hermes(agent): accept bounded raw Jetson votes

services/hermes/plugins/auto-router/__init__.py

@@ -276,6 +276,17 @@ def _classifier_input(text: str) -> str:
     return text[:400] + "\n...\n" + text[-595:]
 
 
+def _parse_scalar_vote(content: Any, codes: tuple[str, ...]) -> str | None:
+    """Accept Ollama's raw or JSON-string rendering of one bounded vote."""
+    raw = str(content or "").strip()
+    try:
+        value = json.loads(raw)
+    except (TypeError, ValueError, json.JSONDecodeError):
+        value = raw
+    value = str(value or "").strip().upper()
+    return value if value in codes else None
+
+
 def _jetson_scalar(
     text: str, prompt: str, codes: tuple[str, ...], timeout: float
 ) -> tuple[str | None, int]:
@@ -300,12 +311,13 @@ def _jetson_scalar(
     try:
         with urllib.request.urlopen(request, timeout=timeout) as response:
             envelope = json.load(response)
-        value = json.loads(envelope.get("message", {}).get("content", ""))
+        value = _parse_scalar_vote(
+            envelope.get("message", {}).get("content", ""), codes
+        )
     except (OSError, TimeoutError, ValueError, TypeError, json.JSONDecodeError):
         return None, round((time.monotonic() - started) * 1000)
-    value = str(value or "").strip().upper()
     latency_ms = round((time.monotonic() - started) * 1000)
-    return (value if value in codes else None), latency_ms
+    return value, latency_ms
 
 
 def _validated_local_route(

testing/tests/test_hermes_auto_router.py

@@ -135,6 +135,15 @@ def test_local_classifier_accepts_only_bounded_route_decisions():
     assert (partial.provider, partial.effort) == ("codex", "medium")
 
 
+def test_scalar_vote_accepts_raw_and_json_strings_but_remains_bounded():
+    codes = ("C", "A")
+
+    assert router._parse_scalar_vote("C", codes) == "C"
+    assert router._parse_scalar_vote('"A"', codes) == "A"
+    assert router._parse_scalar_vote(" codex ", codes) is None
+    assert router._parse_scalar_vote("C\nA", codes) is None
+
+
 def test_jetson_requests_separate_bounded_provider_and_effort_votes(monkeypatch):
     calls = []