SQLite dynamic typing lets a TEXT cell ('not-a-timestamp'), inf/nan or a
garbage double (8.4e252 salvaged from a damaged page) sit in a REAL
timestamp column. Every reader called datetime.fromtimestamp()/float
arithmetic on the raw cell, so ONE bad row raised TypeError/OverflowError
out of the row loop and took down the whole `hermes sessions list`/browse
table (#102399), all three exporters — JSONL/MD, QMD, HTML (#102352) —
and `hermes insights` (#99959).
Fix the class with ONE helper, hermes_cli.timefmt.coerce_epoch(): a
stored cell becomes float epoch seconds inside a sane 1970..2103 window
or None after a WARNING that names the session id. Every reader routes
through it — relative_time (list/browse/resume picker), format_epoch
(prune/candidates tables), the three exporters' timestamp formatters,
insights' _get_sessions/_day/period range — so a bad row renders as
'?'/'N/A'/raw text for that one cell and the command completes.
Write side: hermes_state_messages._coerce_timestamp (append_message,
append_messages_batch, import) and the import path's started_at now use
the same window, so a new out-of-range timestamp falls back to now()
instead of being persisted — new bad rows cannot be written by Hermes.
Reported-by: #102399, #102352, #99959 reporters; kokhlo's insights
analysis pointed at every reporting site, not just line 860.
The api_content sidecar ('persist what you send') preserves prompt-cache
stability across turn boundaries by persisting the exact API-bound bytes
(including memory-manager prefetch, plugin injections, and API-only notes)
and substituting them on replay.
When a user turn was already materialized in the database before the
sidecar could be composed (in-place preflight compaction or a close/early
flush racing the prologue on the CLI path), the turn-start crash persist
marker-skips that message. Previously, the backfill was gated strictly on
in-place compaction (_preflight_compressed and _last_compaction_in_place),
so racing CLI flushes left api_content = NULL in SQLite and broke prompt
caching on subsequent turns (#102194).
Positional approaches (such as #102239 and #102286) using LIMIT 1 on the
newest active user row are unsafe: repeated common inputs ('ok', 'yes',
'continue') cause the backfill to match and overwrite the PREVIOUS turn's
row with the new turn's sidecar, corrupting history and breaking cache parity.
Resolve all landing blockers and review feedback from #102411:
1. Bounded state owner (Sahilvishnaliya):
Add SessionDB.set_message_api_content(session_id, row_id, content, api_content)
to SessionMessagesMixin in hermes_state_messages.py instead of growing
hermes_state.py. Update set_latest_user_api_content docstring with durable
warning on the positional hazard.
2. API-only turns & durable content selection (ehz0ah):
When a pre-flushed clean input has an API-only difference (e.g. voice
prefix or model-switch note):
- Retain the differing API-facing bytes as api_content even when no
new memory or plugin context was injected.
- Derive the durable content guard using _override_replaces_content so
the SQL 'content IS ?' guard matches the clean override text stored
in the DB row rather than the restored wire text.
3. Turn prologue gating (_row_id) & fail-closed store duck-typing (ehz0ah):
In agent/turn_context.py::_stamp_api_content_sidecar: check _row_id on
the live user dict (stamped by _insert_message_rows and synced by
sync_flushed_message_markers). If valid (positive int, not bool), address
by exact ID. Do NOT fall back to positional matching when a row ID is
present: if an external or custom wrapper lacks set_message_api_content,
fail closed and skip rather than corrupting a neighbouring row. If absent
but in-place compacted, fall back to positional update. On normal turns,
skip the backfill entirely (single atomic INSERT).
4. Real lifecycle test coverage (salch-cred, ehz0ah):
Comprehensive tests in tests/agent/test_api_content_row_addressed_backfill.py
covering store guards, surrogate scrubbing, gate non-arming, older identical
row protection, real close-flush row_id synchronization, API-only clean
override preservation with exact wire replay, and duck-typed store fail-closed
verification when set_message_api_content is absent.
Fixes#102194.
Closes#102411.
Namespace delivery markers and assign fresh keyless turn identities instead
of inferring ownership from IDs or process-local row baselines. Query only
marker existence on the canonical live compression continuation and ancestors.
Preserve raw reply IDs and exclude metadata from provider wire messages.
Expand the two existing invariants with resumed cross-chat ID collisions,
a real independent SQLite writer, reaped siblings, and archived-history
allocation controls. All 20 full-handler checkpoints and 63 targeted tests pass.
_dedupe_display_generations chose the right representative row per logical
message but sorted the survivors by that representative's id. A protected-tail
copy written into a newer compaction generation has a higher id than messages
emitted after the original, so include_compacted reads came back as C, A, B.
Anchor the sort on the logical message's first-ever row id instead.
Salvaged from #93869 (the tui_gateway half of that PR is superseded by #100504
and #104137); the code moved from hermes_state.py to hermes_state_messages.py
since, so the change is re-applied to its new home with the PR's regression
test verbatim.
hermes_state.py: delete every '# noqa: F401 (re-exported...)' import block (hermes_state_common/errors/guard/
readpool/sessions/fts/dbfile/wal/repair/registry + agent.context_compressor _DB_PERSISTED_MARKER_KEY); keep
only the names hermes_state.py itself uses, without noqa.
hermes_state_registry.py: drop get_shared_session_db/release_shared_session_db/close_shared_session_dbs
aliases; every caller (gateway/, tools/, tui_gateway/, cron/, mcp_serve, run_agent, tests) now imports
acquire/release/close_all/release_or_close from hermes_state_registry.
hermes_state_titles.py: drop set_auto_title_if_empty shim (title_generator keeps its getattr fallback).
Re-remove shim-only names restored by 34abf954bd: latest_user_message_row_id (tests call
latest_message_row_id(key, role='user'); role-targeting assertions kept) and get_session_activity (tests
build the snapshot via agent.session_activity.build_activity_snapshot over db.get_session(sid)).
hermes_state_wal._log_once resolves its dedupe sets as module globals instead of via hermes_state;
hermes_state_repair helpers call module globals directly (tests patch hermes_state_repair.<name>).
Frozen updater surface untouched (update_cmd_maint imports only SessionDB from hermes_state).
For each issue anchor present in BASE 63279301bc non-test .py and absent on HEAD, the BASE comment/docstring block was re-attached at the HEAD location of the code it explained (matched by the distinctive code line / enclosing def). Sentences already covered by an existing HEAD comment were deduped; the issue number always survives. Insert-only: no code lines changed.
All public on BASE 63279301bc, dropped by the simplify refactor (their tests were deleted or
rewritten to the replacement API). Restore each with BASE signature/body as a thin wrapper over the
surviving implementation, and restore the tests at the original call sites: test_message_reactions
again asserts the role=user contract (a newer assistant message is never the default target);
test_hermes_state / test_watchdog_review_76354 go back to get_session_activity(); toolsets, acp auth,
edit_approval, billing-scope and curated-models tests restored/extended.
