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hermes-agent/agent/terminal_approval_batch.py
Teknium 911da42e9e refactor(security): remove the bundled tirith scanner from core
tirith ran `tirith check` on every terminal command, default-on with fail-open, as a
pinned PM binary auto-downloaded at startup. Measured against the shipped 0.4.2 binary
it caught 14/16 attack commands but flagged 12/24 everyday agent commands
(`echo $((6*7))`, `"$VAR/x.sh"`, `gh api | python3`, LAN curls, `.dev` hosts,
`pip install` via analysis_incomplete), and in cron/-q deny mode each of those is a
hard block. It only ever saw terminal strings (execute_code, writes and the browser
bypass it), fail-open meant no protection wherever the binary could not install
(Windows, Termux, x64 musl), and it produced a steady issue/PR stream (fail_open
semantics four times, install loops filling disks, a SIGSEGV hang, session-approval
scoping, third-party promo text on approval cards).

Removed: tools/tirith_security.py, the tirith branches of the command guard (the
is_tirith tuple, session-only "always" downgrade, import-error/fail-open paths,
unattended tirith pass), the CLI and gateway startup installers, the PM package and
lock pins, the nix runtime dep, security.tirith_* defaults, the CLI warning string
and three tirith tips (gaps refilled from the tail so translations survive), plus
the gateway's "no automated assessor" warning that only existed to point at tirith.

Config v50 drops security.tirith_* and enables nothing in its place. Hermes ships
no tirith plugin; if tirith upstream publishes one, it goes through normal catalog
admission under their name.
2026-10-06 14:22:13 -07:00

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"""Prepare desktop terminal consent without running shells ahead of their turn.
Workers keep execution middleware on its original stack. Only command approval
runs ahead; the existing sequential executor releases each worker and persists
its result before releasing the next. No terminal environment/cwd is acquired
while preparing, and the real execution still runs every command guard.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import contextvars
import copy
import threading
import time
from contextlib import contextmanager
from typing import Any
from tools.thread_context import propagate_context_to_thread
_batch: contextvars.ContextVar[Any] = contextvars.ContextVar("terminal_approval_batch", default=None)
_slot: contextvars.ContextVar[Any] = contextvars.ContextVar("terminal_approval_slot", default=None)
class _CancelledPreparation(Exception):
pass
class _TerminalSlot:
def __init__(self, batch, parsed, index):
self.batch, self.parsed, self.index = batch, parsed, index
self.ready = threading.Event()
self.release = threading.Event()
self.future: Any = None
self.tids = []
self.preparing = False
self.args = None
self.decision = None
self.guard_key = None
self.claimed = False
def check_cancelled(self):
if self.batch.cancelled.is_set() or self.batch.agent._interrupt_requested:
raise _CancelledPreparation("Terminal approval preparation cancelled; command was not started")
def prepare(self, ref):
from tools import terminal_tool as tt
self.check_cancelled()
self.args = copy.deepcopy(ref.args)
self.preparing = True
try:
