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hermes-agent/tui_gateway/turn_marker.py
finn763 30e025c0c4 fix(tui_gateway): record a turn marker's writer and defer to it while alive (#94778)
A marker proved a turn had started, never that its writer had died, so a
second backend resuming the same session over a shared HERMES_HOME read a
sibling's live marker as crash evidence and started a duplicate turn over it.

record_turn_start now stamps writer_pid and, when readable, writer_start_time
(process create time, so a recycled pid cannot pass as the original writer)
and logs the identity — never the prompt. New marker_writer_state(entry)
answers alive/dead/unknown from active_sessions._pid_liveness, and
_maybe_schedule_auto_continue holds back when the writer is alive and is not
this process: no continuation, no "Resuming interrupted turn…" frame, and the
marker stays for its owner to clear.

Adds the two-backend regression: a real second process writes the marker and
keeps running while B resumes S (nothing scheduled, marker intact), then exits
and the same resume does schedule — so the live-writer gate is what defers B,
not some other switch.
2026-09-26 17:01:44 -05:00

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"""Durable interrupted-turn markers for the desktop/TUI auto-continue path. A running turn's progress
lives only in process memory (the agent flushes to SQLite at turn end), so a marker is written at turn
start and cleared on any conclusion — only a process death leaves one behind, and ``session.resume``
reads it (``_maybe_schedule_auto_continue``). Stored per ``HERMES_HOME`` (profile-aware); writes prune
entries older than ``_MAX_AGE_SECS`` and cap the count so a crash streak can't grow the file. Every
function is best-effort — marker bookkeeping must never break a turn — so I/O errors degrade to "no
marker" instead of raising. A marker also carries its writer's pid + start time (``marker_writer_state``): "a
marker exists" only implies the writer died when no live sibling backend wrote it (#94778)."""
from __future__ import annotations
import json
import logging
import os
import threading
import time
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Any
from utils import atomic_json_write
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
_MAX_AGE_SECS = 24 * 3600
_MAX_ENTRIES = 32
# Enough to re-submit any realistic prompt; guards against a multi-megabyte paste being journaled.
_MAX_PROMPT_CHARS = 64_000
_lock = threading.Lock()
def _marker_path(home: Path | str) -> Path:
return Path(home) / "desktop" / "interrupted_turns.json"
def _started_at(entry: dict) -> float:
return float(entry.get("started_at") or 0)
def _writer_identity() -> dict:
"""Best-effort identity of the process writing this marker. ``writer_pid`` alone already answers "who wrote
this, and are they still alive?" (``marker_writer_state``); ``writer_start_time`` pairs the pid with its create
time so a recycled pid cannot pass as the original writer. Identity is bookkeeping, never turn-critical, so
every failure degrades to a bare pid."""
identity = {"writer_pid": os.getpid()}
try:
from hermes_cli.active_sessions import _own_start_time
start = _own_start_time()
if start is not None:
identity["writer_start_time"] = float(start)
except Exception:
pass
return identity
def marker_writer_state(entry: dict) -> str:
"""``"alive"`` / ``"dead"`` / ``"unknown"``: is the process that wrote this marker still running?
A marker is durable proof a turn started — never proof its writer died. Two backends sharing one HERMES_HOME
break that assumption: A is mid-turn on session S while B resumes S, and B used to read A's marker as crash
evidence and start a second turn over it (#94778). Liveness comes from ``active_sessions._pid_liveness``
(pid + start time, so a reused pid reads dead), and "unknown" is the safe answer: it leaves the marker alone
without claiming its writer is gone.
"""
if not isinstance(entry, dict):
return "unknown"
pid = entry.get("writer_pid")
if not isinstance(pid, int) or isinstance(pid, bool) or pid <= 0:
return "unknown"
try:
from hermes_cli.active_sessions import _pid_liveness
live = _pid_liveness(pid, entry.get("writer_start_time"))
except Exception:
return "unknown"
return "unknown" if live is None else ("alive" if live else "dead")
def _load(path: Path) -> dict[str, dict]:
try:
with open(path, encoding="utf-8") as f:
data = json.load(f)
except FileNotFoundError:
return {}
except Exception:
logger.debug("unreadable turn-marker file %s; starting fresh", path, exc_info=True)
return {}
return {k: v for k, v in data.items() if isinstance(v, dict)} if isinstance(data, dict) else {}
def _prune(entries: dict[str, dict], now: float) -> dict[str, dict]:
fresh = {k: e for k, e in entries.items() if now - _started_at(e) <= _MAX_AGE_SECS}
if len(fresh) <= _MAX_ENTRIES:
return fresh
return dict(sorted(fresh.items(), key=lambda item: _started_at(item[1]), reverse=True)[:_MAX_ENTRIES])
def _store(path: Path, entries: dict[str, dict]) -> None:
if not entries:
path.unlink(missing_ok=True)
return
atomic_json_write(path, entries, indent=None, mode=0o600)
def _update(home: Path | str, session_key: str, mutate, what: str) -> None:
"""Load → ``mutate(entries)`` → store under the lock; ``mutate`` returns None to skip the write."""
try:
with _lock:
path = _marker_path(home)
entries = mutate(_load(path))
if entries is not None:
_store(path, entries)
except Exception:
logger.debug("failed to %s turn marker for %s", what, session_key, exc_info=True)
def record_turn_start(home: Path | str, session_key: str, prompt: str, *, attempts: int = 0,
auto_continue: bool = True, notification_category: str | None = None) -> None:
"""Persist the marker for a turn that is about to run. ``attempts`` = how many auto-continues led to
this run (0 for a user-initiated turn); the crash-loop breaker reads it back on the next resume."""
if not session_key or not prompt:
return
now = time.time()
entry = {"attempts": max(0, int(attempts)), "prompt": prompt[:_MAX_PROMPT_CHARS], "started_at": now,
"auto_continue": bool(auto_continue), **_writer_identity()}
if notification_category == "diagnostic":
entry["notification_category"] = notification_category
# Identity only — never the prompt: this log is read on crash triage and must not carry turn content.
logger.debug("turn marker recorded for session %s by writer pid %s", session_key, entry["writer_pid"])
_update(home, session_key, lambda entries: {**_prune(entries, now), session_key: entry}, "record")
def clear_turn_marker(home: Path | str, session_key: str) -> None:
"""Remove the marker once its turn concluded (any outcome the client saw)."""
if session_key:
_update(home, session_key, lambda e: {k: v for k, v in e.items() if k != session_key} if session_key in e else None, "clear")
def read_turn_marker(home: Path | str, session_key: str) -> dict[str, Any] | None:
"""The marker left by a turn that never concluded, or None."""
if not session_key:
return None
try:
with _lock:
entry = _load(_marker_path(home)).get(session_key)
prompt = str(entry.get("prompt") or "") if isinstance(entry, dict) else ""
if not prompt.strip():
return None
return {"attempts": max(0, int(entry.get("attempts") or 0)), "prompt": prompt, "started_at": _started_at(entry),
"auto_continue": bool(entry.get("auto_continue", True)),
# Writer identity when present: extra keys only, so a marker written by an older build still reads.
**{k: entry[k] for k in ("writer_pid", "writer_start_time") if entry.get(k) is not None},
**({"notification_category": "diagnostic"}
if entry.get("notification_category") == "diagnostic" else {})}
except Exception:
return None