Two follow-ups from Opus pre-release review of stage-336:
1. tests/conftest.py — autouse session fixture that removes
HERMES_WEBUI_SKIP_ONBOARDING from os.environ for the whole pytest run, and
restores it after. Hosting providers and isolated harnesses set this var
to short-circuit the onboarding wizard, but it leaked into pytest and
caused tests that exercise apply_onboarding_setup() to fail with cryptic
FileNotFoundError. Tests that specifically validate the short-circuit
behavior can opt back in with monkeypatch.setenv. Surgical per-test
delenv calls remain as defense-in-depth but are now redundant.
2. docs/rfcs/README.md — one-line note that first-time contributor RFCs
should be discussed in an issue before opening a PR. Gates drive-by
design-doc PRs without us having to decline them on contribution.
Verified: 96 onboarding-related tests pass with HERMES_WEBUI_SKIP_ONBOARDING=1
exported in the test runner env (would have failed before this fixture).
Moves docs/turn-journal-rfc.md → docs/rfcs/turn-journal.md, establishing
the convention for future design documents on hermes-webui's data-at-rest
and recovery surfaces. Adds docs/rfcs/README.md describing when an RFC
applies (large changes, durability/recovery semantics, new infrastructure
primitives) and the simple status header convention.
Polish on turn-journal.md:
- Added 3-line status header (Status / Author / Created) at top.
- Light tone edits on two flourishes that read fine in a PR description
but felt off in permanent repo documentation. Author's voice preserved
throughout the rest of the document.
Co-authored-by: ai-ag2026 <261867348+ai-ag2026@users.noreply.github.com>
Note: PR #1827 was branched before v0.51.19 shipped #1812, which
introduced an initial (pure live-fetch) Codex provider card hook in
api/providers.py at the same line range. The contributor's PR was
filed AFTER #1812 shipped but their diff didn't yet account for it.
Stage 314 absorbs the contributor's intent (visible Codex cache
merge for gpt-5.3-codex-spark visibility) by replacing the v0.51.19
hook with the richer merged version directly in stage. Production
code change ≡ what the contributor's PR would have produced if
rebased onto current master. Test file + pr-media adopted verbatim.
Marker commit so the stage log makes the absorption visible.
Closes#1695.
@Patrick-81 reported the bare "AIAgent not available -- check that
hermes-agent is on sys.path" error on a symlinked install (~/Programmes/hermes-agent
linked to ~/hermes-agent). The maintainer's response — three diagnostic
commands plus `pip install -e .` in the agent dir — fixed it for them.
This PR captures both halves of that learning so the next user with the
same shape doesn't have to file a new issue:
1. **Error message diagnostic block.** New helper
`_aiagent_import_error_detail()` in api/streaming.py builds a multi-line
diagnostic when the import fails, including:
- the running Python interpreter
- HERMES_WEBUI_AGENT_DIR (set value, or "(not set)")
- sys.path entries that mention hermes/agent (or "no entries mention..."
— itself a strong diagnostic signal)
- the most-common fix (`pip install -e .` in the agent dir)
- a pointer to docs/troubleshooting.md
The original error message string is preserved as the FIRST line so
existing log scrapers and docs-search keep matching.
Helper is kept as a separate function so it stays out of the hot path
until we actually need to raise — building it on every successful import
would be wasted work.
2. **New docs/troubleshooting.md.** Symptom → Why → Diagnostic commands →
Fix → When-to-file-a-bug template, with one entry to start: the
"AIAgent not available" flow Patrick-81 walked through. Future
recurring failure modes follow the same template. Required a one-line
addition to .gitignore — docs/* is gitignored with an allowlist, and
the new file needed `!docs/troubleshooting.md` to be tracked.
3. **README link.** docs/troubleshooting.md added to the `## Docs` section
so users know where to look first.
13 regression tests in tests/test_1695_aiagent_import_error_detail.py:
9 for the helper output shape (preserves original message line, includes
running python, shows HERMES_WEBUI_AGENT_DIR set/unset both ways, includes
pip-install-e hint, points at troubleshooting doc, lists relevant sys.path
entries when present, says "no entries..." when absent, output is multi-line)
plus 4 for the docs-presence regression (file exists, has the AIAgent
section, includes pip install -e ., describes the diagnostic chain with
readlink + agent/__init__.py verification).
190 streaming/aiagent tests pass after the change. ast.parse on
api/streaming.py clean.
CI failure on prior push was due to the docs/* gitignore swallowing the
new troubleshooting.md file silently — this commit adds the allowlist
entry so the file is tracked.
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