feat(agents): add the Hermes CLI agent harness - #87
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Wraps the `hermes` binary as a first-class harness registered under the `hermes` key, so the benchmark can run against Hermes with the same capability wiring (MCP, skills, rules) and result contract as the other CLI harnesses. - Runs `hermes chat -q` in a run-scoped `$HERMES_HOME`, so config.yaml, .env and the state.db session store never leak into the user's ~/.hermes; `inherit_user_config` opts back into the ambient state. - Maps the provider onto the CLI's `--provider` backend via the shared `resolve_provider`, with the Vertex transport named `vertex`. - Reads the trajectory and token usage back from the run's SQLite state.db, mapping the `sessions` token columns onto the canonical TOKEN_BUCKETS (cache reads -> `cached`, cache writes -> `cache_write`). Every failure path yields all-None buckets rather than a fake 0. Signed-off-by: Eugene Ng <ngeugene@google.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdded a builtin Hermes CLI agent with isolated run state, provider metadata, shared MCP and prompt handling, timeout support, and SQLite parsing for trajectories and token usage. ChangesHermes CLI agent
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Low risk: the new CLI harness is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up because existing provider-spec callers may break and MCP child processes may not receive configured isolation settings; the remaining concerns are limited to documentation and code organization. Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant AgentHarness
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AgentHarness->>HermesAgent: execute prompt and workspace
HermesAgent->>HermesCLI: run hermes chat with isolated configuration
HermesCLI-->>HermesSQLite: write session and message state
HermesAgent->>HermesSQLite: parse trajectory and tokens
HermesAgent-->>AgentHarness: return execution result and metadata
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47-49: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueOptional: build the read-only URI with escaping.
f"file:{db_path}?mode=ro"breaks if the path contains?or#. Run directories are harness-generated today, so this is defensive only.♻️ Proposed hardening
+from urllib.parse import quote + def _connect_ro(db_path: Path) -> sqlite3.Connection: """Open ``db_path`` read-only, so a live ``state.db`` is never locked.""" - return sqlite3.connect(f"file:{db_path}?mode=ro", uri=True) + return sqlite3.connect(f"file:{quote(str(db_path))}?mode=ro", uri=True)🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@devops_bench/agents/cli/hermes/parsing.py` around lines 47 - 49, Update _connect_ro to construct the SQLite read-only URI with proper path escaping, preserving the existing mode=ro and uri=True behavior so db_path values containing ? or # remain valid.devops_bench/agents/cli/hermes/agent.py (1)
216-216: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueOptional: format the timeout seconds for the error message.
timeout_secdefaults to600.0, so the default run reports "hermes agent timed out after 600.0s". Use{self.config.timeout_sec:g}for "600s".🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@devops_bench/agents/cli/hermes/agent.py` at line 216, Update the timeout error construction in the Hermes agent flow to format self.config.timeout_sec with general numeric formatting, so whole-number defaults such as 600.0 appear as 600 while preserving meaningful fractional values.tests/unit/agents/test_agents_cli_hermes.py (1)
74-96: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueAnnotate the test helpers and the
fake_runstubs.The test functions carry
-> None, but the helpers and mocks do not. Add annotations to_insert_session,_insert_message,_seed_state_db,mock_exists, and everyfake_runsignature. Thefake_runstubs stand in fordevops_bench.core.subprocess.run, so typed parameters also catch a future signature change at review time.♻️ Proposed annotations
-def _insert_session(path: Path, session_id: str, *counts) -> None: +def _insert_session(path: Path, session_id: str, *counts: int | None) -> None:-def _insert_message(path: Path, session_id: str, role: str, **fields) -> None: +def _insert_message(path: Path, session_id: str, role: str, **fields: str | None) -> None:-def _seed_state_db(home: Path, *, counts=(2748, 11267, 152, 334987, 12000)) -> None: +def _seed_state_db( + home: Path, *, counts: tuple[int, ...] = (2748, 11267, 152, 334987, 12000) +) -> None:As per path instructions: "Ensure test functions have proper type annotations and clean structure."
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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@tests/unit/agents/test_agents_cli_hermes.py` around lines 74 - 96, Annotate the test helpers and stubs with explicit return and parameter types: update _insert_session, _insert_message, _seed_state_db, mock_exists, and every fake_run signature. Type each fake_run parameter according to the subprocess.run-compatible interface so future signature changes are detected, while preserving the existing test behavior and structure.Source: Path instructions
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In `@devops_bench/agents/cli/hermes/agent.py`:
- Around line 142-163: Validate the result loaded by _yaml.load in
_prepare_config before using mapping operations: retain it only when it is a
mapping, otherwise replace it with an empty mapping. Ensure seeded list or
scalar config.yaml content still allows MCP server merging and writes a valid
mapping, and add coverage for a YAML list such as “- a\n- b\n”.
