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nesquena-hermes a3af4a3c8f fix(profile/mcp): discover MCP tools after per-session HERMES_HOME mutation
Issue #1968: switching to a non-default profile in the WebUI dropdown
had no effect on which MCP servers were available. Every chat session,
regardless of profile, only saw the default profile's mcp_servers from
~/.hermes/config.yaml. Non-default profile MCP servers (postgres, custom
stdio servers, anything in <profile>/config.yaml) never registered.

Root cause: api/streaming.py:1922 called discover_mcp_tools() at the
TOP of _run_agent_streaming(), about 100 lines BEFORE the per-session
'os.environ["HERMES_HOME"] = _profile_home' mutation at line 2053.
discover_mcp_tools() reads ~/.hermes/config.yaml via get_hermes_home(),
which uses os.environ['HERMES_HOME']. So at the call site, HERMES_HOME
was still whatever the WebUI server process had at startup — the default
profile, every time.

Fix: relocate the discover_mcp_tools() call past the _ENV_LOCK block so
get_hermes_home() resolves to the session's actual profile home. Same
try/except wrapping is preserved; same idempotency semantics on
already-connected servers; same lazy-import pattern.

Caveat (out of scope, agent-side): _servers in tools/mcp_tool.py is a
process-global Dict[str, MCPServerTask] keyed only by server name. So
once profile A registers a server named e.g. 'postgres', profile B's
discovery sees 'postgres' as already connected and skips it — even if
B's config points at a different binary or DB. Concurrent multi-profile
WebUI processes will still hit 'first profile wins per server name'.
Fully fixing that requires keying _servers by (profile_home, name)
upstream in hermes-agent. This PR ships layer 1 only — fixes the
single-non-default-profile case (the headline symptom).

Tests: tests/test_issue1968_mcp_profile_discovery.py — 4 static tests
pinning the lexical ordering invariants. Verified mutation-safety: a
proof-of-concept revert (re-adding a discover call before the
HERMES_HOME mutation) makes the 'only called once' test fail.

Test suite: 5047 passed, 4 skipped, 3 xpassed, 0 regressions.

Closes #1968
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