* fix: wire auto_install_agent_deps into server.py startup; add api/startup.py to ARCHITECTURE.md
* fix(tests): kill stale process on test port before server start in conftest
Stale servers left by QA harness runs (ports 8792/8793 etc.) or prior
test sessions could interfere with conftest starting its own server on
TEST_PORT (8788). If the port was already occupied, _wait_for_server
hit the wrong server and tests got unexpected 404s/500s, failing
non-deterministically — the 'conftest isolation issue' seen this session.
Fix: run fuser -k on TEST_PORT before launching the new server process,
with a 0.5s sleep for port release. The full suite now runs 571/571
reliably regardless of what other servers were previously active.
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Co-authored-by: Nathan Esquenazi <nesquena@gmail.com>
When running tests without hermes-agent, 24 tests that depend on cron,
skills, approval, or agent backend modules now skip cleanly instead of
failing with 500 errors.
Detection: conftest.py checks if the agent dir exists and if cron.jobs
and tools.skills_tool are importable. When not available, an explicit
list of 24 test names is auto-marked with pytest.mark.skip.
Result:
- Without agent: 400 passed, 24 skipped, 0 failed
- With agent: all 424 tests run normally (skip logic is a no-op)
A warning banner prints at collection time:
"hermes-agent not found — 24 agent-dependent tests will be skipped"
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
