"""Session-persistent kernels for REMOTE terminal backends (docker/ssh/modal). Remote backends offer one primitive — ``env.execute(cmd)``, run-to-completion — so the three things the local kernel gets from owning a child are rebuilt: a detached runner (``nohup ... &``, PID recorded, ``kill -0`` probed per cell); a file-based CELL protocol in the kernel dir (``cell_req_NNNNNN.json`` / ``cell_res_NNNNNN.json``), sibling to the unchanged file-based TOOL-RPC protocol (req_/res_) whose host-side ``_rpc_poll_loop`` starts per cell with the calling thread's context (= per-cell tool authority); and death detection — a failed liveness probe reads as *kernel died: state lost* and the next call respawns, never a hung poll (every wait is bounded by the cell timeout). Same invariants as local: owner = approval session key with the ``::child::`` qualifier (one resolver in tools.code_kernel), same generated tool stubs, same output post-processing in the caller. ``reset=true`` kills and respawns. Spawn failure fails OPEN to the per-call path with a note. """ from __future__ import annotations import atexit import json import logging import secrets import shlex import threading import time import uuid from dataclasses import dataclass, field from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple from tools.code_kernel import RUNNER_CELL_SOURCE, KernelRegistry logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) # Host poll interval for a cell result file; each poll is one env.execute round-trip # (0.1-0.4s on ssh/docker), so this is a floor, not a rate. _CELL_POLL_INTERVAL = 0.5 # The remote runner: a forever-loop that polls for cell request files, execs them in one # persistent namespace, writes response files. Pure files + stdlib only (transport-agnostic); # cells and tool-RPC share the kernel dir under distinct prefixes. REMOTE_KERNEL_RUNNER_SOURCE = '''\ """Auto-generated Hermes REMOTE session-kernel runner (file cell protocol).""" import contextlib import io import json import os import sys import time import traceback KDIR = os.environ["HERMES_KERNEL_DIR"] CELLS = os.path.join(KDIR, "cells") _CAPTURE_LIMIT = {capture_limit} IDLE_EXIT_SECONDS = {idle_exit} {cell_source} def main(): execution_count = 0 last_activity = time.time() while True: pending = sorted( f for f in os.listdir(CELLS) if f.startswith("cell_req_") and f.endswith(".json") ) if not pending: if time.time() - last_activity > IDLE_EXIT_SECONDS: return # self-reap: nobody is talking to us anymore time.sleep(0.2) continue for name in pending: req_path = os.path.join(CELLS, name) try: with open(req_path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f: request = json.load(f) except Exception: # Partially-written request (ship in progress): retry next tick. continue os.remove(req_path) last_activity = time.time() execution_count += 1 payload, _ = run_cell(request, execution_count) res_name = name.replace("cell_req_", "cell_res_") tmp = os.path.join(CELLS, res_name + ".tmp") # Cell results carry the executed code's output: owner-only, even if # the process umask is permissive. fd = os.open(tmp, os.O_WRONLY | os.O_CREAT | os.O_TRUNC, 0o600) with os.fdopen(fd, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f: json.dump(payload, f, ensure_ascii=False) os.replace(tmp, os.path.join(CELLS, res_name)) if payload["status"] == "exit": return if __name__ == "__main__": main() ''' def _sh(env, cmd: str, timeout: int = 15) -> str: """Run *cmd* on the remote from ``/`` and return its output text.""" result = env.execute(cmd, cwd="/", timeout=timeout) return (result.get("output", "") if isinstance(result, dict) else "") or "" @dataclass class RemoteKernel: """Host-side record of one detached remote kernel process.""" env: Any env_type: str kernel_dir: str pid: str rpc_token: str owner: str last_used: float = field(default_factory=time.monotonic) execution_count: int = 0 cell_seq: int = 0 # Cells currently running on this kernel. Reap/evict skip attached # kernels: killing one mid-cell tears the runner out from under a live # poll loop (same guard as tools.code_kernel, hermes-agent#101861). attached: int = 0 # Owned by a live delegate_task child: exempt from LRU eviction (the child's teardown disposes it). pinned: bool = False def sh(self, cmd: str, timeout: int = 15) -> str: return _sh(self.env, cmd, timeout) def is_alive(self) -> bool: """Bounded liveness probe: kill -0 through the transport. Any transport failure counts as dead — a dropped ssh connection and a dead runner are