Two changes to how this reads and behaves on real service repositories.
The fixture rules were stated to Hermes on every job, so it reasoned about
them out loud and that reasoning was published verbatim into service issue
trackers - ariadne/404 opened with 'The job is ariadne, not
hermes-triage-demo, so the reserved demo fixture classification and repair
action are forbidden'. That reads as though the system exists to serve a
demonstration. Those rules are now appended only for the fixture job, so a
real service is never told about them and cannot repeat them; the demo
classification is unreachable elsewhere by construction rather than by
instruction. The prompt also asks for language aimed at a maintainer who
knows nothing about how triage is configured, and points at the structured
test evidence first now that junit publishes it.
The duplicate guard refused a proposal whenever any repair pull request was
open, which meant one unreviewed fix blocked every later one across the
repository. It now enforces a ceiling instead, ARIADNE_HERMES_CODE_MAX_OPEN_PROPOSALS,
default 64. That is a review-capacity limit, not a correctness one: proposals
are cheap to make and expensive to read.
Auto-triage settings move to their own module; they had grown a section's
worth and pushed settings_sections.py past its size budget.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>