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3b08423684 MUL-6260 fix(daemon): treat custom runtime fixed_args as the argv prefix (#7052)
* fix(daemon): treat custom runtime fixed_args as the argv prefix (MUL-6260)

A custom runtime profile configured as `ccms start q36` failed every task
with `unknown option '-p'`. The profile's fixed_args were merged into
ExecOptions.ExtraArgs, which each backend appends *after* the protocol
flags it hardcodes, so the wrapper saw `-p` before its own `start`
subcommand had been selected and rejected it (GH #7046).

Ordering was only half the defect. ExtraArgs is opt-in — six of the
twenty-one backends read it — so on the other fifteen families, including
every ACP one, fixed_args were silently discarded rather than misordered.
Model discovery and `--version` probing carried the profile's path but not
its arguments, so even a fixed launch would have left the model picker and
the reported version describing the wrapper instead of the CLI behind it.

fixed_args now travel as agent.Config.LaunchPrefix and are spliced in
directly after the executable, ahead of everything a backend builds. The
prefix is applied by a new Command boundary in launch.go through which
every runtime process in the package is constructed — launches, version
probes and discovery alike — so a backend cannot forget it. A guard test
fails the build if any file outside launch.go calls os/exec directly;
distributed opt-in is what let ExtraArgs rot, and repeating it would rot
the same way.

Flag-style commands (`agent --model composer-2.5`) are unaffected: a CLI
takes its own flags in any position, which is why prefix-first can be the
single order rather than a per-runtime setting.

One deliberate behaviour change. The prefix used to sit last and win every
last-wins parse, so a profile pinning `--model` silently overrode the model
chosen on the agent — the UI showed one model and ran another. Prefix-first
inverts that: the more specific per-agent choice is the later token and
wins. Overlaps are logged. Protocol-critical flags are filtered out of the
prefix once in New(), which knows the family; positional tokens always pass
through. Codex additionally strips `-c` overrides aimed at daemon-managed
config namespaces, since those beat config.toml from any argv position.

The order was never documented, and every shipped fixed_args example is
flag-style, so this fills in a contract rather than breaking one.

Co-authored-by: multica-agent <[email protected]>

* fix(daemon): close the launch-prefix gaps found in review (MUL-6260)

Four defects from the first round of review on the fixed_args-as-argv-prefix
change.

Hermes could escape its own task overlay. The profile selection was resolved
from custom_args alone and stripped from custom_args alone, so a profile
configured as `hermes -p research` kept that flag in the launch prefix and
re-pointed HERMES_HOME past the overlay the daemon had just built. Resolution
now parses the argv hermes actually sees — launch prefix then custom args, in
process order — and the strip covers both regions. It also removes every
selection rather than the first: taking out the first promotes the second, and
two separately-configured argv regions make "two selections" an ordinary
configuration rather than a user mistake.

Positional tokens were not passing through as documented. filterLaunchPrefix
delegated to filterCustomArgs, whose blocklists deliberately carry positional
tokens — hermes and qwenpaw block `acp`, traecli blocks `acp`/`serve`, grok
blocks `agent`/`stdio`/`serve` — because in custom_args those are someone
re-issuing the backend's own subcommand. In a launch prefix the same token is
the command's identity, so `hermes-wrapper acp tenant` was being rewritten to
`tenant`. Only a leading `-` now makes a token eligible for the blocklist; a
blocked flag still consumes its separate value so no stray value survives to be
read as a subcommand.

Codex fast mode lost to the prefix. `--disable fast_mode` beats `--enable
fast_mode` regardless of argv order and `-c features.fast_mode=false` beats
config.toml from any position, so prefix-first does not protect an explicitly
selected priority tier. The removal half of enforceCodexFastMode is now a
separate helper applied to the prefix too; the managed enable is still appended
once, on the final args.

Windows CI could not compile the daemon tests: the Command migration left an
unused `path := runtimeCmd.Path` in a hook whose body never referenced it.
Verified with GOOS=windows and GOOS=linux vet, which is what should have caught
it the first time.

Also softens the docs and the Command doc comment: flag-style prefixes usually
parse the same in either position, but a CLI that separates global from
subcommand flags can care, so the runtime docs now name the position change and
tell operators with existing fixed_args to re-run one task after upgrading
instead of promising the move is invisible.

Co-authored-by: multica-agent <[email protected]>

* fix(daemon): resolve and strip the Hermes profile from the real launch argv (MUL-6260)

Second-round review found the Hermes profile chain still reasoning about a
hand-assembled approximation of the command line instead of the command line
itself. The backend launches `<prefix> acp <filtered custom args>`, but the
daemon assembled `<prefix> <custom args>` — no `acp`, no filtering — and that
token participates in Hermes' own argv scan.

With fixed_args `--model` and custom_args `-p research`, the approximation
reads `-p` as `--model`'s value and finds no selection, so the overlay is
seeded from the default home; the real `--model acp -p research` skips
`--model acp` and selects `research`. The selector was then stripped, so the
task stayed inside the overlay — but an overlay built from the wrong profile,
silently.

Stripping had the matching defect, and this one was still an escape rather than
a mismatch. A launch prefix ending in a bare `-p` captures the backend's `acp`
as its profile value, so neither region holds a complete selection and
per-region stripping removes nothing: `-p acp research --yolo` reaches Hermes
intact and re-points HERMES_HOME straight out of the overlay.

Both halves now go through one assembly. agent.HermesLaunchArgv builds exactly
what hermesBackend.Execute builds — the backend calls the same helper, so they
cannot drift — and the daemon resolves from it. StripHermesProfileSelectors
strips against that same argv and hands surviving tokens back to the region
they came from, iterating to a fixed point because removing one selection
promotes the next. The `acp` token is never removed; the backend re-adds it,
and dropping the flag that captured it is what breaks the selection.

