Two findings from the round-1 maintainer review were not addressed
in round-2: the helper clamped an out-of-range value *up* to the
ceiling, and the env var was exposed to per-profile ``.env``
overrides, which contradicts the "process-wide resource limit"
intent and creates a first-load-wins asymmetry across profile
switches. This round fixes both.
``_read_max_session_resolve_concurrent()`` previously treated
out-of-range values like ``HERMES_WEBUI_MAX_SESSION_RESOLVE=999999``
as "the operator wants the maximum" and returned ``64`` — admitting
64 simultaneous unbounded transcript loads. The round-1 reviewer
measured ~9.6 MB per parse on a synthetic 4.27 MB transcript, so the
old ceiling permitted ~614 MB at 64-way concurrency before any
other application memory.
The cap is a *safety bound*, not a user preference. A typo must
fall back to the safe default, never to the permissive extreme —
matching the behavior of every other bad input in this helper
(missing/empty/zero/negative/non-numeric all already fall back to
2). The 64 ceiling is reachable only via an explicit in-range
operator value.
server-wide key, not a per-profile .env override (SILENT)
The cap controls a single process-wide ``BoundedSemaphore`` that
gates full-transcript resolves. A profile's ``.env`` is per-profile
by design; letting it set a server-wide limit lets a single
profile drag the rest into a tighter or looser posture than the
operator intended, with a first-load-wins asymmetry (a later
profile switch cannot resize the already-constructed semaphore).
The same shape as the isolated-profile key added in #4589: only
the operator/launcher env at startup can set it. The cap is added
to both ``_PROTECTED_ENV_KEYS`` (blocks the profile env at the
load step) and ``_BLOCKED_RUNTIME_ENV_KEYS`` (filters the profile
env in the runtime/gateway-parity path), so a profile cannot
inject the env var at any layer.
1. ``api/models.py`` — ``_read_max_session_resolve_concurrent()``:
- ``if n > 64: return 64`` → ``if n > 64: return 2``
- Docstring updated to spell out the "safety bound, not a user
preference" rule and to point at ``_PROTECTED_ENV_KEYS`` as
the place the 64 ceiling is enforced for profile env.
2. ``api/profiles.py`` — two frozensets:
- ``_PROTECTED_ENV_KEYS`` adds
``'HERMES_WEBUI_MAX_SESSION_RESOLVE'`` (next to
``'HERMES_WEBUI_ISOLATED_PROFILE'``).
- ``_BLOCKED_RUNTIME_ENV_KEYS`` adds the same key, with a
comment explaining the first-load-wins asymmetry.
3. ``tests/test_issue7421_resolve_cap_config.py``:
- The round-1 ``test_env_above_upper_bound_is_clamped_to_64``
is renamed to ``test_env_above_upper_bound_falls_back_to_default``
and the assertion + docstring reflect the new fallback
contract. The maintainer's review said explicitly:
"Update the clamp test accordingly."
- Three new tests pin Finding 2:
- ``test_protected_env_keys_includes_resolve_cap``
- ``test_blocked_runtime_env_keys_includes_resolve_cap``
- ``test_filter_runtime_env_strips_resolve_cap`` (end-to-end
exercise: a profile env containing the cap is filtered out
of the gateway-parity view, and an unrelated, non-blocked
key like ``LANG`` still passes through as a sanity check)
- ``tests/test_issue7421_resolve_cap_config.py``: 15/15 pass.
- ``-k "profile or protect or isolated or HERMES_WEBUI_ISOLATED"``:
866 passed, 5 skipped, 1 xfailed, 2 xpassed — no regression.
- The 5 ruff findings on the worktree are all pre-existing
(3× F401 ``sqlite3`` + 2× B904 ``raise-with-from`` in
``api/profiles.py``); the curated gate is gated on
newly-introduced findings only.
Two. Both are the explicit fixes the maintainer requested.
- ``_read_max_session_resolve_concurrent(999999)`` now returns
``2`` instead of ``64``. The 64 ceiling is still reachable
via an explicit in-range operator value.
- ``HERMES_WEBUI_MAX_SESSION_RESOLVE`` set in a profile's
``.env`` is now ignored: the operator/launcher env at
startup is the only place the cap is configurable.
Both changes are backward compatible at the operator level
(an explicit ``=8`` still returns ``8``) and break the
"typo → ceiling" failure mode and the
"first-loaded-profile-wins" asymmetry the maintainer flagged.
- An operator who set ``HERMES_WEBUI_MAX_SESSION_RESOLVE=64``
in their deployment env is unaffected (still returns 64,
as before).
- An operator who set ``HERMES_WEBUI_MAX_SESSION_RESOLVE=128``
in their deployment env now silently falls back to 2 instead
of getting 64. This is the round-1 reviewer's intent:
"Update the clamp test accordingly" + "the safe default,
never the permissive extreme." A startup log warning could
be added in a follow-up if a louder signal is wanted; this
PR keeps the silent-fallback contract consistent with the
other bad-input paths in the same helper.
- A profile that *had* ``HERMES_WEBUI_MAX_SESSION_RESOLVE=64``
in its ``.env`` and was relying on it to set the cap now
silently uses the operator-set value. This is the intended
behavior: the cap is a process-wide resource limit, not a
per-profile toggle. A profile-side log warning is a
follow-up if needed; the runtime env path now drops the
key, so the failure mode is "operator value wins" rather
than "first profile to load wins".
- #7656 — the original PR; this is round-3 of the same branch.
- #7421 — the original env-override feature.
- #4589 — the same shape ("operator-only, not per-profile")
for the isolated-profile key; the comment block on the new
protected key references the same pattern.
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