fix(hermes): latest version restricted write in our path#729
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Summary
What was happening
Neither file moves nor permissions would have helped — this isn't a filesystem/chown issue. The nousresearch/hermes-agent:v2026.7.1 image (pinned in the recent "bump image pins" commit) newly bakes HERMES_WRITE_SAFE_ROOT=/opt/data into the image env — an allowlist: when set, Hermes' file tools deny every write outside that root, with the (misleading) "protected system/credential file" error. v2026.5.7 didn't have this; I confirmed by diffing the two images' env and reading agent/file_safety.py inside the pinned image.
Upstream that default is coherent because their HERMES_HOME is /opt/data. But obol-stack relocates HERMES_HOME to /data/.hermes on the PVC and never touches /opt/data — so the safe root pointed at a directory nothing uses, and every write the agent attempted (/data/.hermes/workspace/.py, /tmp/.sh) was outside it and denied.
The fix
Override the env var to follow the relocated home, in both places that render Hermes pods: