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Why

A customer's Hermes agents lost all policy checks after upgrading with npm i -g failproofai && failproofai update. Reproduced on Hermes 0.21.3: the legacy Hermes integration (shell hooks in config.yaml, written by ≤1.0.5) is never run for cron jobs inside the Hermes gateway — each cron fire builds its own hook scope that only discovered plugins join. The native plugin (1.0.6+) is checked in cron, but update never touched Hermes, so upgraded machines stayed on shell hooks until someone ran failproofai config. Nearly all of that customer's Hermes traffic is cron.

This PR also carries two product decisions for 1.0.8: the package ships no policies, Jev checks included, and Jev's log-only mode is called observe.

What changes

1. update migrates Hermes to a linked plugin (like OpenClaw)

  • Each Hermes profile's plugins/failproofai is now a symlink into the npm install's hermes-plugin/ (a marked copy where symlinks are unavailable), so npm upgrades apply with no reinstall — the same way OpenClaw's plugins.load.paths points into the package.
  • failproofai update moves every profile that already uses FailproofAI (shell hooks, copied plugin, or stale link) to the linked plugin, removes only FailproofAI's shell hooks, and prints a per-profile report (migrated / already current / skipped / failed). Profiles without FailproofAI are left alone; a foreign plugin with the same name is never touched.
  • If the running daemon can't serve the plugin (no policyEvaluation), the shell hooks are kept and update exits 1 pointing at failproofai config. It also exits 1 when the daemon swap or a layout migration failed.
  • failproofai config --status reports a profile still on shell hooks as unhealthy: "Hermes cron jobs are not checked".

2. No pack, no Jev checks

  • The 16 semantic checks are no longer compiled in. A machine asks them only after failproofai policies add FailproofAI/jev-policies — whether or not it is Jev-configured or Cloud-connected.
  • With no pack declaring checks, Jev is inert: no request (not even probes), no intent recorded, and every reviewable policy resolves hard. jev status, the dashboard and config --token say "Jev has no checks installed" and name the command.
  • Fix found on the way: a Jev-only pack no longer counts as "a pack is installed" for the enabledPolicies migration shim or policies add <name> (hasInstalledRegexPacks). Before this, adding jev-policies to a machine enforcing builtins from enabledPolicies silently switched them off.

3. Jev's shadow mode is now observe

  • Modes are off | observe | enforce everywhere: CLI, local dashboard, docs, jev.json, jev status --json keys (observeClearsByPolicy, modes.observe), hook-activity rows, the collector (jev_mode: "observe"), and fp guardrails summary.
  • No alias: a jev.json with mode: "shadow" (written by config --token on 1.0.8) is refused like any invalid mode, so Jev is off until failproofai jev setup --provider failproofai.

Validation

  • tsc clean; lint 0 errors.
  • Unit: 7,751 pass. 1 failure (builtin-policies › block-rm-rf allowPaths › rm -rf $HOME) fails identically on main (f0fd0ac).
  • e2e: 333/333. bun run build OK.
  • Live, on a real machine (Hermes 0.21.3): legacy shell hooks + a gateway cron job → 2 runs, 3 tool calls, 0 checks. Then npm i -g <this build> && failproofai update → hermes/default migrated — shell hooks → linked plugin, and the next cron run was checked with no config and no gateway restart. (update exited 1 there only because the v1.0.9-beta.0 daemon isn't released yet — 404 on download.)

Notes for reviewers

  • The Cloud counterpart (FailproofAI Cloud counts and shows observe) is a separate PR in agenteye.
  • Translations and the Jev settings screenshot still show the old wording; English docs are updated.
  • Known risk: while npm swaps the package directory, the Hermes plugin link dangles for a moment; a cron fire in that window runs unchecked.

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Hermes review

Field Value
Status Approved
Reviewed commit 689b58587d5cecf637e8edfed38570fbeeed6292
Policy revision 1d8f31d926828f3bae215c58f5b35baa44acbff0
Model gpt-5.6-terra
Duration 358s
Updated 2026-09-29T14:36:03.001385752+00:00

Summary

No actionable correctness, security, data-safety, compatibility, or operability findings identified.

Changes

  • Migrates existing Hermes integrations to a managed native plugin during update.
  • Makes agent-config writes atomic and protects config/link ownership boundaries.
  • Moves Jev checks to installed policy packs and renames shadow mode to observe.
  • Updates Jev activity, collector output, CLI/dashboard reporting, and documentation.

Validation

  • Skipped docker run --rm -v /review/input/workspace:/work -w /work oven/bun:latest bun run test:run -- __tests__/hooks/safe-config-write.test.ts __tests__/hooks/hermes-update.test.ts — The fresh nested container had no dependency tree (vitest was unavailable). A subsequent isolated clean-install attempt stalled while fetching dependencies, so targeted tests could not run in this harness. (80s)

Findings

None.

Open questions

None.

Policy overrides

None.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • failproofai update migrates existing FailproofAI-enabled Hermes profiles to the native plugin, reports each profile’s status, and flags migration failures.
    • Hermes plugin setup uses a link when possible, with a managed-copy fallback; profiles without FailproofAI remain unchanged.
    • Jev checks come from installed policy packs. Without installed checks, Jev makes no requests and policies requiring review remain hard.
    • Cloud summaries show machine counts for Jev’s observe and enforce modes.
    • Hermes status identifies profiles where legacy shell hooks leave cron jobs unchecked.
    • Configuration updates use atomic writes and retain a backup of the previous file.
  • Updates

    • Jev’s non-enforcing mode is now called observe. Activity reports potential clears separately from enforced clears.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Daemon updates skip unnecessary reinstallation when the running service matches the CLI version.
    • Improved detection of disabled Hermes plugins and prevented migration from changing profiles with unreadable or invalid configuration.

chhhee10 and others added 16 commits September 29, 2026 15:26
…ying it

Hermes has no configurable plugin search path, so the plugin was copied into
<profile>/plugins/failproofai and went stale on every npm upgrade until
someone reran setup. Install now symlinks that path to the package's own
hermes-plugin/ (the OpenClaw plugins.load.paths model), so an upgrade applies
with no reinstall. Hermes' scan_directory uses Path.is_dir(), which follows
the link, and skips a dangling one silently.

