hermes_hermes.1 ran on a worker while run_one.yml ran its script on the loop
host. resolve_container_id.sh finds nothing node-locally on the manager, falls
through to the cluster-wide branch and returns the task's ContainerID, which
only the owning node's daemon knows, so `container exec` answered
`No such container: 65801ca259a1` twenty times over 116 seconds. Run
33785198875, job 100756596935.
Resolve the owning node and run there. meta/tests.yml gains
container_service_key for the two roles that exec into their own container; a
role without the key keeps the loop host, and role_tests returns the default
for a missing path, so absence is a polarity rather than an error.
The reset at run_one.yml:27-30 is unconditional and precedes every
delegate_to. Without it the first loop iteration dies with
'CLI_HOST_NODE' is undefined, because _cli_apps starts with a role that has no
key; the same task closes the fact leak that include_tasks leaves open between
iterations. The resolve include is gated on an explicit length check rather
than truthiness, or a keyless role would hang in resolve_host_cid's converge
wait, and it caps that wait at 30 x 2s instead of inheriting 600 x 2s: the
deploy is long finished by the time the CLI stage runs, so failing fast beats
waiting twenty minutes.
Staging, render and run all delegate. Delegating only the run would turn
`No such container` into `No such file or directory`, since the assets would
stay on the loop host. Both templates now carry CLI_LOCAL_CID: with the exec
on the owning node the id is node-local, so container_address's deferred
`$( ... )` is not needed, and it never survived `set -a && . test.env` anyway,
which evaluates it once at source time.
The stage directory is removed on the delegate too. tasks/main.yml clears it
without delegation, i.e. only on the loop host, and the task's own name calls
its contents decodable DB secrets.
Measured locally rather than argued: self-delegation leaves file, copy with
content, copy with src and shell byte-identical, including mode; the loop
reset gives keyless roles an empty container and keeps CLI_HOST_NODE on the
loop host across five iterations; and container_service_key resolves to
hermes, openclaw and empty strings through the same walk cli.timeout already
uses in production.
Not fixed, and named so it is not forgotten: web-app-joomla, web-app-yourls
and web-app-penpot exec from an IS_STACK_HOST gate without resolve_host_cid,
so a task of theirs landing on a worker hits the same error from the same
source.
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The contract check ran as an Ansible task in the middle of every provider deploy, and the two client checks ran the same way. A test that is part of the deploy cannot be run without deploying, cannot be re-run on its own, and reports its verdict as a deploy failure. Twenty-seven task files lose 491 lines to this.
It is now what it always was. Each provider ships files/test/test.sh, templates/test.env.j2 and meta/tests.yml, and test-e2e-cli stages one shared harness beside it: run.sh drives contract.sh in a throwaway container on the provider's own network, then isolation.sh for adapter-fronted providers. The read probe each provider offers moved from the calling task into meta/mcp.yml next to the allowlist it must satisfy, and the schema now rejects a read probe naming a tool outside that allowlist.
The bearer the test presents is the one a client resolves through mcp.credential, via the new mcp_client_bearer lookup over resolve_credential, which moved to utils.roles.applications.mcp so it is the same function mcp_servers renders every client connection with. The probe presented whatever the calling role passed, which for the fifteen adapter-fronted providers is a different secret than any client holds.
Sidecar isolation is read from the engine rather than measured inside the container, so it no longer needs a delegation to the node holding the task: attachment is compared by network name, which drops the gwbridge special case, and a swarm worker says it cannot measure instead of skipping silently.
Retrying is bounded by wall clock against MCP_DEADLINE_SECONDS, which scales through the same lookup('timeout') as the harness budget it has to stay under. A flag that is neither true nor false aborts rather than reading as off.
mcp-provider-probe becomes mcp-provider-cli-test: an enabled provider must ship the test rather than include the task. mcp-probe-bearer becomes mcp-adapter-bearer, tying ADAPTER_BEARER to the declared credential key now that no probe include carries it. A new integration test renders the shared env template for every provider through Ansible's own templar, so a later change to it breaks visibly instead of poisoning twenty deploys quietly.
Hermes and OpenClaw keep their client-side proof as CLI tests of their own.
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