# Read policy only. _plan_execution/_acquire_env resolve cwd and
# shell state later, after the previous result has been persisted.
config = tt._get_env_config()
if isinstance(ref.args.get("command"), str):
from tools.approval_context import set_current_observability_context, reset_current_observability_context
tokens = set_current_observability_context(
tool_call_id=ref.call_id, session_id=self.batch.agent.session_id or "",
turn_id=getattr(self.batch.agent, "_current_turn_id", "") or "",
)
try:
self.guard_key = (ref.args["command"], config["env_type"], tt._docker_has_host_access(config))
self.decision = tt._check_all_guards(*self.guard_key)
finally:
reset_current_observability_context(tokens)
finally:
self.preparing = False
self.ready.set()
while not self.release.wait(0.1):
self.check_cancelled()
self.check_cancelled()
def run(self):
from agent import tool_executor as te
token = _slot.set(self)
pc, batch = self.parsed, self.batch
ref = pc.ref(batch.task_id)
try:
with te._registered_tool_worker(batch.agent) as tid:
self.tids.append(tid)
self.check_cancelled()
dispatch = te._resolve_sequential_dispatch(batch.agent, ref, batch.messages)
return te._run_agent_tool_execution_middleware(
batch.agent, **ref.middleware_kwargs(), execute=dispatch.execute,
scope_block=pc.scope_block, display_index=self.index + 1,
authorization_gate=batch.authorization_gate,
)
finally:
self.ready.set()
_slot.reset(token)
class _TerminalBatch:
def __init__(self, agent, messages, task_id, parsed):
from agent.tool_executor import _ConcurrentToolAuthorizationGate
from tools.daemon_pool import DaemonThreadPoolExecutor
self.agent, self.messages, self.task_id = agent, messages, task_id
self.cancelled = threading.Event()
self.pending_approvals = [] # guarded by tools.approval._lock
self.authorization_gate = _ConcurrentToolAuthorizationGate()
self.executor = DaemonThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=len(parsed))
self.slots = [_TerminalSlot(self, pc, i) for i, pc in enumerate(parsed)]
# Set once ANY slot in the batch has published a failed result (or a
# denied/blocked one). Informed consent is per the batch state the user
# SAW: after a failure, a later slot's pre-collected approval no longer
# describes the world its command will run in, so it must not be
# consumed — the guard re-runs live instead (#113158).
self.failure_seen = False
def start(self):
from agent.tool_executor import _resolve_sequential_tool_timeout
for slot in self.slots:
slot.check_cancelled()
slot.future = self.executor.submit(propagate_context_to_thread(slot.run))
timeout = _resolve_sequential_tool_timeout()
started = time.monotonic()
baseline = self.authorization_gate.excluded_seconds()
# Proceed once the worker publishes a human request OR completes
# preparation. A wedged plugin must not hold the batch forever.
while not slot.ready.wait(0.1):
slot.check_cancelled()
elapsed = time.monotonic() - started - (self.authorization_gate.excluded_seconds() - baseline)
if timeout is not None and elapsed >= timeout:
raise TimeoutError("Terminal approval preparation timed out; commands were not started")
def close(self):
from agent.tool_executor import _interrupt_worker_tids
from tools import approval
# Withdraw only this batch's requests, including a worker wedged in
# notify_cb. Thread interrupts alone leave those requests actionable.
with approval._lock:
self.cancelled.set()
for session_key, entry in self.pending_approvals:
queue = approval._gateway_queues.get(session_key, [])
if entry in queue:
queue.remove(entry)
entry.result = "deny"
entry.event.set()
if not queue:
approval._gateway_queues.pop(session_key, None)
self.pending_approvals.clear()
for slot in self.slots:
slot.release.set()
if slot.future is not None and not slot.future.done():
_interrupt_worker_tids(self.agent, slot.tids)
slot.future.cancel()
self.executor.shutdown(wait=False, cancel_futures=True)
def prepare_current_terminal(ref):
slot = _slot.get()
if slot is not None and ref.name == "terminal":
slot.prepare(ref)
def bind_prepared_dispatch(dispatch):
"""A middleware-owned thread must not lose the batch's execution barrier."""
slot = _slot.get()
if slot is None:
return dispatch
from agent.tool_executor import _registered_tool_worker
owner_tid = threading.get_ident()
def tracked(*args, **kwargs):
if threading.get_ident() == owner_tid:
return dispatch(*args, **kwargs)
with _registered_tool_worker(slot.batch.agent) as tid:
slot.tids.append(tid)
slot.check_cancelled()
return dispatch(*args, **kwargs)
invoke = propagate_context_to_thread(tracked)
# Each batch slot has exactly one dispatch. Reject concurrent/replayed
# continuations before entering its captured Context on another thread.
lock = threading.Lock()
claimed = False
def once(*args, **kwargs):
nonlocal claimed
with lock:
if claimed:
raise RuntimeError("Hermes tool execution callback invoked more than once")
claimed = True
return invoke(*args, **kwargs)
return once
def take_prepared_call(call_id):
batch = _batch.get()
if batch is None:
return None
for slot in batch.slots:
if slot.parsed.ref(batch.task_id).call_id == call_id and not slot.claimed:
slot.claimed = True
slot.check_cancelled()
slot.release.set()
return slot
return None
def approval_published():
slot = _slot.get()
if slot is not None:
slot.ready.set()
def register_prepared_approval(session_key, entry):
"""Called under the approval queue lock, before enqueueing the request."""