Ownership stays strict: only a marked copy (1.0.6-1.0.8 installs) or a link
into a FailproofAI hermes-plugin/ (checked by basename and manifest name) is
ever replaced or removed; an unmarked dir, a file, or a link anywhere else is
refused. A copy is migrated to a link; where a link cannot be created the
install falls back to the marked copy. Uninstall unlinks, never touching the
package directory.

Health gains pluginMode and cronUnchecked: a profile still on legacy
config.yaml shell hooks is reported UNHEALTHY with "Hermes cron jobs are not
checked", since cron fires build their own hook scope that config shell hooks
never join. Adds migrateHermesProfiles(), the per-profile state machine
`update` uses.

The Hermes tests now copy hermes-plugin/ into a temp package root (a test
editing files through the installed plugin would otherwise edit the repo's
plugin via the link) and refuse to run when HOME overrides are not honoured
by os.homedir() (Bun caches it), which would point them at a real ~/.hermes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…en it cannot

`update` never looked at Hermes, so a machine that installed Hermes
enforcement with <=1.0.5 kept its config.yaml shell hooks through every npm
upgrade - and those hooks are never run for Hermes cron jobs, so scheduled
jobs went unchecked while `update` reported success.

After the daemon step, every Hermes profile that already uses FailproofAI
(legacy shell hooks, a copied plugin, or a link) is brought to the linked
plugin: plugin first, then plugins.enabled, then the legacy hooks are removed.
Profiles with no FailproofAI integration are left alone, and a config.yaml
that does not parse is never rewritten. The running daemon is probed for
policyEvaluation (once, only when a profile needs changing); when it cannot
serve the plugin - e.g. a sudo system daemon update could not replace -
nothing is changed, the shell hooks stay, and update exits 1 telling the
user to run `failproofai config`. A per-profile report is printed.

Exit status is now non-zero when the daemon swap failed, a layout migration
failed, or any Hermes profile could not be brought current.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Harness and CLI reference, the plugin README, CLAUDE.md and the 1.0.9-beta.0
changelog now describe the linked install, `update` migrating Hermes profiles
(and exiting non-zero when it cannot), and why legacy shell hooks leave
Hermes cron jobs unchecked. English pages only; translations not updated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Jev's log-only mode is being renamed from "shadow" to "observe". Hook rows
written by an older worker or daemon still say "shadow", and the activity
store is never rewritten, so the collector accepts both and normalizes
"shadow" to "observe" before emitting jev_mode — the Cloud sees a single
spelling per mode.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Jev's log-only mode (asked and logged, regex decides) is now "observe",
the word already used for a policy rollout that is evaluated but not
enforced. Every writer emits "observe": jev.json (CLI setup, config
--token's initial Cloud file, the dashboard actions), hook-activity rows'
jevMode, verdicts.jsonl's applied, and the jev status stats
(observeClearsByPolicy, modes.observe). CLI help, status text, dashboard
panel and the activity pill ("jev observe") say observe.

"shadow" stays a read alias wherever a mode is parsed: normalizeJevMode in
jev-config (so an existing jev.json, a Cloud-written file, --mode shadow,
and the dashboard server actions all accept it), sanitizeJevActivity for
rows an older worker wrote, and the stats renderers for the pre-rename
keys. --mode shadow saves "observe" and prints a one-line note; any save
rewrites an older file's "shadow" as "observe".

Internal names follow: JevMode, ObserveVerdict/observeVerdict,
CLOUD_JEV_INITIAL_MODE. The collector's golden fixtures are regenerated
from the store.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rename shadow mode to observe across the Jev docs (setup, providers,
Cloud route, CLI reference, local dashboard), noting that "shadow" is
still accepted and saved as observe. CHANGELOG entry for the rename and
its compatibility.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Cloud's enforcement summary reports jev.machines.observe (and keeps
jev.machines.shadow as a deprecated duplicate; older servers send only
shadow). `fp guardrails summary` reads observe, falls back to shadow,
never sums them, and prints "observe".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…lugin

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

# Conflicts:
#	CHANGELOG.md
The sixteen semantic checks were compiled into the npm package and used
whenever no installed pack declared any, so configuring Jev (BYOK, or
`config --token` with a Cloud machine key) started asking them without
anyone opting in. They now reach a machine only through
`failproofai policies add FailproofAI/jev-policies`.