StripAllHermesProfileArgs, hermesLaunchArgs and hermesEffectiveArgs are gone:
each was only ever correct on a complete argv, and keeping them would leave the
same footgun for the next caller.

Tests cover the case the review named (prefix ending in a value-taking flag,
custom args opening with a selector), the straddling-selection escape, multiple
occurrences across both regions, and an invalid value left untouched because
Hermes discards it anyway.

Co-authored-by: multica-agent <[email protected]>

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Co-authored-by: J <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: multica-agent <[email protected]>
2026-08-17 15:11:36 +08:00
b30a3ae55c MUL-6164 feat(runtime): take an unusable agent CLI offline and refuse its triggers with the fix (#6966)
* fix(daemon): take a runtime offline when its CLI cannot be executed (MUL-6164)

A CLI that cannot exec was classified as a transient probe failure, so the
runtime stayed online and every task it claimed died at fork/exec. The user in
MUL-6164 hit the same error once per task with no signal that the runtime was
the problem — an npm placeholder stub passes exec.LookPath, so nothing else the
daemon checks can tell it apart from a working install.

ENOEXEC (and its Windows spelling, ERROR_BAD_EXE_FORMAT) is a fact about the
bytes on disk, not a hiccup: it will reproduce until someone reinstalls. Give it
its own probe verdict and route it down the track below-minimum already uses —
claim barrier, seq-stamped hold, deregistration — so the provider goes offline
with its reason instead of collecting failed tasks. Recovery needs no new
machinery: a demoted provider has no runtime, which puts it back in
providersMissingRuntimes, and the first healthy probe clears the hold and lets
converge register it again, with no restart.

One thing the below-minimum track did not need: a confirmation window. The
repair we tell users to run overwrites the bin entry in place, so a probe landing
mid-copy sees a truncated file. Demotion therefore requires two sightings a
window apart; a genuinely broken install pays one extra probe round, and a
spurious verdict would in any case recover on its own.

detectBuiltinRuntimes' second return value is now "providers condemned this
round, with the evidence against them" rather than "below-minimum versions" —
same shape, both kinds, and the value is the reason /health already shows.

Co-authored-by: multica-agent <[email protected]>

* feat(runtime): refuse triggers for an unusable agent CLI instead of queueing them silently (MUL-6164)

Taking the runtime offline stopped the per-task failures, but it replaced them
with silence: the next @mention or assignment queued as if the machine were
merely asleep, and nothing ran for two hours until queued_expired. Waiting only
makes sense when waiting is a plan — a sleeping laptop comes back on its own; a
CLI that cannot be executed does not.

dispatch/reason.go already draws exactly that line between runtime_offline
("bring the machine back, queued work waits") and agent_runtime_required
("nothing will ever claim this"), and warns that collapsing the two sends users
to fix the wrong thing. This adds the third member of that family,
runtime_unusable, and routes the new verdict to it end to end:

- The daemon reports WHY on deregistration — a stable code plus the repair
  command read from the package's own manifest, since only that side knows the
  path. Stored on agent_runtime.metadata, which registration overwrites
  wholesale, so a repaired runtime drops the explanation structurally.
- AgentReadiness now returns a verdict (available / waitable / blocked) instead
  of a bool plus prose, and the direct-agent trigger paths start consulting it —
  blocking ONLY on the blocked verdict, so an offline machine still queues.
  agentReadinessReasonCode, which re-derived the same code from agent state, is
  gone: one source, no drift.
- Every path that refuses without a human watching the response leaves the
  reason on the issue: an assignment, or another agent's @mention. The
  interactive surfaces already carry the code back to the composer, which now
  localizes it in all four languages.

Below-minimum keeps today's behaviour deliberately. It is equally futile to wait
on, but changing when THAT refuses a trigger is a separate product decision.

Co-authored-by: multica-agent <[email protected]>

* fix(runtime): keep the unusable verdict through a late register, and repair Windows (MUL-6164 review)

Two ways the refusal path failed to reach the user.

The verdict could be erased by an older answer. A register whose request was
still in flight across the demotion upserts the runtime row afterwards, and that
upsert overwrites metadata wholesale — including the reason just stored. The
local hold refuses the response correctly, but the cleanup that took the revived
row offline again sent no reason, so the server ended up "offline, cause
unknown". Every admission path reads that as "the machine will come back" and
queues, which is exactly the behaviour this change exists to remove. The
demotion record now keeps the structured cause and the revived-row cleanup
re-attaches it per row. The regression test drives the real interleave — a
register held inside the server handler across the verdict — and fails without
the fix.

The repair command was POSIX-only. Windows had just gained detection
(ERROR_BAD_EXE_FORMAT), so a Windows user was correctly refused and then handed
`cd 'C:\...' && node install.cjs`: cmd.exe treats the quotes literally and
PowerShell 5.1 has no `&&`. The command is now rendered for the shell of the
machine that reported it — Set-Location on two lines for PowerShell, with
PowerShell's own quote escaping — and carries that shell so the notice fences it
truthfully instead of labelling everything bash.

Also corrected the notice's own docs: it is written for every author, not only
unattended ones. The chip and toast carry the reason code but not the repair
command, so a human needs the durable copy too. The behaviour was already this;
the comment claimed otherwise.

Co-authored-by: multica-agent <[email protected]>

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Co-authored-by: Bohan-J <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: multica-agent <[email protected]>
2026-08-14 18:56:40 +08:00