From f4099319bb70934941612ed0eeb9390ec3d17545 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jenkins <jenkins@bstein.dev>
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2026 03:59:08 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] feat(hermes): extend agent tool budget

---
 services/hermes/agent-configmap.yaml  | 3 +++
 services/hermes/agent-deployment.yaml | 2 +-
 testing/tests/test_hermes_herdr.py    | 8 ++++++++
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/services/hermes/agent-configmap.yaml b/services/hermes/agent-configmap.yaml
index 7bdcb1039..f4752a3ab 100644
--- a/services/hermes/agent-configmap.yaml
+++ b/services/hermes/agent-configmap.yaml
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ data:
 
     agent:
       api_max_retries: 1
+      # The coordinator supervises long-running Herdr workers; give it enough
+      # room to inspect, steer, review, and synthesize without truncating.
+      max_turns: 180
       reasoning_effort: medium
 
     toolsets:
diff --git a/services/hermes/agent-deployment.yaml b/services/hermes/agent-deployment.yaml
index 0070f4606..19f6569c4 100644
--- a/services/hermes/agent-deployment.yaml
+++ b/services/hermes/agent-deployment.yaml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ spec:
         ai.bstein.dev/execution: Herdr-supervised Codex and Claude Code
         ai.bstein.dev/model-policy: Jetson-assisted AUTO routing, low through xhigh, cross-provider fallback
         ai.bstein.dev/placement: rpi5 preferred; Jetson deferred until state storage is available
-        ai.bstein.dev/config-rev: "20260809-route-outcomes"
+        ai.bstein.dev/config-rev: "20260809-agent-tool-budget"
         vault.hashicorp.com/agent-inject: "true"
         vault.hashicorp.com/role: hermes-agent
         vault.hashicorp.com/agent-inject-secret-anthropic-token: kv/data/atlas/hermes/agent-tokens
diff --git a/testing/tests/test_hermes_herdr.py b/testing/tests/test_hermes_herdr.py
index b474ab4e1..a565865fc 100644
--- a/testing/tests/test_hermes_herdr.py
+++ b/testing/tests/test_hermes_herdr.py
@@ -226,3 +226,11 @@ def test_agent_mounts_auto_router_into_both_hermes_runtimes():
         item for item in pod["volumes"] if item["name"] == "auto-router-plugin"
     )
     assert volume["configMap"]["name"] == "hermes-auto-router-plugin"
+
+
+def test_agent_coordinator_has_a_long_running_tool_budget():
+    configmap = yaml.safe_load((HERMES / "agent-configmap.yaml").read_text())
+    config = yaml.safe_load(configmap["data"]["config.yaml"])
+
+    assert config["agent"]["max_turns"] == 180
+    assert config["tool_loop_guardrails"]["hard_stop_enabled"] is True