- semantic/policies.ts keeps the probes and path/branch helpers; the
  sixteen definitions move to a test fixture (__tests__/fixtures/jev-policies.ts).
- semanticPoliciesFromPacks / resolveSemanticPolicies return an empty set
  with no declaring pack, when every entry is unusable, and when the
  manifest is unreadable. Third-party checks no longer join a built-in set.
- Reviewer names come only from installed packs (effectiveReviewerNames /
  reviewerNamesFor -> NO_REVIEWERS when none); resolvePolicyAuthority and
  withMergedAuthority default to no reviewers, and with none a reviewable
  declaration resolves hard silently (a contest is still reported).
  SEMANTIC_REVIEWER_NAMES stays as the reserved names and the build-time
  vocabulary for the core pack and `publish`.
- handler: no Jev review and no intent capture unless an installed pack
  gives Jev checks (jevChecksInstalled), so a machine without one never
  reaches the network for Jev.
- jev status / dashboard: coverage carries jevChecks; with none, the
  problem line says Jev has no checks installed and names the command.
  `config --token` says the same when it turns Cloud Jev on.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…red machine

A valid BYOK jev.json in enforce mode with no pack declaring checks must
answer the whole unconfigured-equivalence corpus byte-identically to the
recorded golden (outputs and activity rows) and send no request; installing
the FailproofAI/jev-policies stand-in is what makes the same call reach Jev.
Fails on the previous build (activity rows differ; 16 reviewers).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ackage

Say where the checks come from on the Jev setup pages (quick start tab,
Jev policies, Cloud reference, local dashboard), and rewrite the authority
and publish-a-pack pages that described a compiled-in set packs replace or
join. CHANGELOG entry under 1.0.9-beta.0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

# Conflicts:
#	CHANGELOG.md
#	__tests__/hooks/two-tier-handler.test.ts
#	docs/reference/jev-cloud.mdx
#	src/hooks/cloud-connection.ts
FailproofAI/jev-policies carries no regex policies, but hasInstalledPacks()
counted it: installing it switched off a legacy machine's enabledPolicies,
and a later `policies add <name>` tried to enable the name on it instead of
fetching FailproofAI/policies. Both now ask hasInstalledRegexPacks().

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Jev's modes are off | observe | enforce, nothing else. Removes every
read alias for the old name: LEGACY_OBSERVE_MODE and normalizeJevMode
(now parseJevMode, the three modes only), the `--mode shadow` note in
`jev setup`, the dashboard actions' alias, sanitizeJevActivity's row
rewrite, the stats renderers' shadowClearsByPolicy / modes.shadow
fallbacks, the collector's `shadow` jevMode arm, and fp's
jev.machines.shadow fallback — plus the tests, docs and CHANGELOG text
that described them. A jev.json with mode "shadow" is now an invalid
mode like any other: refused, Jev off.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… check

- Six suites mock pack-manifest by listing its exports; they now list
  hasInstalledRegexPacks too (101 failures were that one missing export).
- The jev-policies test helper is no longer named use…, which the
  react-hooks lint rule read as a hook (9 lint errors).
- two-tier-handler's stand-in for FailproofAI/jev-policies now yields to a
  pack a test installs itself, and the half of the pack-attribution test
  that asserted a compiled-in check is unattributed now asserts that a check
  no installed pack declares is never asked.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Cloud counterpart: FailproofAI/agenteye#1043 (counts and shows Jev's observe mode).

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Walkthrough

This pull request changes Jev checks to depend on installed packs and renames its non-enforcing mode to observe. It adds Hermes profile migration to failproofai update, atomic configuration writes, Jev mode counts in the Cloud CLI, and a daemon update no-op for a running version-matched service.

Changes

Jev checks and observe mode

Layer / File(s) Summary
Pack-declared checks and authority
src/hooks/semantic/*, src/hooks/policy-authority.ts, src/hooks/effective-reviewers.ts, src/hooks/pack-*, __tests__/fixtures/jev-policies.ts, __tests__/hooks/pack-*, __tests__/hooks/policy-authority*, docs/policies/*
Jev checks and reviewer names now come from installed pack declarations. Without usable declarations, Jev resolves no checks and policies with reviewable authority resolve as hard.
Reviewability and request gating
src/hooks/handler.ts, src/hooks/policy-reviewability.ts, src/hooks/manager.ts, src/hooks/jev-cli.ts, src/hooks/cloud-connection.ts, __tests__/hooks/two-tier-*, __tests__/hooks/jev-cli-status-reviewable.test.ts, __tests__/actions/jev-reviewability.test.ts
Hook evaluation and intent capture stop when no Jev checks are installed. Reviewability reports check availability and installation guidance. Core-pack selection checks for installed regex-policy packs.
Observe mode and activity reporting
src/hooks/semantic/*, src/hooks/handler.ts, src/hooks/jev-activity.ts, src/hooks/jev-cli.ts, app/*jev*, crates/fpai-collect/src/sources/hooks/*, docs/reference/jev*, docs/start/use-jev.mdx, __tests__/*jev*
Configuration accepts off, observe, and enforce. Runtime results, activity fields, statistics, interfaces, and collector handling use observe-mode terminology. Unknown modes no longer retain cleared-policy names.
Cloud CLI counts
fp-cloud-cli/fp_cli/output.py, fp-cloud-cli/tests/test_output.py, fp-cloud-cli/CHANGELOG.md
The guardrails summary displays observe and enforce machine counts when either count is nonzero.

Hermes plugin migration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Installation, migration, and update reporting
src/hooks/integrations.ts, src/hooks/hermes-update.ts, bin/failproofai.mjs, __tests__/hooks/hermes-update.test.ts, __tests__/hooks/integrations.test.ts, docs/reference/harnesses.mdx, hermes-plugin/README.md, CLAUDE.md
Hermes profiles link to the packaged plugin when possible and use a marked copy as fallback. The update command checks daemon support, migrates eligible profiles, and reports migration status and failures.

Atomic configuration writes

Layer / File(s) Summary
Safe writes and unreadable-config handling
src/hooks/safe-config-write.ts, src/hooks/integrations.ts, __tests__/hooks/safe-config-write.test.ts, __tests__/hooks/harness-extra-paths.test.ts
Configuration writes use atomic replacement and preserve existing permission bits. Unreadable or malformed agent configs raise an error instead of being treated as empty settings.

