fix(hermes): recover stale coordinator panes

services/hermes/agent-deployment.yaml

@@ -449,7 +449,21 @@ spec:
               done
               pane_file=/opt/data/herdr/coordinator-pane-id
               pane="$(cat "${pane_file}" 2>/dev/null || true)"
-              if [ -z "${pane}" ] || ! herdr pane get "${pane}" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+              pane_live=no
+              if [ -n "${pane}" ]; then
+                for attempt in $(seq 1 20); do
+                  if herdr pane process-info --pane "${pane}" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+                    pane_live=yes
+                    break
+                  fi
+                  sleep 1
+                done
+              fi
+              if [ "${pane_live}" != "yes" ]; then
+                if [ -n "${pane}" ]; then
+                  workspace="${pane%%:*}"
+                  herdr workspace close "${workspace}" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+                fi
                 created="$(herdr workspace create \
                   --cwd /opt/data/workspace \
                   --label coordinator \
@@ -466,7 +480,10 @@ spec:
               coordinator_running="$(printf '%s' "${process_info}" | /opt/hermes/.venv/bin/python -c \
                 'import json,sys; processes=json.load(sys.stdin)["result"]["process_info"].get("foreground_processes", []); print("yes" if any("hermes" in " ".join(str(p.get(k) or "") for k in ("name", "argv0", "cmdline")) for p in processes) else "no")')"
               if [ "${coordinator_running}" != "yes" ]; then
-                herdr pane run "${pane}" /opt/hermes/.venv/bin/hermes
+                herdr agent start coordinator \
+                  --kind hermes \
+                  --pane "${pane}" \
+                  --timeout 60000
               fi
               wait "${server_pid}"
           env:

testing/tests/test_hermes_herdr.py

@@ -199,6 +199,13 @@ def test_agent_installs_hermes_integration_before_startup():
         env = {item["name"]: item["value"] for item in containers[name]["env"]}
         assert "/opt/hermes/.venv/bin" in env["PATH"].split(":")
 
+    server_command = containers["herdr-server"]["command"][-1]
+    assert 'herdr pane process-info --pane "${pane}"' in server_command
+    assert 'herdr workspace close "${workspace}"' in server_command
+    assert "herdr agent start coordinator" in server_command
+    assert "--kind hermes" in server_command
+    assert "--timeout 60000" in server_command
+
 
 def test_agent_mounts_auto_router_into_both_hermes_runtimes():
     deployment = yaml.safe_load((HERMES / "agent-deployment.yaml").read_text())