indistinguishable from here, and both have the same correct answer (respawn).""" try: return "ALIVE" in self.sh(f"kill -0 {shlex.quote(self.pid)} 2>/dev/null && echo ALIVE") except Exception: return False def kill(self) -> None: """Best-effort kill of the runner and its subprocesses, then rm -rf.""" q_pid = shlex.quote(self.pid) for cmd, failure in ( # Kill the runner's children if the shell gave it a group, then the PID itself. (f"pkill -TERM -P {q_pid} 2>/dev/null; kill {q_pid} 2>/dev/null; true", "remote kernel kill failed (transport?)"), (f"rm -rf {shlex.quote(self.kernel_dir)}", "remote kernel dir cleanup failed"), ): try: self.sh(cmd) except Exception: logger.debug(failure, exc_info=True) def _kernel_key(owner: str, env_type: str, task_env_id: str, sandbox_tools: frozenset) -> Tuple: """The hermes_tools stub module is generated from ``sandbox_tools`` once, at spawn, so a kernel is only reusable by calls with the SAME tool set; a different set gets its own kernel.""" return (owner, "remote", env_type, task_env_id, tuple(sorted(sandbox_tools))) # Registry + lock shared-shape with code_kernel; teardown runs outside the lock. _REGISTRY = KernelRegistry(lambda kernel: kernel.kill()) _REMOTE_KERNELS: Dict[Tuple, RemoteKernel] = _REGISTRY.kernels def shutdown_all_remote_kernels() -> None: _REGISTRY.shutdown() def shutdown_remote_kernels_for_owner(owner: str) -> None: """Session-boundary disposal — wired to the same clear_session hook as local kernels, so /new and session close reap both kinds.""" if owner: _REGISTRY.shutdown(owner) def shutdown_remote_kernels_where(owner_matches: Callable[[str], bool]) -> None: """Dispose every remote kernel whose owner satisfies the predicate (a finished child's kernels).""" _REGISTRY.shutdown(owner_matches=owner_matches) def _reap_unlocked(idle_timeout: int) -> List["RemoteKernel"]: """Pop idle-expired, unattached remote kernels; caller tears them down outside the lock. The runner self-exits after the same idle window, so this clears the HOST-side entry — without it the map grew one entry per never-revisited (owner, env_type, task_env_id) for the gateway's life.""" now = time.monotonic() doomed = [key for key, kernel in _REMOTE_KERNELS.items() if kernel.attached == 0 and now - kernel.last_used > idle_timeout] return [_REMOTE_KERNELS.pop(key) for key in doomed] def _evict_over_cap_unlocked(keep: Tuple) -> List["RemoteKernel"]: """Pop least-recently-used unattached remote kernels beyond the process-wide cap (the same ``max_session_kernels`` bound as local kernels, applied independently to this map).""" from tools.code_kernel import _lifecycle_limits cap, _ = _lifecycle_limits() unpinned = [key for key in _REMOTE_KERNELS if not _REMOTE_KERNELS[key].pinned] if len(unpinned) <= cap: return [] by_age = sorted((key for key in unpinned if key != keep and _REMOTE_KERNELS[key].attached == 0), key=lambda key: _REMOTE_KERNELS[key].last_used) return [_REMOTE_KERNELS.pop(key) for key in by_age[: len(unpinned) - cap]] atexit.register(shutdown_all_remote_kernels) def _spawn_remote_kernel(env, env_type: str, owner: str, task_env_id: str, sandbox_tools: frozenset, *, idle_exit: int) -> Optional[RemoteKernel]: """Start a detached kernel runner on the remote. None on failure (dir removed).""" from tools.code_execution_rpc import _execute_checked, _private_dirs_cmd from tools.code_execution_tool import ( MAX_STDOUT_BYTES, _ship_file_to_remote, _env_temp_dir, _ship_env_file_and_launch, generate_hermes_tools_module, ) kernel_dir = f"{_env_temp_dir(env)}/hermes_rkernel_{uuid.uuid4().hex[:12]}" q_dir = shlex.quote(kernel_dir) kernel = None try: # Private dirs: the kernel dir lives under a shared temp dir and carries # the RPC token (in req files), tool results, and cell code/output. # Fail closed on setup failure rather than ship secrets into a dir that # stayed permissive. _execute_checked(env, _private_dirs_cmd(kernel_dir, f"{kernel_dir}/cells", f"{kernel_dir}/rpc"), "remote kernel dir setup", timeout=15) rpc_token = secrets.token_urlsafe(32) _ship_file_to_remote(env, f"{kernel_dir}/kernel_runner.py", REMOTE_KERNEL_RUNNER_SOURCE.format( cell_source=RUNNER_CELL_SOURCE, capture_limit=MAX_STDOUT_BYTES, idle_exit=idle_exit)) _ship_file_to_remote(env, f"{kernel_dir}/hermes_tools.py", generate_hermes_tools_module(list(sandbox_tools), transport="file")) # kernel.env is removed after sourcing: the runner's env keeps the # values, so the token file need not sit at rest for the kernel's # lifetime. runner.log is pre-created 600 so the launch redirect never # lands at the remote's default umask. The inner `&` stays inside the # subshell where `$!