Summary

New package @world2agent/hermes-sensor-bridge — an independent local supervisor daemon that hosts W2A sensor subprocesses and ships their signals into Hermes Agent via the gateway's native webhook subscriptions. Sibling of claude-code-channel, but Hermes-shaped (out-of-process bridge, fresh AIAgent run per signal, no MCP).

End-to-end exercised against a real hermes gateway run with @world2agent/sensor-hackernews: real HN signals through sensor → supervisor → Hermes → AIAgent — HMAC verified, X-Request-ID dedup verified, real LLM responses generated.

Architecture (high level)

sensor child process              supervisor (parent)              hermes gateway
─────────────────────             ─────────────────────            ──────────────
startSensor + SDK                 read child.stdout line-by-line   /webhooks/<name>
stdoutTransport()       ───→      parse → POST(body, headers)  ──→ HMAC + X-Request-ID
                                  with retry on 5xx/network         dedup, then
                                                                    AIAgent.run_conversation
                                                                    with --skills loaded

Sensor child has zero Hermes knowledge — it's a stock startSensor + SDK stdoutTransport. All Hermes-specific work (HMAC, X-Request-ID, prompt body shape, HTTP retries, route subscription, platform bootstrap) lives in the supervisor. Same runner can be reused by future channels.

What this PR adds

• src/runner/: bin that runs one sensor and writes signals to stdout, logs to stderr.
• src/supervisor/: daemon. Spawns/monitors runners, parses stdout signals, POSTs to Hermes with HMAC + X-Request-ID, retries on 5xx/network. Exposes 127.0.0.1 control HTTP for reload/list/health.
• src/cli/: world2agent-hermes user CLI — start/stop/status/list/add/remove/logs plus hermes-init.
• skills/world2agent-manage/: agent-facing skill wrapping the CLI for natural-language sensor management.
• hermes-init (auto-called by add): writes a marker-fenced managed platforms.webhook block to ~/.hermes/config.yaml and WEBHOOK_* to ~/.hermes/.env. Idempotent. Refuses to merge into a hand-managed top-level platforms: block.
• e2e/: smoke tests for the bootstrap helper (4 states) and delivery worker (HMAC raw hex, X-Request-ID, body shape, 4xx fail-fast, 5xx retry).

Dependencies

• @world2agent/sdk@0.1.0-alpha.1 (already published). No SDK changes required for this PR — bridge uses existing startSensor, FileSensorStore, stdoutTransport, packageToSkillId.
• Runtime needs the hermes CLI on PATH for add/remove (which shell out to hermes webhook subscribe / unsubscribe).

Status: WIP

Codex review fed back several issues; most are addressed in this branch:

• ✅ parseSubscribeOutput no longer synthesizes a default subscription name; caller falls back to the name it requested.
• ✅ Manifest preserves user-provided skill_id (was previously overridden by packageToSkillId(pkg) in normalize/parse).
• ✅ NO_RESTART_EXIT_CODES no longer lists exit 13 (the runner has no startup self-test that produces it; was dead-code).
• ✅ ensureHermesWebhookEnabled heals .env even when config.yaml already says enabled (partial-state recovery).
• ✅ add now passes the bridge HMAC secret through to hermes-init so Hermes's global WEBHOOK_SECRET matches ~/.world2agent/.hmac_secret on first install.

Open items for follow-up:

• Manifest schema collision if another in-process consumer (e.g. an OpenClaw plugin spike) writes to ~/.world2agent/sensors.json with a different shape (no webhook_url). The bridge currently rejects on parse — needs a per-channel namespace or owner key.
• Interactive add (Q&A driven by the sensor's SETUP.md) is not implemented; --config-file <path> is required for now. Bridge writes a generic handler skill in this case rather than the sensor-specific one.
• Add explicit Vitest suite (currently only node e2e/*.mjs smoke tests).

Test plan

• pnpm run build (TypeScript strict, ESM)
• node e2e/test-ensure-hermes-webhook.mjs (23/23 PASS — fresh / idempotent / pre-enabled / unmanaged-refuses / partial-heal / nested-agent.platforms-ignored / skill_id round-trip)
• node e2e/test-delivery.mjs (16/16 PASS — happy path, 4xx fail-fast, 5xx retry exhaust, 5xx-then-200)
• Real E2E against hermes gateway run with @world2agent/sensor-hackernews: 9 real signals delivered with HTTP 202, X-Request-ID = signal.signal_id, distinct deliveries triggered AIAgent runs producing real LLM responses (kimi-k2.6 + gemini-3-flash-preview)
• CI wiring (out of scope for this PR)
• Long-running soak (multi-day) with at least one production sensor

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