- Around line 20-23: Update the module docstring’s “State isolation” description
to reflect that _execute() creates <workspace>/.hermes after snapshotting,
causing config.yaml and state.db to be collected under generated_files/, and
that inherit_user_config=True also copies SOUL.md; remove the inaccurate claim
that these files stay out of collected artifacts.
In `@devops_bench/agents/cli/hermes/parsing.py`:
- Around line 27-44: The _SESSION_TOKEN_COLUMNS mapping currently assigns
output_tokens directly to the output bucket while reasoning_tokens is also
counted separately. Update the parsing logic using _SESSION_TOKEN_COLUMNS so
visible output subtracts reasoning_tokens from output_tokens, or reuse Hermes’s
prompt-plus-completion total, ensuring total does not double-count reasoning
tokens.
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In `@devops_bench/agents/cli/hermes/agent.py`:
- Line 216: Update the timeout error construction in the Hermes agent flow to
format self.config.timeout_sec with general numeric formatting, so whole-number
defaults such as 600.0 appear as 600 while preserving meaningful fractional
values.
In `@devops_bench/agents/cli/hermes/parsing.py`:
- Around line 47-49: Update _connect_ro to construct the SQLite read-only URI
with proper path escaping, preserving the existing mode=ro and uri=True behavior
so db_path values containing ? or # remain valid.
In `@tests/unit/agents/test_agents_cli_hermes.py`:
- Around line 74-96: Annotate the test helpers and stubs with explicit return
and parameter types: update _insert_session, _insert_message, _seed_state_db,
mock_exists, and every fake_run signature. Type each fake_run parameter
according to the subprocess.run-compatible interface so future signature changes
are detected, while preserving the existing test behavior and structure.
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Hermes stores output_tokens as the provider's full completion count with reasoning_tokens as a subset of it, while the canonical output bucket excludes reasoning. Subtract it out so total counts reasoning once and matches Hermes's own prompt-plus-completion figure. Also from PR review: - ignore a seeded config.yaml that parses to a non-mapping instead of aborting the run on the merge - percent-encode the state.db path in the read-only SQLite URI - correct the module docstring's state-isolation claim - format the timeout seconds with :g - annotate the test helpers and subprocess stubs Signed-off-by: Eugene Ng <ngeugene@google.com>
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Three defects found while running the harness end-to-end against a real hermes binary: * ``--provider`` was derived from ``ProviderSpec.adapter_family``, which only coincidentally matches hermes's own provider names. ``openai`` emitted ``openai`` (hermes wants ``openai-api``) and hard-failed, ``anthropic-bedrock`` emitted ``claude`` and resolved to the direct Anthropic API instead of Bedrock, and ``anthropic-vertex`` emitted ``vertex``, which hermes serves with Gemini only. Map explicitly and raise ``ConfigError`` for the provider hermes cannot serve. * hermes exits 0 on a rejected API key, an unknown provider, and an API call whose retries all failed, so those runs reached the metrics as a genuinely bad answer. Flag a zero exit that recorded no model usage. * Only ``KUBECONFIG`` was forwarded into the MCP server env block, so a gcloud-backed server read the ambient developer config under ``--parallel``. Forward ``CLOUDSDK_CONFIG`` as well.
…acts Hermes installs its own 82-skill catalog into HERMES_HOME on first run and sources repo-local skills when the session starts inside a checkout, so a task granted no skills was still offered a ``devops`` pack. Write the ``.no-bundled-skills`` marker and set ``skills.project_discovery: false``, leaving the granted skills as the only ones advertised (verified: the prompt index drops from 82 skills to 1). The run home also carried hermes's vendored binary, models.dev catalog download, and request cache into the workspace snapshot -- 31 MB of ``generated_files`` per task. Drop them once the state DB has been read; the run's evidence (state.db, config.yaml, logs) is kept, and the home lands at 1.3 MB.
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In `@devops_bench/agents/cli/hermes/agent.py`:
- Line 262: Update the mcp_servers merge in the configuration setup to validate
the existing config_data["mcp_servers"] value before dictionary expansion. Reuse
it only when it is a mapping; otherwise substitute an empty mapping, emit a
warning, and then merge servers so Hermes startup continues.
- Around line 257-262: Update _prepare_config to use the effective isolation
values from AgentConfig.extra_env, including KUBECONFIG and CLOUDSDK_CONFIG,
when populating each MCP server’s env entries before assigning
config_data["mcp_servers"]; add a regression test covering extra_env propagation
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…rvers The isolation vars handed to each MCP server were read from os.environ only, so an operator override in extra_env -- which wins for hermes itself in _build_env -- left the servers on a different cluster. Resolve both in the same precedence. Also skip a seeded mcp_servers that is not a mapping (e.g. 'mcp_servers: disabled') instead of raising TypeError on the merge before hermes starts.
Consolidate the MCP run-isolation vars into one shared list owned by `mcp_isolation_env` and drop the per-agent `keys` argument. openclaw was forwarding only KUBECONFIG, so a gcloud-backed MCP server it spawned read the operator's ambient credentials instead of the run's CLOUDSDK_CONFIG. Both vars narrow what the child can reach, so a shorter list is a looser sandbox rather than a tighter one. Also carries the rest of the review fixes across hermes, its parsing, and the provider contract.
