`hermes profile delete` removes the profile directory and tears its runtime down, but the name is
also baked into durable identity the delete path never touches — `agent:<name>:*` routing keys,
`gateway_heartbeats.profile` and `delivery_obligations`. An inbound event on a chat keyed to the
dead name then enters the routing index, resolves a profile whose directory is gone, and logs
`Profile '<name>' does not exist` on every event for the life of the store (the #111926 flood,
reached from a *deleted* rather than a renamed profile). The delete side is now symmetric with the
rename rekey (`rekey_profile_state` / `rekey_profile_routing` / `migrate-profile-identity`), with
the same ownership rule:
- `SessionDB.purge_profile_state(name)` — the mirror of `rekey_profile_state`, in one
`_execute_write` transaction. Routing keys, heartbeat rows and the telegram topic rows the rekey
also owns are hard-deleted (a binding is matched by `profile_name` OR its `session_key`
namespace, because the rename rewrites both); `delivery_obligations` rows are terminalized
(`state='abandoned'`) rather than dropped, so pending delivery state is not lost silently.
- `SessionStore.purge_profile_routing(name)` — the mirror of `rekey_profile_routing`: drops the
in-memory entries and persists the drop. Mandatory, not belt-and-braces — the owning process
writes its in-memory copy back, so a durable delete made elsewhere is undone by its next save.
- A delete-only control verb `purge-profile-identity`, deliberately NOT inside
`_unserve_profile()`: that hook also unserves a rename's old name, whose identity the rekey still
has to migrate. `hermes profile delete` requires the owner's `{"ok": true}` answer and reports a
partial settlement (naming the retry) instead of a clean success.
- The retry is the new `hermes profile purge-identity <name>`. It refuses a name that is a live
profile again: the purge keys off the name alone, so `delete foo` (settlement pending) →
`create foo` → `purge-identity foo` would otherwise delete the NEW incarnation's identity. The
delete path tombstones the directory before it purges, so the guard never blocks the delete.
- `sessions` rows are not deleted by the purge: it settles identity, not history. What a delete
leaves of a profile's conversation record is `delete_profile`'s business — it removes the
profile's own home, `state.db` included.
Tests (`scripts/run_tests.sh`, red on base → green): `tests/hermes_state/test_purge_profile_state.py`,
`tests/gateway/test_purge_profile_routing.py`, `tests/gateway/test_profile_identity_purge.py`,
`tests/hermes_cli/test_profile_identity_purge_cmd.py` and `TestDeleteProfile` in
`tests/hermes_cli/test_profiles.py` — 95 passed, 0 failed across those five files.
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