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# Hermes Automated Triage Demo — Runbook
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How to arm, run, watch, and roll back the automated failure-to-repair demo.
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Architecture background: `knowledge/hermes-automated-triage-24h-plan.md`.
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## What the loop does
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```text
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You arm the failure (SEED_FAILURE=true)
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-> Jenkins job hermes-triage-demo fails (fixture reads "unhealthy")
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-> test-runner pod also writes the incident JSON to stdout
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(Fluent Bit ships it to OpenSearch kube-*)
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-> Ariadne polls the job every minute, opens incident <job>/<build>
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-> Ariadne bundles Jenkins evidence + bounded OpenSearch excerpts
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-> Ariadne calls the Hermes Agent API (/v1/runs) with
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$triage-titan-test-failures
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-> Hermes returns schema-valid diagnosis + requested_action
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-> Ariadne authorizes (nine gates) and, if remediation is enabled,
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creates Job hermes-demo-repair-<build> (writes "healthy")
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-> Ariadne triggers ONE rebuild with SEED_FAILURE=false
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-> rebuild passes -> incident resolved
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Anything else -> human_required metric -> vmalert HermesTriageHumanRequired
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```
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## Arming the demo
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Jenkins UI: `https://ci.bstein.dev/job/hermes-triage-demo/` → *Build with
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Parameters* → check `SEED_FAILURE` → Build.
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CLI (any Jenkins user API token):
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```bash
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curl -u <user>:<token> -X POST \
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"https://ci.bstein.dev/job/hermes-triage-demo/buildWithParameters?SEED_FAILURE=true"
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```
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That is the only manual step. Everything after the red build is automatic.
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## Expected timings (measured live, first full loop 2026-08-05)
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- Armed → seeded build red: **1m49s** (mostly agent-pod scheduling; longer
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if the Jenkins agent capacity of 5 is busy with other CI builds).
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- Red → repair Job succeeded: **1m15s** (≤60 s detection tick + ~16 s
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Hermes diagnosis + authorization + repair pod).
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- Repair → rebuild green: **32s**.
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- Green → incident resolved: **24s** (next detection tick).
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- Total armed-to-resolved: **4m00s**. Budgeted Hermes timeout is 420 s;
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observed diagnosis runs were 15–21 s on gpt-5.6-terra. The only "silent"
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phases are the two Jenkins agent-pod waits.
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## Watching it live
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- Jenkins: `https://ci.bstein.dev/job/hermes-triage-demo/` (red build N,
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then green build N+1 with `SEED_FAILURE=false`).
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- Ariadne incident state:
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`GET http://ariadne.maintenance/api/internal/audit/events` (in-cluster) or
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`/api/admin/audit/events` (Keycloak JWT) — event types
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`hermes_autotriage_incident`, `hermes_autotriage_diagnosis`,
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`hermes_autotriage_action`. Status flow:
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`detected → diagnosed → repairing → awaiting_rebuild → resolved`.
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- Metrics (VictoriaMetrics / Grafana Explore):
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`ariadne_hermes_triage_incident{jenkins_job="hermes-triage-demo"}`,
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`ariadne_hermes_triage_action_total`,
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`ariadne_hermes_triage_duration_seconds`.
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- Repair evidence: `kubectl -n hermes-triage-demo get jobs` shows
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`hermes-demo-test-<N>` (failed) and `hermes-demo-repair-<N>` (succeeded);
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both TTL-clean after 1 h.
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- Hermes side: the run appears in the dashboard at
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`https://agent.bstein.dev` (session/run history).
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- Escalation path: alert `HermesTriageHumanRequired` in vmalert
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(`vmalert-atlas-availability` deployment, 1 m interval, `for: 2m`)
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fires to Alertmanager for any `human_required` incident. Gauges are
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republished every tick from stored incident state (restart-safe), and
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the alert self-clears once a newer build of the same job is green.
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Note: Alertmanager's default receiver is currently null — the alert is
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visible in vmalert/Alertmanager/Grafana but pushes no notification.
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## Demonstrating safe escalation (second path)
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Any failure that does not match the demo-fixture signature — or any
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invalid/low-confidence/unknown-action Hermes response — ends as
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`status="human_required"` with **no mutation**. The simplest live demo:
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temporarily set `ARIADNE_HERMES_AUTOREMEDIATION_ENABLED=false` (see below)
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and arm the failure; Ariadne diagnoses fully but executes nothing, and the
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alert fires instead.
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## Kill switch and rollback
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- Instant behavioral off-switch (Flux-managed, in
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`services/maintenance/apps/ariadne-deployment.yaml`):
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`ARIADNE_HERMES_AUTOREMEDIATION_ENABLED=false` → diagnose-only.
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`ARIADNE_HERMES_AUTOTRIAGE_ENABLED=false` → fully off.
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- The automatic loop can only ever: create Jobs named
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`hermes-demo-repair-*` in namespace `hermes-triage-demo`, and trigger
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rebuilds of allowlisted jobs (`ARIADNE_HERMES_AUTOTRIAGE_JOB_ALLOWLIST`,
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currently `hermes-triage-demo` only). One action + one rebuild per
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incident, ever (storage-backed idempotency).
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- Full teardown: remove `hermes-triage-demo` from
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`clusters/atlas/flux-system/applications/kustomization.yaml` (Flux prunes
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the namespace) and delete the `pipelineJob('hermes-triage-demo')` block
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from `services/jenkins/configmap-jcasc.yaml`.
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## Credentials
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- Ariadne → Hermes: `Authorization: Bearer` key shared via the
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`hermes-api-server-key` Secret present in both `hermes` and `maintenance`
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namespaces (Hermes's init container seeds it into the persistent `.env`).
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NOTE: currently manually created (Vault migration pending — see plan
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handoff); rotating = write new value to both Secrets, restart hermes
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deployment and ariadne deployment.
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- Ariadne → Jenkins: existing `JENKINS_API_USER/TOKEN` from Vault
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(`atlas/maintenance/ariadne-db`).
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