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In `@devops_bench/agents/cli/hermes/agent.py`:
- Around line 217-219: Update the docstring near the bundled-skill catalog setup
to clarify that granted skills are the only additional skills available, while
preserving that Hermes retains the essential hermes-agent skill.
In `@devops_bench/agents/shared/cli_capabilities.py`:
- Around line 15-20: Remove provider-specific CLI names and direct
CLOUDSDK_CONFIG access from the shared capability layer, including the affected
environment and launch-map handling. Resolve provider-specific environment
values in the appropriate provider or deployer module, then pass a neutral
environment mapping into the shared capability helpers while preserving existing
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- Line 70: Update the ProviderSpec.hermes_provider field to retain constructor
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| The CLI agents render granted MCP bindings into a ``{name: {command, args}}`` | ||
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Move provider-specific environment policy out of the shared layer.
This generic module names provider-specific CLIs and reads CLOUDSDK_CONFIG directly. Keep the shared helper neutral. Resolve provider-specific variables in a provider or deployer module, then pass a neutral environment mapping into shared capability code.
As per coding guidelines, “provider-specific terms and environment variables belong only in provider-specific modules, deployer implementations, or tf/.” As per path instructions, generic layers must not read provider-specific environment variables.
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In `@devops_bench/agents/shared/cli_capabilities.py` around lines 15 - 20, Remove
provider-specific CLI names and direct CLOUDSDK_CONFIG access from the shared
capability layer, including the affected environment and launch-map handling.
Resolve provider-specific environment values in the appropriate provider or
deployer module, then pass a neutral environment mapping into the shared
capability helpers while preserving existing capability behavior.
Sources: Coding guidelines, Path instructions
- Move the child-scoped env list to `core.run_env` as `CHILD_SCOPED_ENVS`. The shared CLI capability layer no longer names provider-specific vars, and the list now lives in the module that points them at per-run paths, so adding a var there has one place to update rather than two. - `ProviderSpec.hermes_provider` defaults to `None`. The model is public and frozen; a required new field breaks every external constructor, and "hermes cannot serve this provider" is the right default. - Correct `_prepare_config`'s docstring: the bundled-catalog marker cannot remove hermes's own `hermes-agent` skill, so granted skills are the only *additional* ones the agent sees.
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Adds a
hermesCLI agent harness, ported from gke-labs/devops-bench#178 and rewired onto this repo's current interfaces.Hermes (NousResearch/hermes-agent) is driven as a subprocess; everything the run needs is laid down in a run-scoped
$HERMES_HOMEso a benchmark run never reads or writes the developer's~/.hermes.How capabilities are wired
mcp_serversentries in$HERMES_HOME/config.yaml(plusKUBECONFIGpassed through to each server's env)$HERMES_HOME/skills/<name>/SKILL.mdhermes chathas no system-prompt flagconfig.api_keyexported to the env vars the resolvedProviderSpecnamesHERMES_HOMEis<workspace>/.hermes, so hermes still runs withcwdset to the harness workspace (relative paths in a task resolve where the harness expects) while its config and session DB stay in a single subdirectory instead of scattering across the artifact diff.Token buckets
Trajectory and usage are read back from the run's SQLite
state.db. Thesessionscolumns map onto the canonical buckets fromdevops_bench.agents.result:sessionscolumninput_tokensinputcache_read_tokenscachedcache_write_tokenscache_writereasoning_tokensreasoningoutput_tokensoutputtotal(sum of the reported buckets)Counts are summed across all session rows, since the DB is run-scoped and a run may write more than one. Unreported buckets stay
Nonerather than becoming a fabricated0— a missing DB, an older schema without the token columns, or any read failure all yield all-None.extract_tokens_from_dbopens the DB read-only (mode=roURI) so a livestate.dbis never locked.Testing
46 unit tests in
tests/unit/agents/test_agents_cli_hermes.pycovering registration, provider/model argv mapping, config generation and merge, skills/MCP materialization, the four_executeexit paths (success, non-zero exit, timeout, missing binary), trajectory pairing and its malformed-input paths, and every token bucket. Two guards worth calling out:test_tokens_fill_every_canonical_bucketfails ifTOKEN_BUCKETSgains a bucket this parser skips.test_tokens_reach_the_result_row_unchangedruns the parser output throughnormalize_tokens, so a renamed bucket fails loudly here instead of silently readingNoneon the dashboard row.Full suite: 1227 passed.
ruff checkandruff formatclean.Notes
inputexcluding cache reads,outputexcluding reasoning — the Anthropic convention its column names mirror). Hermes is multi-provider; if it instead stores provider-native usage on some backends,totalwould double-count there. Flagged in a comment inparsing.py; unverified against a live run.Summary by CodeRabbit
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