` resolves to the runner pid. launch_cmd = _ship_env_file_and_launch( env, kernel_dir, "kernel.env", "rm -f ./kernel.env && touch runner.log && chmod 600 runner.log && " '{ nohup python3 kernel_runner.py > runner.log 2>&1 & echo "PID:$!"; }', rpc_dir=f"{kernel_dir}/rpc", rpc_token=rpc_token, HERMES_KERNEL_DIR=kernel_dir, PYTHONPATH=kernel_dir) started = _sh(env, launch_cmd, timeout=20) pid = next((line.strip()[4:].strip() for line in started.splitlines() if line.strip().startswith("PID:")), "") if not pid.isdigit(): logger.warning("remote kernel spawn returned no PID: %r", started) else: candidate = RemoteKernel(env=env, env_type=env_type, kernel_dir=kernel_dir, pid=pid, rpc_token=rpc_token, owner=owner) if candidate.is_alive(): kernel = candidate else: # Died instantly (missing python3 was pre-checked by the caller, # so this is unexpected) — surface the runner log. try: logger.warning("remote kernel died at spawn: %s", _sh(env, f"cat {q_dir}/runner.log", timeout=10)[:500]) except Exception: pass except Exception: logger.warning("remote kernel spawn failed", exc_info=True) if kernel is None: try: _sh(env, f"rm -rf {q_dir}") except Exception: pass return kernel def _acquire_remote_kernel(env, env_type: str, owner: str, task_env_id: str, sandbox_tools: frozenset, *, reset: bool, idle_exit: int) -> Tuple[Optional[RemoteKernel], bool, bool, bool]: """Find/respawn the owner's kernel: (kernel|None, reused, state_reset, state_lost); reaps idle-expired entries on the way in.""" key = _kernel_key(owner, env_type, task_env_id, sandbox_tools) state_lost = state_reset = False with _REGISTRY.lock: expired = _reap_unlocked(idle_exit) kernel = _REMOTE_KERNELS.get(key) for doomed in expired: doomed.kill() if kernel is not None and reset: _REGISTRY.discard(key, kernel) kernel, state_reset = None, True if kernel is not None and not kernel.is_alive(): # Transport drop, container restart, self-reaped on idle, OOM — all # the same answer: report the loss, respawn fresh (kill is then only # best-effort dir cleanup; the process is already gone). _REGISTRY.discard(key, kernel) kernel, state_lost = None, True reused = kernel is not None if kernel is None: kernel = _spawn_remote_kernel(env, env_type, owner, task_env_id, sandbox_tools, idle_exit=idle_exit) if kernel is not None: from agent.delegation_context import is_delegated_child_context kernel.pinned = is_delegated_child_context() with _REGISTRY.lock: _REMOTE_KERNELS[key] = kernel return kernel, reused, state_reset, state_lost def _run_remote_cell(kernel: RemoteKernel, code: str, timeout: int) -> Tuple[str, Dict[str, Any]]: """Ship one cell request and poll for its result: (cell status, payload).""" from tools.code_execution_tool import _ship_file_to_remote kernel.cell_seq += 1 seq = f"{kernel.cell_seq:06d}" q_cells, q_res = shlex.quote(f"{kernel.kernel_dir}/cells"), shlex.quote(f"cell_res_{seq}.json") # One round-trip: tmp write + rename publishes the request atomically. _ship_file_to_remote(kernel.env, f"{kernel.kernel_dir}/cells/cell_req_{seq}.json", json.dumps({"id": seq, "code": code}, ensure_ascii=False), atomic=True) deadline = time.monotonic() + timeout while time.monotonic() < deadline: try: body = kernel.sh(f"cat {q_cells}/{q_res} 2>/dev/null", timeout=20).strip() except Exception: # One flaky round-trip is not kernel death; liveness decides. body = "" if body: try: payload = json.loads(body) status = payload.get("status", "error") except ValueError: payload, status = {}, "protocol-error" try: kernel.sh(f"rm -f {q_cells}/{q_res}", timeout=10) except Exception: # Best-effort: the cell already ran, so raising here would send # the caller to its per-call fallback and run the code twice. # A leftover result file is harmless (seq is monotonic). logger.debug("remote kernel: cell result cleanup failed", exc_info=True) return status, payload time.sleep(_CELL_POLL_INTERVAL) return "timeout", {} def execute_in_remote_kernel( code: str, *, env, env_type: str, task_env_id: str, sandbox_tools: frozenset, timeout: int, max_tool_calls: int, reset: bool, idle_exit: int = 1800, ) -> Optional[Dict[str, Any]]: """Run one cell in the owner's remote kernel. Returns the raw cell result dict (caller post-processes output), or ``None`` when no kernel could be spawned (caller falls open to per-call). ``state_lost``/``state_reset``/``reused`` ride in the ``kernel`` sub-dict.""" from tools.code_kernel import _resolve_owner owner = _resolve_owner(task_env_id) kernel, reused, state_reset, state_lost = _acquire_remote_kernel( env, env_type, owner, task_env_id, sandbox_tools, reset=reset, idle_exit=idle_exit) if kernel is None: return None # fail open to per-call key = _kernel_key(owner, env_type, task_env_id, sandbox_tools) kernel.last_used = time.monotonic() with _REGISTRY.lock: kernel.attached += 1 evicted = _evict_over_cap_unlocked(keep=key) for doomed in evicted: doomed.kill() try: return _run_attached_cell(kernel, key, code, env=env, task_env_id=task_env_id, sandbox_tools=sandbox_tools, timeout=timeout, max_tool_calls=max_tool_calls, reused=reused, state_reset=state_reset, state_lost=state_lost) finally: with _REGISTRY.lock: kernel.attached -= 1 kernel.last_used = time.monotonic() def _run_attached_cell(kernel: RemoteKernel, key: Tuple, code: str, *, env, task_env_id: str, sandbox_tools: frozenset, timeout: int, max_tool_calls: int, reused: bool, state_reset: bool, state_lost: bool) -> Dict[str, Any]: from tools.code_execution_tool import _rpc_poll_loop from tools.thread_context import propagate_context_to_thread # Clean stale tool-RPC requests from a previous cell before arming this cell's poll loop, so # a background thread the last cell leaked cannot smuggle a call into this authority window. q_rpc = shlex.quote(kernel.kernel_dir + '/rpc') try: kernel.sh(f"rm -f {q_rpc}/req_* {q_rpc}/res_*", timeout=10) except Exception: pass tool_call_counter, stop_event = [0], threading.Event() # Per-cell RPC thread carrying THIS call's approval/session context — the remote analogue # of CellAuthority: authority lives exactly as long as the cell's poll loop. rpc_thread = threading.Thread( target=propagate_context_to_thread(_rpc_poll_loop), daemon=True, args=(env, f"{kernel.kernel_dir}/rpc", task_env_id, [], tool_call_counter, max_tool_calls, sandbox_tools, stop_event, kernel.rpc_token)) rpc_thread.start() cell_status, cell_payload = "no-result", {} try: cell_status, cell_payload = _run_remote_cell(kernel, code, timeout) except Exception: # The atomic ship is the only remote call here that can raise (the poll # and result cleanup are best-effort), so the request never reached the runner and the # caller's per-call fallback runs the code exactly once. Kill the # kernel as the timeout path does: leaving it registered would let the # next call reuse a kernel whose state silently missed this cell. _REGISTRY.discard(key, kernel) raise finally: stop_event.set() rpc_thread.join(timeout=5) kernel_info: Dict[str, Any] = {"reused": reused, "remote": True} result: Dict[str, Any] = { "status": "error", "stdout": cell_payload.get("stdout", ""), "stderr": cell_payload.get("stderr", ""), "traceback": cell_payload.get("traceback", ""), "tool_calls_made": tool_call_counter[0], "kernel": kernel_info, } if cell_status in ("timeout", "protocol-error", "no-result"): # No safe way to interrupt one cell in place (same contract as local): kill, report, respawn. _REGISTRY.discard(key, kernel) if cell_status == "timeout": result["status"] = "timeout" kernel_info.update(ended=True, state_lost=True, note=( "Cell timed out; the remote session kernel was killed and its state was lost. The next call " "starts a fresh kernel." if cell_status == "timeout" else "Remote kernel protocol failure; kernel killed, state lost.")) return result if cell_status == "exit": _REGISTRY.discard(key, kernel) kernel_info["ended"] = True kernel.execution_count = kernel_info["execution_count"] = int(cell_payload.get("execution_count", 0) or 0) if cell_status in ("ok", "exit"): result["status"] = "success" result["stdout_clipped"] = bool(cell_payload.get("stdout_clipped")) result["stderr_clipped"] = bool(cell_payload.get("stderr_clipped")) if state_reset: kernel_info["state_reset"] = True if state_lost: kernel_info.update(state_lost=True, note=( "The previous remote kernel was gone (transport drop, container " "restart, or idle self-exit); state from earlier calls was lost and a fresh kernel was started.")) if cell_status == "error" and result["traceback"]: result["error"] = result["traceback"].strip().splitlines()[-1] return result # ---- BEGIN PLUGIN-COMPAT (revert-scheduled; see COMPAT_MANIFEST.md) ---- # Names external plugins imported from this module before the Sep 2026 decomposition. # Internal code MUST NOT use these (scripts/check_compat_pointers.py fails CI if it does). # The whole block is removed by reverting the commit that added it. import base64 # noqa: F401,E402 # ---- END PLUGIN-COMPAT ----