Daemon update and release metadata

Layer / File(s) Summary
Version-matched daemon refresh
src/hooks/daemon-service.ts, __tests__/hooks/daemon-service.test.ts
Daemon installation is skipped when the service is running, its recorded version matches the CLI, and the matching binary exists.
Beta version and release notes
package.json, Cargo.toml, CHANGELOG.md
Package versions change to 1.0.9-beta.3. The changelog adds release notes for beta.0 through beta.3.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant UpdateCLI
  participant HermesMigration
  participant HermesProfiles
  participant Daemon
  UpdateCLI->>HermesMigration: run profile migration
  HermesMigration->>HermesProfiles: inspect integrated profiles
  HermesMigration->>Daemon: check policyEvaluation support
  HermesMigration->>HermesProfiles: install plugin and update eligible profiles
  HermesMigration-->>UpdateCLI: return migration results and success status
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 86232

Resolve the Hermes opt-out and macOS update failures before merging. A power loss can also leave the previous settings unavailable from the backup.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 86232

Updates can change which checks run and which Hermes profiles have a plugin enabled. The migration includes safeguards, but pack availability, disabled profiles, and some failure paths warrant design review.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: An upgraded installation with Jev configured but no readable pack declaring Jev checks no longer starts Jev review or intent capture. This is an intentional authority change, but pack availability now determines whether that semantic control runs; the rollout evidence does not establish that affected installations receive a pack.
  • Medium · security · inferred: A profile whose only FailproofAI state is an entry in plugins.disabled passes migration eligibility. If daemon capability is available, update installs the plugin, removes the disabled entry, and enables it. Whether that entry represents prior opt-in is unresolved; it can instead be an explicit decision not to activate the plugin.
  • Medium · reliability · observed: On macOS without available elevation, service status can be unknown even for a running, version-matched daemon. That status bypasses the new no-op guard and reaches privileged installation, so an unattended update can fail instead of recognizing an already-current service.
  • Low · reliability · inferred: The new writer flushes replacement configuration before renaming it, but renames a copied backup without first flushing that copy. After a power loss, the live configuration can survive while the intended previous-version recovery copy does not.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The independently affected scope is each updated installation's Jev checks and each eligible Hermes profile's plugin and config state. The inspected filesystem paths operate in local profiles; evidence does not establish a cross-tenant or privilege-escalation path.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — Pack absence or unreadability removes Jev reviewer authority and prevents Jev review from starting. This is a conditional loss of that control, not evidence that regex checks also stop or that an attacker can remove a pack.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Hermes checks package provenance or an ownership record for links and refuses a stable foreign plugin. Migration also blocks changes when the daemon lacks policy evaluation. These checks protect the ordinary path, but ownership is inspected before, rather than atomically with, filesystem replacement.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Atomic replacement limits partial-file corruption, while backup creation and the multi-artifact Hermes migration have narrower recovery guarantees. A concurrent actor would need write access to the relevant profile directory to exploit the ownership check-to-replacement gap; independent attacker access to that directory is not established.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Define whether a disabled-only Hermes entry authorizes re-enablement, and make that decision an explicit migration precondition. For filesystem transitions, consider recovery checks across plugin, record, and config state, and flush backup contents before treating the backup as a durable rollback copy.
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No actionable correctness, security, data-safety, compatibility, or operability findings identified.

What this changes

flowchart LR
    n0UpdateCLI["~ Update CLI"]
    n1Hermesintegration["~ Hermes integration"]
    n2Agentconfigpersistence["+ Agent config persistence"]
    n3Daemonservice["~ Daemon service"]
    n4Policypackregistry["~ Policy pack registry"]
    n5Hookevaluationandauthority["~ Hook evaluation and authority"]
    n6Jevconfigurationandactivity["~ Jev configuration and activity"]
    n7Telemetrycollector["~ Telemetry collector"]
    n0UpdateCLI -- "refreshes daemon" --> n3Daemonservice
    n0UpdateCLI -- "runs profile migration" --> n1Hermesintegration
    n1Hermesintegration -- "writes profile config" --> n2Agentconfigpersistence
    n5Hookevaluationandauthority -- "loads policies and checks" --> n4Policypackregistry
    n4Policypackregistry -- "declares reviewers" --> n5Hookevaluationandauthority
    n5Hookevaluationandauthority -- "gates and records reviews" --> n6Jevconfigurationandactivity
    n6Jevconfigurationandactivity -- "emits Jev activity" --> n7Telemetrycollector
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0 86232f2a6786 6d9da74d8bee 5a34c87a85b5 53fc1261dbe7 ff959594d7dc f7a58b67acc2 c4ee567ac4f1 02ea9f16b676 ecb62e6e80b0 a8f44a67a1a7 ca375f42a950 24877c075154 75bd5d509ec6 c14f6dfa0c9d c360f18b3dcf 92056439a384 af9e8563c111 8aaa98a894bc ddee8b8b9391 dda3d0df8573 e3f2abf2c635 3794e4696da2 42d23c59a2c4 6e4e2d5b9047 af95edbc7a22 86232f2a6786 Approved
0 689b58587d5c 689b58587d5c Approved

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Hermes found blocking issues that should be addressed.

Review coverage was incomplete, but the concrete blocking findings below are sufficient to request changes.

