
`_unserve_profile()`: that hook also unserves a rename's old name, whose identity the rekey still
has to migrate. `hermes profile delete` requires the owner's `{"ok": true}` answer and reports a
partial settlement (naming the retry) instead of a clean success.
- The retry is the new `hermes profile purge-identity <name>`. It refuses a name that is a live
profile again: the purge keys off the name alone, so `delete foo` (settlement pending) →
`create foo` → `purge-identity foo` would otherwise delete the NEW incarnation's identity. The
delete path tombstones the directory before it purges, so the guard never blocks the delete.
- `sessions` rows are not deleted by the purge: it settles identity, not history. What a delete
leaves of a profile's conversation record is `delete_profile`'s business — it removes the
profile's own home, `state.db` included.
Tests (`scripts/run_tests.sh`, red on base → green): `tests/hermes_state/test_purge_profile_state.py`,
`tests/gateway/test_purge_profile_routing.py`, `tests/gateway/test_profile_identity_purge.py`,
`tests/hermes_cli/test_profile_identity_purge_cmd.py` and `TestDeleteProfile` in
`tests/hermes_cli/test_profiles.py` — 95 passed, 0 failed across those five files.
A rename under a live multiplexer that could not reach the control verb warned and
stopped there, leaving the operator with no way to finish: the rename cannot be
repeated (profiles/<old> is gone) and the CLI deliberately never rewrites the
routing DB a live gateway holds in memory.
- `hermes profile migrate-identity <old> <new>`: retries the migration —
delegates to the gateway control verb while a multiplexer is live, performs the
durable rewrite of both state DBs when none is. Idempotent, and exits non-zero
naming the offending database on a collision, a lock, or a partial failure. Only
the name format and the existence of the new profile are checked; the old profile
directory is expected to be gone.
- An older gateway that does not implement the verb is reported as such (`identify`
answers while the migrate verb does not), not as "no gateway".
- `_migrate_profile_identity` returns an explicit success/failure result so the
command can set its exit code; the rename warning now names the exact invocation.
- A failed control answer keeps the raw payload when it carries no reason field.
- The offline failure branch called `click.echo` in a module that never imports
`click`: a failed second database raised NameError instead of printing its warning.
The user guide, command reference, `hermes profile update --help` and the
install-over-plain-profile warning all said skills/ and cron/ are overwritten
wholesale; they are now merged per skill / cron job, so say so, and document the
symlinked-container refusal.
`hermes profile create <name> --clone` copies whatever `hermes import-agent`
had pulled into the source profile, but leaves import-sync.json behind, so
the clone can never run `import-agent --sync` itself: its imported skills and
memories freeze at clone time.
`--sync-imports` (with --clone / --clone-from) also copies the manifest. It
is deliberately narrow: the manifest points at EXTERNAL Claude Code / Codex
trees, never at the source profile, so both profiles remain independent
islands (root AGENTS.md ruling) — config.yaml, SOUL.md and skills are still
one-off copies. Opt-in, one-directional, explicit; --clone-all already
carries the file as part of the full copy. Refused without a clone source.
A cloned profile carried the source's TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN, DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN,
allowlists, WHATSAPP_ENABLED, API_SERVER_KEY and the platforms:/telegram:/
discord: config sections byte-for-byte. Standalone, that made two gateways
fight over one bot's long-poll; under multiplex it blocked
`hermes gateway migrate --multiplex` with one duplicate-credential finding
per platform per clone (18 on a real 10-profile install).
Every clone entry point (CLI --clone/--clone-from/--clone-all, dashboard
POST /api/profiles, TUI/Desktop profiles.create incl. its mirror_credentials
.env copy) now strips channel settings after the copy. The key set is derived
from the adapters — Platform enum + plugin registry (required_env,
allowed_users_env, allow_all_env, cron_deliver_env_var), the gateway env table
(gateway.config_env._ENV_STEPS / _ENV_ENABLE_CREDENTIALS) and each platform's
env prefix — so a new adapter is covered without a hand list. --clone-all also
drops pairing/WhatsApp-session/gateway ledgers. Provider and tool keys, the
model block, memory, skills and SOUL.md are untouched.
`--clone-channels` (REST/RPC: clone_channels) keeps them; it is refused when a
live multiplexer already serves the source and otherwise warns which
platforms are now shared. `hermes profile list` prints the same warning for
existing clones whose bot credential is byte-identical to the default's.
The dashboard's per-platform env-prefix table moves into profile_channels so
Channels-page cards and the clone stripper share one definition.
- _profile_export_directory(): when the managed store, the home-sibling
store, AND the temp dir all resolve inside Git checkouts, raise a clear
ValueError instead of warning and proceeding — a stderr warning would not
stop a scripted export from staging a secret-bearing archive in a source
tree, which is the exact #92457 incident class. All three callers already
surface ValueError cleanly (CLI/TUI print Error: + exit, API returns 400).
- .dockerignore: drop the /default.tar.gz line made redundant by the global
*.tar.gz pattern this PR adds.
- hermes profile export -o help text: stop advertising the old
<name>.tar.gz cwd default.
- Tests: cwd-in-unrelated-checkout topology (the second production shape
from the blocking review) and the fail-closed path. Mutation-checked:
both fail on the pre-fix helper.
`hermes profile rename default <name>` (and the Desktop/dashboard rename
flows) now set a presentation-only `display_name` in profile.yaml instead
of erroring. The canonical id stays "default"; resolution, comparison,
and spawn paths are untouched. Named profiles keep real renames and their
display_name survives the move.
Surfaces: profile list/show/status, /profile (text only — data.profile
stays canonical), dashboard ProfilesPage, TUI-gateway profiles.list, and
Desktop (rail, switcher, Manage page, and the Bot Mode roster via a
displayName fallback so a renamed default shows its name, not "default").
Slimmer redo of the direction in PR #87760 by @yxssxn — thanks; see PR
body for what changed vs that approach.
Follow-on to the cron extraction in the same Phase 2 PR. Same pattern:
per-group build_<name>_parser() functions with injected handlers, no main
import.
- subcommands/profile.py: build_profile_parser (190-line block out of main()).
- subcommands/gateway.py: build_gateway_parser (gateway + proxy, 238-line block;
they shared one inline section). Imports argparse for SUPPRESS defaults.
- main(): two more inline blocks become single builder calls.
Behavior-neutral: 'profile [sub] --help' and 'gateway/proxy [sub] --help'
byte-identical to pre-extraction (diff-verified).
main() now 2723 LOC (was 3297 at Phase 2 start); add_parser calls in main.py
179 -> 141.
Validation: tests/hermes_cli/ 6476 passed / 0 failed under per-file process
isolation; new builder unit tests cover subactions, aliases, dispatch, flags.
