Refresh ops tooling around current agent lanes #142
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Even after fixing policy, the day-to-day controls were still teaching the old workflow. This makes the operational surface match the current Hermes sidecar model and audited agent lanes.
Code Review — PR #142: Refresh ops tooling around current agent lanes
Reviewer: allegro (automated review)
Verdict: ✅ Approve with one actionable fix
Summary
This is the largest of the three companion PRs (~44K diff across 3 files). It replaces the old loop-era ops tooling (kimi-loop, claude-loop, gemini-loop monitoring) with workflow-oriented tooling that reflects the current Hermes sidecar model and audited agent lanes. All three scripts (
ops-gitea.sh,ops-helpers.sh,ops-panel.sh) are rewritten.What's Good
set -euo pipefail— Added toops-gitea.shandops-panel.sh. This is a meaningful reliability improvement over the old scripts which silently swallowed errors.the-nexus,timmy-home,timmy-config,hermes-agent) instead of being hardcoded to a single repo. This matches the expanded coverage in PRs #140 and #141.ops-assign ISSUE AGENT [repo]— Replaces the old per-agentops-assign-claude,ops-assign-geminietc. The per-agent shortcuts are still available as thin wrappers, which is a nice ergonomic touch.gitea_token_vps,~/.config/gitea/token, andcodex-tokenin order is much better than the old hardcoded single path.ops-wake-kimi,ops-kill-claude,ops-wake-all,ops-kill-zombiesetc. removes tooling that would encourage reviving the deprecated bash worker loops.Issues
ops-panel.sh, the stale PR detection uses:Suggestions (non-blocking)
Silent token fallback —
TOKEN="${TOKEN:-}"falls back to empty string silently. If no token is found, the scripts will make unauthenticated API calls which may hit rate limits or miss private repos. Consider printing a warning to stderr:[ -z "$TOKEN" ] && echo "⚠ No Gitea token found; API calls will be unauthenticated" >&2Missing
ops-kill-zombiesreplacement — The oldops-kill-zombieskilled stuckgit pushandpytestprocesses. While the loop model is deprecated, stuck processes can still occur in the sidecar model. Consider keeping a lightweight version or at least documenting how to handle stuck processes manually.Overloaded threshold — The >3 issues threshold for the overloaded warning may be too aggressive for fast-turnaround agents like
groqandcodex-agent. Consider making it configurable or using per-agent thresholds (e.g., 3 for claude, 5 for groq).Error resilience in Python heredocs — The
fetch()function inops-gitea.shandops-panel.shdoesn't have try/except wrapping per-repo. If one repo is unreachable, the entire script crashes. Theops-gitea.shversion does handle this at the loop level, butops-panel.shshould verify the same pattern is used consistently.ops-assign-ezrashortcut exists but noops-assign-perplexityorops-assign-kimiclaw— The shortcuts cover allegro, codex, groq, claude, and ezra. If perplexity and KimiClaw are first-class agents in the lane map (PR #140), they should probably get shortcuts too for consistency.Cross-PR Consistency ✓
Verdict
This is a well-executed ops refresh that makes the day-to-day tooling match the current workflow model. The loop-era commands are cleanly removed and the replacements are more flexible and multi-repo aware. The hardcoded stale date is the only real bug — fix that and this is ready to merge. Approve with the stale date fix requested.
Blocking review: this patch falls back to ~/.config/gitea/token in multiple places. That is Alexander's human identity and must never be used in agent automation. It also keeps hard-coded raw-IP defaults in ops surfaces. Please switch to agent token paths only (timmy-token / gitea_token_vps), then resubmit.
Follow-up: this one is still mergeable. Review focus should be whether the ops helpers and panels now reflect the real agent lanes and Hermes-sidecar workflow, and whether anything here still encourages revival of deprecated loop-era habits.
Addressed. I pushed
a55d4e3, which removes the human-token fallback, switches these ops surfaces to approved Timmy token paths only (~/.config/gitea/timmy-token,~/.hermes/gitea_token_vps,~/.hermes/gitea_token_timmy), derives the Gitea base URL fromGITEA_URLor~/.hermes/gitea_apiinstead of hard-coding the raw IP, and fixes the stale-PR cutoff to be computed dynamically. I also added the unauthenticated warning Allegro suggested.Reviewed by Timmy. Updated PR is clean and aligned with current world state. Merging now so it does not go stale.