slot = _slot.get()
if slot is not None:
slot.check_cancelled()
slot.batch.pending_approvals.append((session_key, entry))
def consume_prepared_guard(command, env_type, has_host_access):
slot = _slot.get()
if slot is None or slot.preparing:
return None
slot.check_cancelled()
# Re-gate after an earlier slot in the same batch failed (#113158): the
# user approved a batch where every command was expected to run; once one
# failed, that informed consent is stale for the commands after it, so
# drop the pre-made decision and let the guard run its live flow
# (allowlist, human approval). Nothing is auto-denied: an explicit
# human answer still wins; the prepared (often auto/policy) decision is
# simply not consumed.
if slot.batch.failure_seen and slot.decision is not None:
slot.decision = None
return None
from tools.approval_context import _approval_tool_call_id
if (_approval_tool_call_id.get() != slot.parsed.ref(slot.batch.task_id).call_id
or slot.guard_key != (command, env_type, has_host_access)):
return None
decision, slot.decision = slot.decision, None # single-use, even for identical calls
# Batching exists to publish the human asks together. An approval nobody answered (/yolo,
# approvals.mode off, the allowlist, a clean command) is policy, and the policy in force NOW
# governs: switching YOLO or "Approvals: off" off mid-batch must stop the later commands.
if decision is not None and decision.get("approved") and not decision.get("user_approved"):
from tools.approval_context import _get_approval_mode
if not (decision.get("smart_approved") and _get_approval_mode() == "smart"):
return None
return decision
def preparing_terminal_approval():
slot = _slot.get()
return slot is not None and slot.preparing
def mark_batch_outcome(failed: bool) -> None:
"""Record that the batch's current slot published a failed result.
Called by the sequential publisher AFTER a result is committed, so the
flag lands only for failures the model actually sees (a wedged worker's
late result never publishes). Sticky for the batch: one failure re-gates
every later prepared slot (#113158); successes leave it alone — a later
success must not un-stale an approval after an even earlier failure.
"""
batch = _batch.get()
if batch is not None and failed:
batch.failure_seen = True
def validate_prepared_terminal(args):
slot = _slot.get()
if slot is not None:
slot.check_cancelled()
# Middleware/registry coercion must not turn a prepared consent into
# authority for different arguments, even with identical display text.
if args != slot.args:
slot.decision = None
raise RuntimeError("Terminal arguments changed after approval preparation; command was not started")
def terminal_approval_runs(agent, calls):
"""Keep nonterminal barriers, but batch adjacent terminals in mixed segments."""
from itertools import groupby
from agent.tool_executor import _parse_tool_call
def is_terminal(call):
pc = _parse_tool_call(agent, call, flatten_probe=True)
return pc.name == "terminal" and pc.parse_error is None
for _, run in groupby(calls, key=is_terminal):
yield list(run)
@contextmanager
def terminal_approval_batch(agent, calls, messages, task_id):
from gateway.session_context import get_session_env
from tools import approval
from agent.tool_executor import _parse_tool_call
if (len(calls) < 2 or get_session_env("HERMES_SESSION_SOURCE") != "desktop"
or approval._gateway_notify_cb(approval.get_current_session_key()) is None):
yield
return
parsed = [_parse_tool_call(agent, call, flatten_probe=True) for call in calls]
# Never prepare across a nonterminal barrier; leave mixed segments and
# malformed calls with the established sequential path.
ids = [pc.ref(task_id).call_id for pc in parsed]
if (any(pc.name != "terminal" or pc.parse_error is not None for pc in parsed)
or not all(ids) or len(set(ids)) != len(ids)):
yield
return
batch = _TerminalBatch(agent, messages, task_id, parsed)
token = _batch.set(batch)
try:
if not agent._interrupt_requested and not getattr(agent, "_incremental_persistence_failed", False):
try:
batch.start()
except (_CancelledPreparation, TimeoutError) as exc:
batch.close()
agent.interrupt(str(exc))
# The sequential path must still persist a result for every
# assistant tool call, even if preparation never finished.
yield
finally:
batch.close()
_batch.reset(token)