High: Bundled CLI resolves the Hermes plugin outside its npm package

  • Rule: COR-001
  • Location: src/hooks/integrations.ts:1425
  • Evidence: getHermesPluginSourcePath() resolves three parents from fileURLToPath(import.meta.url) at src/hooks/integrations.ts:1425. That works from src/hooks/integrations.ts, but the shipped CLI is dist/cli.mjs; three parents from that path point to the package's parent (.../node_modules/hermes-plugin), not .../failproofai/hermes-plugin. The new update migration calls installHermesPlugin, which then rejects the missing plugin asset and leaves legacy shell hooks in place, so Hermes cron jobs remain unchecked.
  • Required change: Resolve the package root in a way that supports the bundled dist/cli.mjs layout (or inject it at build time), and add an npm-pack integration test without FAILPROOFAI_PACKAGE_ROOT that verifies update links to the packaged hermes-plugin assets.
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  • Medium/High Existing shadow activity is misclassified as enforced activity — sanitizeJevActivity now drops every mode other than observe or enforce at src/hooks/jev-activity.ts:239. It is also used when reading existing rows for the dashboard and Jev stats. Consequently, a persisted pre-upgrade {jevMode:"shadow", jevCleared:[...]} row loses its mode; computeJevStats then places its clears in clearsByPolicy rather than observeClearsByPolicy. The collector similarly discards shadow at crates/fpai-collect/src/sources/hooks/transform.rs:414. (src/hooks/jev-activity.ts:239)
  • Medium/High Jev-only packs make status hide still-enforced legacy policies — The runtime correctly uses hasInstalledRegexPacks() before retiring the enabledPolicies migration shim (src/hooks/handler.ts:573). In contrast, surveyReviewableCoverage() still uses hasInstalledPacks() at src/hooks/policy-reviewability.ts:170, then suppresses all legacy enabled policies at line 197. A machine with only FailproofAI/jev-policies therefore continues enforcing its legacy builtins but jev status and the dashboard report coverage as though those policies were absent. (src/hooks/policy-reviewability.ts:170)

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🟠 Major · Change the migration-shim check from hasInstalledPacks() to… · policy-reviewability.ts:170

src/hooks/policy-reviewability.ts:170
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Change the migration-shim check from hasInstalledPacks() to hasInstalledRegexPacks(), as handler.ts now does.

The comment at Line 195 says the survey applies the migration shim "exactly as handler.ts applies it". That statement is no longer true. handler.ts Line 573 now keeps the shim active unless a pack that carries regex policies is installed. surveyReviewableCoverage still turns the shim off for any installed pack.

Trigger: an upgraded machine has enabledPolicies, has no core pack, and runs failproofai policies add FailproofAI/jev-policies. This is the recommended way to get Jev checks, and it is the case this PR fixes.

  • Hook path: the builtins from enabledPolicies register, and the fifteen reviewable builtins resolve to reviewable against the sixteen installed checks.
  • Survey path: packsInstalled is true, so legacyEnabled is empty and only the always-on guard is counted. The result is { enabled: 1, reviewable: 0, jevChecks: 16 }.
  • reviewableProblem then returns the "can never clear one … re-take the pack" message.

Consequence: jev status, jev status --json and the dashboard give a wrong count. They also send the user to the wrong command for a policy set that Jev can already clear.

Also add a test to policy-reviewability.test.ts for this case: installPack(null) with withJev = true, plus a non-empty enabledPolicies.

🐛 Proposed fix
-    packsInstalled = hasInstalledPacks();
+    // The same question `handler.ts` asks: a Jev-only pack retires no builtin.
+    packsInstalled = hasInstalledRegexPacks();

Import hasInstalledRegexPacks from ./pack-manifest.

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Review comment at @src/hooks/policy-reviewability.ts at line 170:
Update the migration-shim check in `surveyReviewableCoverage` to use
`hasInstalledRegexPacks` from `./pack-manifest` instead of `hasInstalledPacks`,
matching the shim behavior in `handler.ts`. Add a `policy-reviewability.test.ts`
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- Around line 1599-1607: Update the linked-destination branch around renameSync
so a failed direct rename falls through to the existing backup-swap path instead
of deleting the temporary entry and throwing; retain the immediate "linked"
return when the rename succeeds.

Review comments at @src/hooks/semantic/jev-stats.ts:
- Line 200: Update sanitizeJevActivity to normalize persisted activity rows with
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configuration schema unchanged, and preserve the normalized mode through
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… plugin path

- policy-reviewability: the coverage survey retires the enabledPolicies shim
  only when a pack with regex policies is installed, as handler.ts does; a
  Jev-only pack no longer makes jev status and the dashboard under-count.
- jev-activity: a row whose Jev mode is unknown (e.g. a pre-rename "shadow")
  drops its clears instead of having them counted as enforce-mode clears.
- integrations: without FAILPROOFAI_PACKAGE_ROOT, find hermes-plugin/ by
  walking up to its plugin.yaml (three fixed parents overshoot from dist/);
  a failed junction-over-junction rename on Windows falls back to the
  move-aside swap.

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Hermes found blocking issues that should be addressed.

High: Hermes migration can irrecoverably corrupt config.yaml

  • Rule: DATA-001
  • Location: src/hooks/integrations.ts:91
  • Evidence: The new update migration removes legacy hooks in memory and then calls writeYamlDoc() at src/hooks/integrations.ts:1843-1845. writeYamlDoc() uses direct writeFileSync() at line 93, which truncates the live config rather than atomically replacing it. An interruption after truncation can leave a partial or invalid config; a later update then detects parse errors and refuses to repair it, leaving the user to reconstruct their Hermes configuration and potentially without enforcement.
  • Required change: Write the rendered YAML to a uniquely named temporary file in the config directory, fsync it, and atomically rename it into place. Preserve a recoverable prior copy or restore it on failure, and add an interruption/retry test.
1 advisory finding
  • Medium/High Collector still exports legacy shadow clears as effective clears — JevFacts::of drops an unrecognized mode such as legacy shadow at crates/fpai-collect/src/sources/hooks/transform.rs:411-415, but unconditionally retains jevCleared at lines 422-430. That nonempty clear makes the row notable (lines 478-482) and apply_detail exports jev_cleared (lines 496-499), now without a mode to distinguish it from an enforce-mode clear. The TypeScript normalizer explicitly drops clears for this case, but collector reads historical JSONL directly and bypasses it. (crates/fpai-collect/src/sources/hooks/transform.rs:411)

…d `update` make

Adds a harness path for two agents, then runs the writes a Cloud connect,
collector settings, a daemon install, a second `config` run, a daemon
uninstall and a disconnect make, and asserts `collector.sources` is
unchanged. Every writer goes through updateConfig's raw merge; this pins it
for the upgrade path.

