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hermes-agent/agent
yy28 b684cbb094 fix(title): stop model-switch marker from becoming the session title
Switching models before sending the first real message titled the session
"[System: The active model for this chat has…" instead of the user's actual
question.

`_append_model_switch_marker` persists its notice with `role="user"` because
strict OpenAI-compatible providers reject a system message that is not first
(#48338). Titling had no way to tell that apart from a genuine opening turn,
which caused two distinct failures:

1. `_MACHINE_PREFIXES` did not cover the marker. Its `[System: ` prefix
   matches none of `[CONTEXT COMPACTION`, `[Runtime note:`, or `[SYSTEM]`
   (different case, no closing bracket), so `is_titleable_user_message()`
   returned True and the marker was formatted into the title.

2. `maybe_auto_title()` counted the marker as a user message. With the marker
   present, the first real question arrived at `user_msg_count == 2` and the
   `> 1` guard returned early, so the session was never titled at all and its
   `title` column stayed NULL. Fixing only (1) would therefore have traded a
   wrong title for a permanently missing one.

Add the marker prefix to `_MACHINE_PREFIXES` (kept in sync with
`tui_gateway.server._MODEL_SWITCH_MARKER_PREFIX`) and count only titleable
user messages when detecting the opening turn.

The guard stays narrow: ordinary user text that happens to start with
"[System:" still titles normally.

Adds 6 regression tests, verified to fail without the fix.
2026-08-09 04:33:58 -05:00
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