Three fixes to how luna's git/tea credentials are set up on mars, all found
against the running instance on 2026-08-23.
Drop the host-side clone. hermes-agent-prepare-dirs used to clone this repo
into ${hermesHome}/workspace/homelab, but nothing ever told luna at runtime
that it was there — she self-manages config/profiles/memories, so a path
baked into this file never reached her. She searched /opt/data/homelab and
/workspace, found neither, and concluded she had no repo at all. The
credentials are what actually grant access; any checkout is hers to make
anywhere inside HERMES_WRITE_SAFE_ROOT. The stale directory left by the old
version is deliberately not cleaned up, just unmanaged from here on.
Point credential.helper at the CONTAINER's path. It was written as the host
path (${hermesHome}/.git-credentials), which does not exist inside the
container where git actually reads the config — broken this way from 3c1f3e5
until now. Nothing host-side consumes those credentials any more, so the
container's view is the only one that has to be right; added `containerHome`
to make the distinction explicit at the point of use.
Chown what the oneshot writes. The image's cont-init only chowns the top
level of hermesHome and its own state — it does not recurse into the
root-owned 0600 files this unit drops there (.git-credentials, and tea's
config.yml, which tea also writes 0600), even though it runs afterwards. The
symptom was not an error but an absence: git reported no credential helper
and tea no login. Uses `if` rather than `[ -d x ] && chown` because under
`set -e` a false test on the left of an && list aborts the unit.
gitea.nix carries the matching comment updates: the luna provisioning unit is
server-side only, and her token needs write:repository,write:issue,read:user.
write:issue is the one that is easy to miss — a pull request IS an issue in
gitea's data model, so /pulls endpoints gate on the issue scope category and
`tea pr create` fails with write:repository alone even though clone, fetch
and push all work.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01S94o42aQ8VkBmEWvDem5xa
The relay was forwarding X-Gitea-Event and re-signing the body into the
deprecated generic-V1 X-Webhook-Signature header. Neither is something
Hermes acts on, which left the PR's core premise — "Hermes owns event
selection" — impossible to reach:
- Hermes reads the event name only from X-GitHub-Event/X-GitLab-Event,
then payload event_type/type, then falls back to the literal string
"unknown" (gateway/platforms/webhook.py). Gitea sends X-Gitea-Event and
no such payload key, so every delivery arrived as "unknown" and
`hermes webhook subscribe --events ...` could never select anything.
- Gitea's addDefaultHeaders() already signs every webhook type with
X-Hub-Signature-256 in GitHub's exact format, and Hermes accepts that
header on any route with no per-route provider gating. Re-signing into
V1 was both redundant and on a deprecated path.
So the relay now verifies the signature (accepting either X-Hub-Signature-256
or X-Gitea-Signature), forwards body and signature byte-for-byte, and copies
the one header Hermes actually needs. Authentication alone never justified
this service; that header copy does, and the module comment now says so.
Also fixed:
- gitea-hermes-webhook-provision had no API readiness wait, unlike both
sibling units in the same file. After=gitea.service does not mean gitea
is serving HTTP, so under `set -e` a Type=oneshot with no Restart= would
fail on first boot and stay failed, leaving the webhook unregistered.
- podman-hermes-agent added to the secret's restartUnits. The secret
reaches the container only via sops.templates, whose rendered path never
changes, so systemd would not restart the container when the secret was
first added — hermes-agent-webhook-route then read an empty value back
out of it and subscribed with an empty secret.
- Webhook provisioning passes the request body to curl on stdin rather
than in argv, keeping the shared secret out of /proc/<pid>/cmdline.
- Missing Content-Length now returns 411 rather than 413; dropped the
unreachable non-2xx branch (urlopen raises on non-2xx); env-var secret
fallback is stripped to match the credential-file path.
Adds gitea-hermes-webhook-relay-test.py, which drives the real relay over
real HTTP against a stub Hermes and covers the header copy as a regression
test. Both nixosConfigurations still evaluate.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01S94o42aQ8VkBmEWvDem5xa
Provisions a dedicated PR-tier gitea account (luna) with branch protection
restricting master push/merge/approve to darman only, then wires git and
tea directly into the hermes-agent container (mounted from the host's Nix
store, credential-store + tea login set up by a host-side prepare oneshot,
repo cloned inside Hermes's own writable sandbox root at
/opt/data/workspace/homelab). Replaces an earlier standalone MCP-server
approach, scrapped in favor of direct CLI access for simplicity.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011FHr5ug9pu8q4XPrRkFnzJ
darman's own podman is rootless while the container runs under root's
(system) podman, so plain `podman exec` couldn't see it. Alias runs it
with sudo against the right socket.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Du1WQRk1F8DenrPhf8TofF
podman-hermes-agent.service RequiresMountsFor /mnt/jupiter, but the mount
option copied from terra's (read-only, nothing depends on it) browsing
mount included x-systemd.idle-timeout=60 — confirmed on real hardware,
this killed the container ~60-70s after every start with no crash or
error, just an idle auto-unmount taking the dependent service down with
it. Keep the lazy x-systemd.automount (so boot doesn't stall if jupiter's
down) but drop the timeout now that something needs the mount to persist.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011FHr5ug9pu8q4XPrRkFnzJ
New on-site host mars runs Hermes Agent as its sole service: joins the
tailnet, mounts jupiter's samba share at /mnt/jupiter (doubling as
Hermes's shared dropbox), and hosts state locally under /var/lib/hermes.
Same Authentik OIDC app/Telegram bot as before, just relocated — neptun's
hermes.mgaction.town vhost now points at mars.orbit.sol instead of jupiter.
hosts/jupiter/hermes-agent.nix and its three sops secrets are removed;
jupiter's Caddy vhost for it is gone too. Also refreshes tailscale_authkey
across all hosts and fixes two stale "erik@laptop" keys in flake.nix's
kexec/installer-iso images (leftover from a previous laptop, already
swapped out of common.nix back in 2fd5752) to darman@terra.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011FHr5ug9pu8q4XPrRkFnzJ
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