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I could not establish complete review coverage for ddee8b8b9391, so I did not approve it. I have no specific question to ask — this is a coverage gap on my side, not a request for input.

What the review did establish:

The Hermes migration has two enforcement-state/ownership gaps. Runtime tests could not run in the isolated container because dependencies were unavailable offline.

Re-run with @hermes-exosphere review [focus] to point me at the part that matters most, or @hermes-exosphere reconsider [reason] if you believe the coverage was sufficient.

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🟡 Minor · Use trusted provenance for Hermes plugin links. · integrations.ts:1475-1530

src/hooks/integrations.ts:1475-1530
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Use trusted provenance for Hermes plugin links.

A symlink to an operator-owned hermes-plugin directory can contain name: failproofai. The current classifier accepts it, reports a managed link, and installHermesPlugin replaces the link instead of refusing the unmanaged plugin. Validate trusted package ownership, not only the basename and manifest, while preserving stale-link handling.

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Update isFailproofaiHermesPluginSource and its use in hermesPluginState to
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…t parse

Addresses DATA-001 on #868. Every integration wrote the user's agent config
with an in-place writeFileSync, so an interruption left a truncated config
(for Hermes: a gateway that will not start), and readYamlDoc read an existing
file that does not parse as an EMPTY document, so the next install would have
replaced every other setting in it.

- safe-config-write.ts: temp file in the same directory, fsync, copy the
  previous version to <name>.failproofai-backup, atomic rename, fsync the
  directory. Keeps permission bits (Hermes config.yaml is 0600) and writes
  through a symlinked config. Any failure before the rename leaves the live
  file untouched and removes the temp file.
- writeJsonFile / writeYamlDoc / the OpenCode shim use it.
- readJsonFile / readYamlDoc throw UnreadableAgentConfigError for a file
  that exists but cannot be read or parsed; status surfaces use a
  non-throwing inspect and report "does not parse" for Hermes.
- update's Hermes migration reports a broken config.yaml it manages as
  failed (left untouched) and leaves one it never managed alone.
- collector: a row whose Jev mode is unknown ships no clears (advisory).

Tests: interruption, retry after a stale temp file, backup, permissions,
symlink, refusal for YAML and JSON, and the migration cases.

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DATA-001 + collector advisory — fixed in dda3d0d.

  • Crash-safe writes for every agent config (src/hooks/safe-config-write.ts): temp file in the same directory → fsync → copy the previous version to <name>.failproofai-backup → atomic rename → fsync the directory. Permission bits are kept (Hermes config.yaml is 0600) and a symlinked config is written through to its target. Any failure before the rename leaves the live file untouched and deletes the temp file. writeJsonFile, writeYamlDoc and the OpenCode shim all use it, so this covers Hermes, Claude Code, OpenClaw and every other integration, not only the migration.
  • A config that does not parse is never rewritten. readYamlDoc used to read an unparseable file as an empty document, so the next install would have replaced every other setting in it. readYamlDoc/readJsonFile now throw UnreadableAgentConfigError (file + reason, file left byte-for-byte); status uses a non-throwing inspect and shows UNHEALTHY — <path> does not parse. update reports a broken config it manages as failed/untouched and leaves one it never managed alone.
  • Tests (safe-config-write.test.ts, hermes-update.test.ts): interruption before the swap, retry after a stale temp file from a killed process, backup contents, 0600 preserved, symlink write-through, refusal for bad YAML and bad JSON, and both migration cases.
  • Collector advisory: JevFacts::of now drops jev_cleared when the row's mode is unknown, matching the TypeScript normalizer; new a_row_with_an_unknown_mode_ships_no_clears test.

Local: tsc clean, lint 0 errors, unit 7769 pass (1 pre-existing builtin-policies failure also on main), e2e 333/333, cargo test -p fpai-collect Jev suites green, clippy 1.98 clean.

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Hermes found blocking issues that should be addressed.

High: Disabled Hermes plugins are reported healthy and skipped by update

  • Rule: SEC-001
  • Location: src/hooks/integrations.ts:1772
  • Evidence: hermesConfigState sets pluginEnabled solely from plugins.enabled at src/hooks/integrations.ts:1772, although the migration writer explicitly removes failproofai from plugins.disabled before enabling it. That state is used by the already-current branch at line 1874 and health calculation at lines 1969-1980. A container probe created a current plugin with both enabled: [failproofai] and disabled: [failproofai]; hermesProfileHealth() returned healthy: true, so update would report it current without repairing the disabling entry.
  • Required change: Treat plugins.disabled containing failproofai as not enabled in the shared config-state helper, so health, installed detection, and the migration current check all require that it is enabled and not disabled. Add a regression test covering a linked plugin with both lists populated.
1 advisory finding
  • High/High A same-named operator plugin link is claimed as FailproofAI-managed — isFailproofaiHermesPluginSource accepts any readable target whose basename is hermes-plugin and whose plugin.yaml contains name: failproofai (src/hooks/integrations.ts:1526-1531). installHermesPlugin then treats that link as owned and replaces it. A container probe created /tmp/operator/hermes-plugin with that manifest and the required files, linked a Hermes profile's plugins/failproofai to it, and installHermesPlugin returned linked instead of refusing the foreign link. (src/hooks/integrations.ts:1526)

