* fix(agent): free-tier rate limits end an attended turn at once
A free-tier (no sign-in) session that hit the service-wide rate limit slept
up to 600 s, retried into the same refusal, slept again, and then sent its
third attempt on a guest JWT that had expired during the wait. The welcome
host answered 403 "invalid jwt", which read as the tier being switched off.
The user watched a spinner for about 18 minutes and then saw the wrong card.
- An attended session (desktop, TUI, the interactive CLI, ACP) on the free
model ends the attempt cycle at once when the cooldown is longer than
60 s: fallback first, else the reset time and the sign-in / model doors.
"Attended" is keyed on the session source, so `hermes chat -q`, cron and
messaging sessions keep the long wait. The source vocabulary moves from
run_agent.py into agent/session_source.py, which adds is_attended().
- on_free_model() (welcome host + anonymous credential) is the one free-tier
check, used by the cutoff, the "free model is busy" wait copy and the
outage copy.
- A welcome-host 403 "invalid jwt" is its own route kind, session_expired:
the existing one-shot route heal re-exchanges the credential and retries;
if that fails the card is the retryable outage card.
- interruptible_backoff_sleep adopts a fresh Nous key after each wait.
_adopt_nous_key_before_expiry owns its refresh failure, so both call
sites drop their try/except.
- A retry wait over 60 s is announced in the transcript when it starts, for
every provider; shorter waits stay buffered. Every wait line names the
attempt that runs after it.
- max_retries_exhausted_result's max_retries becomes attempts (what it
carries); a one-attempt rate-limit end gets its own lead.
- One Retry-After reader, retry_utils.provider_retry_after_seconds, shared
by compute_error_backoff and the recovery ladder.
- _session_default_route replaces _session_default_model everywhere in
tui_gateway, so a not-yet-built free-tier session reports nous/welcome on
create, reuse, resume, branch and row persist, not the silent default.
* fix(agent): free-tier cutoff no longer ends subagent or library turns, paid waits look like main (review)
A delegated child of a TUI/Desktop session and a library caller (no platform) are unattended, so they keep waiting.
Rate-limit wait lines keep main's attempt numbers and stay buffered for every provider; only a non-rate-limit Retry-After over 60 s is announced, as on main.
The unattended free-tier wait line keeps the reset time beside "The free model is busy".
The free-tier cutoff names the reset time for any cooldown it fires on (over 60 s), not only from 120 s.
session.info for an env-seeded model off the free tier carries the model alone again, as on main.
Behaviour tests for the cutoff, the subagent and unattended waits, and a paid long wait.
