* fix(transparent-stream): stop compact worklog from hijacking transparent live render (#5942, #5943)
Transparent Stream turns with tool calls alternated between the grouped compact
worklog summary ("Processed Ns") and the individual per-event row list (#5942), and
rebuilt every live row element each tick causing flicker (#5943, regression of #5367).
Root cause (bisected to the #5739 merge as a MERGE INTERACTION; #5700/#5739 timestamp
code is NOT causal): #5746 (final-answer-only mode) reworked renderLiveAnchorActivityScene
so a caller-supplied `requestedMode` (opts.mode) OVERRODE the user's active display mode.
Several live callers (appendLiveToolCard, ensureLiveWorklogShell, appendLiveCompressionCard,
appendLiveThinking, session restore in sessions.js) hardcode {mode:'compact_worklog'}.
Before #5746 the dispatch checked isTransparentStream() FIRST and ignored that hint; after,
those callers forced the compact grouped render onto a transparent turn. The compact pass
deletes the keyed transparent rows, so the next transparent tick's preserveByKey reuse
(the #5367 element-reuse fix) misses -> it rebuilds a grouped frame then tears it down and
recreates every row = alternating + flicker.
Fix (two layers, defence in depth):
1. renderLiveAnchorActivityScene: the USER's active chatActivityMode() is authoritative;
opts.mode is only a fallback when there is no usable active mode. A compact_worklog hint
can no longer override an active transparent_stream (restores the good-build precedence).
2. Removed the now-dead hardcoded {mode:'compact_worklog'} argument from all 8 current-view
live/restore call sites (ui.js x5, sessions.js x3) so intent is explicit and the helpers
resolve the active mode via chatActivityMode().
Compact_worklog folding, hide_all_activity suppression, the #5700/#5739 timestamp feature,
and #5860 lazy settled-worklog materialization are all unaffected.
Verified with the crown-jewel stream regression gate (private workspace): transparent_stream
goes rowElementSwaps 1105->0 and groupedFramesInTransparent 42->0; hide_all_activity clean.
Independently root-caused + fix-shape-confirmed by Codex adversarial review.
* fix(transparent-stream): also make projection mode active-authoritative in _renderLiveAnchorActivitySceneForStream (Fable advisory — kill latent requestedMode-wins drift)
* test(#5942/#5943): update brittle source-string assertions for removed {mode:'compact_worklog'} arg
test_live_to_final_anchor_visible_order.py asserted the literal presence of the now-removed
hardcoded compact-mode arg (in ensureLiveWorklogShell + the sessions.js restore path). The fix
correctly drops that arg so the helpers resolve the active display mode. Updated both to assert
the mode-free call / active-mode behavior instead of the removed literal. 63/63 in-file pass.
* revert wrapper projection-mode change (preserve #3820 explicit-mode contract)
The follow-up 8f654f0c0 made _renderLiveAnchorActivitySceneForStream projection-mode
active-authoritative, but that broke the #3820 contract (test_issue3820: explicit hide_all
honored when active=compact; hide_all-active always wins). Fable flagged this only as an
advisory/latent cleanup, NOT required — the real fix is the central renderLiveAnchorActivityScene
dispatch + call-site arg removal, both proven by the gate. Reverting the wrapper restores #3820
(109/109 targeted tests pass) with the bug fix fully intact.
* test(#1426): make OpenRouter live-fetch test hermetic by mocking curated fetch
test_openrouter_group_uses_live_fetch_when_available failed deterministically
in any environment where the hermes_cli agent package is installed AND the
network is reachable, e.g.:
pytest "tests/test_issue1426_openrouter_free_tier_live_fetch.py::\
test_openrouter_group_uses_live_fetch_when_available" -p no:xdist
assert 'minimax/minimax-m2.5:free' in
['anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6', 'anthropic/claude-fable-5', ...]
Root cause — a gap in the test's mock, not a production regression:
get_available_models() populates the OpenRouter group from TWO live fetches:
(1) hermes_cli.models.fetch_openrouter_models() — the curated catalog.
This routes through hermes_cli's open_credentialed_url(), which builds
its own opener and calls .open(); it does NOT go through the
module-level urllib.request.urlopen symbol the test monkeypatches.
(2) a direct urllib.request.urlopen(".../v1/models") free-tier augment —
this one IS intercepted by the monkeypatch.
The test only patched urllib.request.urlopen, so fetch (1) hit the real
network and returned ~36 live curated models. Those filled the visible picker
cap (15), pushing the mocked free-tier entries (minimax/minimax-m2.5:free,
openrouter/elephant-alpha) into the group's extra_models bucket. The
assertion only inspected the visible `models` bucket, so it failed. In CI
(hermes_cli absent) fetch (1) raised ImportError, the curated base was empty,
the 2-3 mocked entries fit the visible cap, and the test passed — hence the
environment-dependent failure.
Production is correct: free-tier models DO surface in the picker (verified
they land in extra_models). The fix keeps the coverage intent intact:
- Mock fetch (1) too (as sibling tests already do) so the test is genuinely
hermetic — matching this module's docstring promise of "without depending
on real network access" — with a small curated base so live data, not the
fallback list, is exercised.
- Assert the free-tier IDs surface across BOTH picker surfaces (`models` +
`extra_models`), matching the sibling fail-closed and cap tests, so a
large curated base overflowing the visible cap no longer flips the result.
No production code changed.
* Release exp-v0.52.39: transparent-stream mode-precedence fix (#5946/#5942/#5943) + hermetic OpenRouter live-fetch test (#5947/#1426)
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Co-authored-by: nesquena-hermes <agent@nesquena-hermes>
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