…001)

Hermes gates plugins.disabled before plugins.enabled, so a profile listing
failproofai in both never loads it. hermesConfigState read only
plugins.enabled, so health reported it healthy, installed detection said
installed, and update skipped it as "already current" without removing the
disabling entry. The shared helper now requires listed AND not disabled;
status names the disabled state; update treats either listing as ours and
repairs it (enableHermesPluginInDoc already drops the disabled entry).

Regression test: a linked plugin with both lists populated is unhealthy,
not installed, not current, and healthy after update.

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SEC-001 — fixed in 42d23c5.

hermesConfigState now reports the plugin as enabled only when it is listed in plugins.enabled and not in plugins.disabled, matching Hermes' own gate order (hermes_cli/plugins_discovery.py gate_manifest checks disabled first). Health, hooksInstalledInSettings and the migration's "already current" check all read that one value, so a linked plugin in both lists is now unhealthy, not installed, and not current. config --status says plugin disabled (listed in plugins.disabled), and update treats a listing in either list as ours and repairs it (enableHermesPluginInDoc already drops the disabling entry).

Regression test (hermes-update.test.ts): a linked plugin with both lists populated → healthy: false, pluginDisabled: true, not installed; update does not report it current, removes the disabled entry, and the profile is healthy afterwards. Full unit suite green apart from the pre-existing builtin-policies failure that also fails on main.

1.0.9-beta.1 is published from 3794e46, before the SEC-001 fix; move that
fix to its own section and open the next beta so the branch can be
released again.

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Hermes found blocking issues that should be addressed.

High: A same-named foreign Hermes plugin link is treated as managed

  • Rule: COR-001
  • Location: src/hooks/integrations.ts:1526
  • Evidence: isFailproofaiHermesPluginSource() at src/hooks/integrations.ts:1526 accepts any readable target named hermes-plugin whose plugin.yaml says name: failproofai. hermesPluginState() therefore classifies an operator-owned link as link, and installHermesPlugin() replaces every non-current link at lines 1631-1705. A foreign plugin can meet those two public naming conditions, contrary to the migration’s stated rule that foreign same-name plugins are never touched.
  • Required change: Persist an ownership marker outside the linked directory when creating a managed link and replace only marked links. Treat unmarked links as foreign, including links with a matching directory and manifest name; retain any required stale-link migration through explicit, verifiable provenance.
3 advisory findings
  • High/High Backup creation follows an attacker-controlled symlink — writeConfigFileAtomic() calls copyFileSync(target, ${target}.failproofai-backup) at src/hooks/safe-config-write.ts:92 without inspecting the existing backup path. Project-scoped Claude settings are written under <cwd>/.claude/settings.json, so a repository can pre-create .claude/settings.json.failproofai-backup as a symlink to any file writable by the developer. A container probe created that link and showed a normal config write changed the linked victim from unchanged to the prior config contents (old). (src/hooks/safe-config-write.ts:92)
  • Medium/High A dangling config symlink is replaced instead of written through — resolveWriteTarget() returns the original symlink pathname when realpathSync() fails at lines 58-64. For a dangling config symlink, the later rename at line 94 replaces that link with a regular file. A container probe confirmed linkPreserved: false and that the intended dotfiles target remained absent after a write. (src/hooks/safe-config-write.ts:60)
  • Medium/High A transient Hermes config read error aborts migration of remaining profiles — After hermesConfigState() has already parsed the profile, migrateHermesProfiles() performs another unguarded readFileSync() and YAML parse at lines 1905-1916. If the config is removed or becomes unreadable between existsSync() and readFileSync(), the exception escapes the loop rather than producing a failed result for that profile, so later profiles are not processed and the promised per-profile report is lost. (src/hooks/integrations.ts:1905)

Round 4 of 5. If the next review still finds something blocking, I will summarize what is left, withdraw this change request, and stop reviewing this pull request until someone asks me to start again.

Still open:

  • F8 Backup creation follows an attacker-controlled symlink (src/hooks/safe-config-write.ts) — noticed at round 4, on code that had not changed since the round before, so it never blocked
  • F9 A same-named foreign Hermes plugin link is treated as managed (src/hooks/integrations.ts) — open since round 4
  • F10 A dangling config symlink is replaced instead of written through (src/hooks/safe-config-write.ts) — noticed at round 4, on code that had not changed since the round before, so it never blocked
  • F11 A transient Hermes config read error aborts migration of remaining profiles (src/hooks/integrations.ts) — open since round 4

If one of these is not worth fixing, @hermes-exosphere dismiss <id> [reason] waives it for the rest of this pull request and gives the review another round.

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refreshDaemonToCliVersion reinstalled the service on every `update`. The
install is idempotent but needs root, so after the daemon was brought
current, an interactive update asked for a sudo password for nothing and a
non-interactive one failed "root privileges are required" and exited 1 on a
healthy machine. Now, when the service is running and VERSION.daemon equals
this CLI's version with that binary on disk, it reports the daemon current
and asks nothing. Verified live: exit 0, Hermes profiles "already current".

Also bumps to 1.0.9-beta.3 (1.0.9-beta.2 is published from 6e4e2d5).

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I have spent 5 rounds of review on this pull request and I am still finding things to block on. At that point I am no longer the useful reviewer here, so I am standing down and leaving the decision to a person.

I have withdrawn my change request, so I am no longer blocking this pull request. I have also stopped reviewing new commits on it.

What I last reviewed: af95edbc7a22.

Still open:

  • F8 Backup creation follows an attacker-controlled symlink (src/hooks/safe-config-write.ts) — noticed at round 4, on code that had not changed since the round before, so it never blocked

  • F9 A same-named foreign Hermes plugin link is treated as managed (src/hooks/integrations.ts) — open since round 4

  • F10 A dangling config symlink is replaced instead of written through (src/hooks/safe-config-write.ts) — noticed at round 4, on code that had not changed since the round before, so it never blocked

  • F11 A transient config read error aborts all remaining Hermes migrations (src/hooks/integrations.ts) — open since round 4

  • @hermes-exosphere dismiss <id> [reason] waives one of these for the rest of this pull request and starts me again.

  • @hermes-exosphere review [focus] starts over from a clean slate, with the waivers kept.

  • @hermes-exosphere reconsider [reason] asks for one more decision on what is here now.

None of this is a judgement that the findings above are wrong. It is a judgement that another round of me is not what will settle them.

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hermes-exosphere dismissed stale reviews from themself September 29, 2026 13:58

Hermes spent 5 rounds on this pull request without converging and has stood down. This change request is stale and should not block the merge.

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…, plugin ownership, per-profile isolation)

- F8 safe-config-write: the backup is copied to an exclusively created temp
  file and renamed over <name>.failproofai-backup, so a symlink planted there
  is replaced, never followed (probe: victim file stays unchanged).
- F10: a config that is a dangling symlink is refused (DanglingConfigSymlinkError)
  instead of being replaced by a regular file. New `symlinks: "replace"` mode
  for files failproofai generates without reading (OpenCode shim, link record):
  a planted link is swapped out, its target never written.
- F9: a Hermes plugin link is failproofai's only when it matches the ownership
  record written beside it (plugins/.failproofai-link) or points into an npm
  `failproofai` package (verified via its package.json) — the 1.0.9-beta
  links are adopted and recorded. A look-alike `hermes-plugin` with a
  `name: failproofai` manifest is foreign: never replaced, and status says so.
- F11: each profile is migrated in its own try/catch and the redundant second
  read/parse of config.yaml is removed, so one profile's error is its failed
  line, not the end of the report.
- update labels a re-enabled plugin "plugin re-enabled (was listed in
  plugins.disabled)".

Verified on a real machine: beta links adopted + recorded, configs byte-identical,
look-alike plugin untouched, planted backup link replaced with victim intact,
live Hermes tool calls checked in Cloud.

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F8–F11 — all fixed in 86232f2, each with a regression test, and verified on a real machine with the packed tarball.

  • F8 (backup follows a planted symlink): the previous version is copied to an exclusively created temp file (COPYFILE_EXCL) and renamed over <name>.failproofai-backup — a rename replaces a symlink, it never follows one. Your probe, reproduced through the real CLI (policies --install --scope project in a project whose .claude/settings.json.failproofai-backup links to a victim): victim stays unchanged, the link becomes a real backup of the old settings. Test: safe-config-write.test.ts › F8.
  • F10 (dangling config symlink replaced): refused with DanglingConfigSymlinkError — the link is kept and nothing is created at its target (a project-scoped link target is repo-controlled, so creating it is not safe either). Class follow-up: files failproofai generates without reading them first (the OpenCode shim, the new Hermes link record) now use symlinks: "replace", so a planted link there is swapped out and its target never written. Tests: F10 + symlinks: replace.
  • F9 (same-named foreign plugin treated as managed): a link is ours only if it matches the ownership record written outside the linked directory (<profile>/plugins/.failproofai-link, created on every link we make), or has verifiable provenance — it is this package's hermes-plugin/, or …/node_modules/failproofai/hermes-plugin whose package.json names failproofai (this adopts and records the 1.0.9-beta links). Directory name and manifest name: no longer count. A look-alike is foreign: never replaced, update reports it failed, config --status says another plugin occupies the name. An unrecorded dangling link is foreign too (nothing can prove it). Tests cover look-alike, recorded dangling relink, unrecorded dangling refusal, beta adoption, current-link recording, uninstall removing the record.
  • F11 (one profile aborts the rest): the redundant second read/parse of config.yaml is removed (the config-state result already covers unparseable files), and each profile runs in its own try/catch, so an error is that profile's failed line and later profiles still migrate. Test: a profile whose plugins/ is a file fails while the next profile migrates.

Local: tsc clean, lint 0 errors, unit 7782 pass (1 pre-existing builtin-policies failure also on main), e2e 333/333.

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@hermes-exosphere review F8–F11 fixes (safe-config-write.ts backup/symlink handling, Hermes plugin link ownership in integrations.ts, per-profile migration isolation)

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Hermes found no blocking issues in this revision.

Renames the unreleased 1.0.9-beta.3 heading to `## 1.0.9 — 2026-09-29` and
gives it a lead, as #840 did for 1.0.7: release-announcement.mjs merges
`## 1.0.9` with the published `## 1.0.9-beta.*` sections, so those stay as
they are. The lead puts the one action existing Jev users must take (shadow
is refused; re-run `jev setup`) before Discord's truncation point. Adds the
13 dependency bumps merged from main (#853–#865), which had no entry.

Version files stay at 1.0.9-beta.3, as v1.0.7 and v1.0.8 were tagged: the
release tag sets the npm version and the daemon check matches the base.

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Hermes found no blocking issues in this revision.

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